Harvest Supper

The date for the Harvest Supper has been changed due to the unavailability of St. Thomas Church Hall to Friday 29th October 2010.

Application forms for this event will be included in the next Newsletter which will be available in early September

Report on Quiz Walk

U3A Annual Quiz walk in Bradford on Avon on May 11th 2010

35 members turned out to walk the streets of Bradford on Avon on a morning which threatened rain, but improved as the day progressed. This was good, because managing a quiz with 6 sheets of computer printed paper in a drizzle (as has happened some years) is not easy.

This year there were 38 questions bases on the town, its history and environment, plus 20 photographs to be identified. The questions varied from the mundane (What is Bradford’s postcode?) to the much more obscure (What was a scribbling horse?). Perhaps the most interesting question was the last. It concerned half of the masterpiece by Quentin Metsys recently discovered in Holy Trinity Church. Why only a half? The explanation is that the painting originally had included portraits of both Christ and the Virgin. It had been cut in two, with the Christ hanging unrecognised in the church for over seventy years. The setters hoped that there were more questions than could be answered in the available time before lunch, in order to minimise the chance of the result being a tie, and in fact succeeded this year, but only just.

At lunchtime we gathered at the Fat Fowl for a leisurely meal, and the papers were marked between courses, with less controversy than has sometimes been the case. The winners, with a remarkable 49 out of a possible 58 marks, were Virginia and David. The runners-up, with 47 marks, were the ‘3 little maids’ Nicky, Ann and Jackie, who were last year’s winners.

About the Website

Welcome to the Wells U3A brand new website.

The website is at the moment very simple, not many pictures nor embellishments yet for example, but it contains the up to date information on the main activities of our U3A. In due course more pages will be added for those Groups that send in reports and photos of their activities. Pages will be enhanced and more features added.

We ask that Group Leaders read the Group page and send in updates and amendments regularly to the webmaster at this website.

We will be developing the website over the coming months, so please do forgive us if you happen to try to access the site when development work is being carrried out and the site is off line.