Point Of Contact- Heather

Should you be new to our u3a, then it may be helpful for you to know that we are not a walking group – some of us can't walk too far, or too fast, or would prefer not to walk up hills.

Nor are we a camera group – the main intention is not to tell members how to make better use of their cameras, with their many functions, although in the spirit of all our Groups we will pool our shared knowledge. We find that photos taken with a mobile 'phone can compare very favourably with photos taken with more specialised equipment!

We go on our trips out by public transport.

If you would like to join us for an enjoyable stroll in pleasant company, camera in hand, which invariably also includes a “lunch stop”, with our photos shared between members of the Group with the help of Flickr, please contact me.

Heather

PROGRAMME FOR 2026

May 28th - Dartington Hall Gardens by bus.

June 11th - Paignton by bus. Timings to be confirmed.

June 25th - The Barbican and Mayflower Museum. Buses and Lunch.

July 23rd - Castle Drogo By car, sorry already full.

August 20th - Summer Social - back to Mount Edgcumbe. Buses/Ferry.

Sep. 10th - Looe. Hopefully by car.

Sept 24th - Tavistock.

Oct 7th - Lukesland. Necessarily by car. To be further discussed at Summer Social.

Nov 26th - Christmas Social and planning, at St Mary's Church Hall. Refreshments provided by ourselves.

Having put together a Programme which would take us to pastures old and new, we were thwarted by the weather!

Eight of us went to Dartington Hall Gardens in April – plenty of bluebells and wild garlic, and some beautifully-coloured azaleas, together with the Handkerchief Tree.
Our proposed trip to Dartmouth by bus was cancelled, because the journey to Dartmouth using public transport is now quite convoluted since the road at Torcross was destroyed in the winter storms.

Due to members' other commitments, there were only four of us for a proposed trip to Totnes, by bus. On this visit I had intended taking the Group to visit Totnes Guildhall. I decided that I would rather postpone this to another day, or even year, in the hope that next time it is scheduled there will be more of us joining the trip to the Guildhall. Instead we returned to the Gardens at Dartington Hall! Beautiful birdsong, some of the plants in the Summer Border were in flower, with just a few flowers on the Tulip Tree.

Our most recent outing, the day after the monsoon hit, was due to be to Paignton, by bus. Again there were only four of us for this trip, and so I changed the proposed destination to Antony House. The Day Lily Garden, which forms part of the Carew-Pole's private quarters, was being opened for just two weeks this year to allow the public to see the wonderful display of Day Lilies, of which there were 600 varieties in the Garden. But we were rained-off!

Over the coming weeks we have proposed visits to Plymouth Barbican & The Mayflower Museum; Castle Drogo; our Summer Social at Mount Edgcumbe; Looe; Tavistock; and Lukesland.

Heather Lamble, Group Leader.