U3A Vall del Pop - Easter/ spring general assembly
DESPITE our best laid plans, for a speaker to encourage us to get out into our garden, Covid strikes and Derek Lindley’s talk had to be cancelled until later in the year.
The Easter celebratory theme however was retained with Bill White starting the entertainment by giving us a range of popular tunes on his keyboard as we assembled. The ‘Let’s Sing Together’ group stepped into Derek’s slot and regaled us with four of the most popular songs from their repertory and had us all singing along, to ourselves, and waving to ‘Amarillo’, ‘Day Dream Believer’, ‘Annie’s Song’ and ‘Delilah’. Sandra Welham, the group leader, said if we enjoyed that then why not join them each Monday at practice – as Bob Welham said: "You don’t have to be able to sing – although it could be helpful, as the main aim is to have fun!"
The ’egg-citing’ egg decoration competition had 12 entries, providing Mary Wood, the cake decoration queen of our U3A, with some head scratching to decide the best three entries. As these were announced we discovered, in reverse order, the winners were: third Dolly Sockett, second Sandra Welham and first Margaret Taylor (prize collected by Sally Ellis).
As a sure sign that summer is coming the TCET were pleased to remind us of their forthcoming events programme:
Monday, April 25 – Zenia Boulevard shopping trip Wednesday, May 18 – Wine tasting at Los Amigos, Alcalalí Tuesday, May 24 Oceanographic & Bioparc Valencia trip
Friday, June 3 – Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Afternoon Tea at Victoria’s Parcent Wednesday, June 8 – Night with 20/20 band at Can Tallarina.
Finally, Bob reminded us that at the general assembly on Thursday May 5, our speaker will be Alan Oliver talking about the Franco Years with Pam Brooks and Jayne Nuttal Blake talking about their new project ‘Cancer Care the Valleys’.
So a busy early summer programme - see our website for further information about U3A Vall del Pop, our interest groups, meetings and other trips - www.u3avalldelpop.com