Saturday Morning Walking Group
Well done to the 15 hardy souls who braved the weather to come along to the Bournemouth Gardens.

We were all rewarded with beautiful colourful trees, some blue skies and only a modest amount of rain! We walked all the way from Coy Pond through the Upper and Lower Gardens to the Pier. After a welcome cup of coffee we made our way back through the gardens.

The rest of you really don’t know what you missed – very much a case of fortune favours the brave!
Clare.

August  skittle winners were
Heather Wales top scorer , this went to a knock out with Tom Alexander who narrowly lost out to Heather.

Jenny Daniel won the wooden spoon
Sandra Alexander won the killer game
Narendra, Brenda and Carole won the final team game

October

Todays skittles was a success once more
Here are the winners
Overall winner was Judith Miles
Wooden spoon went to Hilary Moody
Our killer champion was Ron Cox
And the team winners were Sandra Dixon, Debbie Our skittle putter upper and Helen another helper
Next skittles event will be in February half term, look out for more details

The first of our new FU3A Travellers’ Tales presentations was be by John Muggleton. 

John recounted  the highly entertaining story of a road trip that he and his wife made round California in the 70s. 

Experiences fr0m the Golden Gate Bridge  to a motel near Las Vegas!   Thanks john what fun you had. 

30 members of the FU3A Saturday Walk Group turned out for the first walk of the term on Saturday 7th October.  It was a beautiful day, plenty of sunshine and a really pleasant day for a ramble.  The 360 degree view from the flat top of the hill was excellent as the early morning mist had melted away. 

The return walk back down the hill featured a look at the remains of the concrete footings of buildings used during WW2 to house members of the armed forces who manned the anti-aircraft guns, the radar and the search lights that helped to defend not only RAF Hurn but Ibsley and the other RAF Bases in the New Forest, below. (see photo)

Thanks were given to Clare Clayton for her work in organising the walk.  Some members went on to take coffee at the Avon Causeway Hotel just a few yards down the road.

Due to illness our advertised speak was unable to attend.

We were very lucky to find a replacement speaker at short notice in Kevin Patience who came along to the Barrington Centre and spoke about the history of Aviation over Poole Bay. 

His talk  featured the history of flying from the earliest times through to WW2 and later the International B.O.A.C Flying Boats terminal which made this area busier than Heathrow Airport at the time.

There were 76 FU3A members present including many of our new members, who all enjoyed Kevin’s very interesting talk.