<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555</id><updated>2011-12-06T00:26:22.384Z</updated><title type='text'>Mansfield and District U3A Noticeboard</title><subtitle type='html'>News about Mansfield and District University of the Third Age.

How we enjoy active retirement through learning new skills in our Third Age - and share our own with other seniors in Nottinghamshire through participation in interest groups.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>57</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-7894886231298841937</id><published>2011-12-06T00:24:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-06T00:26:22.393Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;big style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Christmas Lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;5th December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;big style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="text-align: left; width: 100px;"&gt;              &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                  &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Mansfield U3A christmas Lunch 2011" src="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/images/MAnsfield%20U3A%20Christmas%20Lunch%202011.jpg" style="height: 500px; width: 500px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                  &lt;/td&gt;                  &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;David&lt;br /&gt;Ling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                  &lt;/td&gt;                &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;            &lt;/table&gt;&lt;big style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Click &lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;big style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/sets/72157628293191231/detail/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/sets/72157627449858522/detail/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;to see &lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;big style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;or print&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/sets/72157627813783597/detail/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;more of this event.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;big style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;small&gt; &lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;(Opens in a new&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;big style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;small&gt; window.)&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;THE SUN didn't quite shine on our Christmas lunch this year but thesnow-drifts of 2010 were but a distant memory for Norma Shillinglaw andthe big turn-out of Mansfield U3A members and guests who appreciatedher organisation and the skills of the kitchen team and all the staffat the Oakham Suite.&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;A good crowd, good food, good drinks, good service and good company so what's more to say?&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;Happy Christmas everyone!&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;small&gt;David Ling&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-7894886231298841937?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/7894886231298841937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-lunch-5th-december-david-ling.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7894886231298841937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7894886231298841937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-lunch-5th-december-david-ling.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-4479815439081870821</id><published>2011-11-22T22:08:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-11-22T22:13:44.822Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;As refurbishment of the St John Centre Hall will not be finished in time for us to use it for the Scottish-themed New Year Social on 7th January it will be held at the Beacon Centre on Wood Street instead.&amp;nbsp; This is part of St John's Church and used to be&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;church hall. See &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/whatson.htm" target="_blank"&gt;What's On&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-4479815439081870821?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/4479815439081870821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/11/as-refurbishment-of-st-john-centre-hall.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/4479815439081870821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/4479815439081870821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/11/as-refurbishment-of-st-john-centre-hall.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-771715439290486651</id><published>2011-11-20T15:07:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-11-20T15:10:32.700Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rsqUOPejKsg/TskYQ-gG6fI/AAAAAAAAAEA/b1Ao77N49N4/s1600/Barker%2527s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="179" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rsqUOPejKsg/TskYQ-gG6fI/AAAAAAAAAEA/b1Ao77N49N4/s320/Barker%2527s.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/lunches.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Luncheon Club&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/photo_albums.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Photo Albums&lt;/a&gt; have been updated with photos of the lunch at Barker's, Clumber Park, last week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-771715439290486651?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/771715439290486651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/11/luncheon-club-and-photo-albums-have.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/771715439290486651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/771715439290486651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/11/luncheon-club-and-photo-albums-have.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rsqUOPejKsg/TskYQ-gG6fI/AAAAAAAAAEA/b1Ao77N49N4/s72-c/Barker%2527s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-3078179250048586809</id><published>2011-11-18T16:42:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-11-18T16:58:03.507Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>An updated itinerary for the Mansfield U3A holiday by air to Croatia in September and October 2012 has been published on &lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Holidays&lt;/a&gt;; provisional plans for visits to the Malvern Spring Show, Castle Howard and Renishaw&amp;nbsp; Hall have been published on &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardens.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Garden Visits&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/puddingclub.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Pudding Club&lt;/a&gt; and the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardening.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Gardening&lt;/a&gt; Group have both published 2012 meeting dates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-3078179250048586809?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/3078179250048586809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/11/updated-itinerary-for-mansfield-u3a.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3078179250048586809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3078179250048586809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/11/updated-itinerary-for-mansfield-u3a.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-8733157034239143049</id><published>2011-11-03T09:43:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-11-03T10:38:10.066Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEyel3HmCT4/TrJustrC_ZI/AAAAAAAAADo/KnGh4EGYys8/s1600/Chat+and+Stitch.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="288" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEyel3HmCT4/TrJustrC_ZI/AAAAAAAAADo/KnGh4EGYys8/s400/Chat+and+Stitch.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/chatandstitch.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Chat and Stitch&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with a photo of some clothes knitted for African children.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-8733157034239143049?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/8733157034239143049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/11/chat-and-stitch-has-been-updated-with.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8733157034239143049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8733157034239143049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/11/chat-and-stitch-has-been-updated-with.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEyel3HmCT4/TrJustrC_ZI/AAAAAAAAADo/KnGh4EGYys8/s72-c/Chat+and+Stitch.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-2033462610599444371</id><published>2011-10-30T11:52:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-10-30T11:52:50.628Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/wine3.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Wine Appreciation 3&lt;/a&gt; has published its programme of tastings for 2012.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-2033462610599444371?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/2033462610599444371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/10/wine-appreciation-3-has-published-its.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2033462610599444371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2033462610599444371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/10/wine-appreciation-3-has-published-its.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-3698156548907632285</id><published>2011-10-29T16:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T18:03:50.752+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Latest updates ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/music2.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Music 2&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/popular%20music.htm"&gt;Popular Music Appreciation&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm"&gt;Holidays&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/links.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Useful Links&lt;/a&gt; have been updated ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/local_history.htm"&gt;Local History&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/photo_albums.htm"&gt;Photo Albums&lt;/a&gt; have been updated ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-3698156548907632285?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/3698156548907632285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/10/latest-updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3698156548907632285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3698156548907632285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/10/latest-updates.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-5172941599297977277</id><published>2011-08-12T21:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T21:44:39.181+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sylvia's home!</title><content type='html'>Sylvia is now home, after a few days' convalescence with her daughter, and is now welcoming phone calls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The committee tried to brighten her day a bit with some flowers today - from all of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_unieHZYhA/TkWQKsnzwWI/AAAAAAAAADk/XhaclrzMhQc/s1600/Sylvia_Flowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_unieHZYhA/TkWQKsnzwWI/AAAAAAAAADk/XhaclrzMhQc/s400/Sylvia_Flowers.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-5172941599297977277?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/5172941599297977277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/08/sylvias-home.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5172941599297977277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5172941599297977277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/08/sylvias-home.html' title='Sylvia&apos;s home!'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_unieHZYhA/TkWQKsnzwWI/AAAAAAAAADk/XhaclrzMhQc/s72-c/Sylvia_Flowers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-2135641695371762435</id><published>2011-07-20T10:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-07-20T10:32:41.762+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sylvia Slack</title><content type='html'>You'll be glad to hear that Sylvia had a successful operation this morning at the QMC, Nottingham, and is now on the mend after her fall while on holiday in France.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-2135641695371762435?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/2135641695371762435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/07/sylvia-slack.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2135641695371762435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2135641695371762435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/07/sylvia-slack.html' title='Sylvia Slack'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-3184414190221929844</id><published>2011-06-29T11:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-06-29T11:17:38.624+01:00</updated><title type='text'>June updates at Mansfield U3A - http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/science.htm"&gt;Sci-Tech&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm"&gt;Recent Events&lt;/a&gt; have been updated with reports on a visit to Bletchley Park with photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/aboutus.htm"&gt;About Us&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with new statistics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/digital_world.htm"&gt;Digital World&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with details of new meeting dates for photography courses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/u3amemb/pdf/Minutes_17June11.pdf"&gt;Committee Minutes&lt;/a&gt; of 17th June have been uploaded to the &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/u3amemb/index.htm"&gt;Members' Area&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/links.htm"&gt;Useful Links&lt;/a&gt; has been updated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardens.htm"&gt;Garden Visits&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with photos of visits to Trentham Estate, the Dorothy Clive Garden and plans for 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/lunches.htm"&gt;Luncheon Club&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with new dates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Mansfield_U3A_newsletter_June_2011.pdf"&gt;The June newsletter&lt;/a&gt; has been uploaded to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/docs.htm"&gt;Documents&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/walkers.htm"&gt;Walkers&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with a date change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus2.htm"&gt;Classical Music 2&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with additional meeting dates and details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/familyhistory.htm"&gt;Family History&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with additional meeting dates and details.&lt;br /&gt;The June update to the U3A &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/U3A%20Resources%20update.pdf"&gt;Resource Centre Catalogue&lt;/a&gt; has been uploaded to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/docs.htm"&gt;Documents&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus1.htm"&gt;Classical Music 1&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with programme details to April 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/puddingclub.htm"&gt;Pudding Club&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with date changes.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/Speakers.htm"&gt;Speakers&lt;/a&gt; list has been updated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/intgroups.htm"&gt;Interest Groups&lt;/a&gt; has been updated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/bridge.htm"&gt;Bridge for Beginners&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with new dates.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-3184414190221929844?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/3184414190221929844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/06/june-updates-at-mansfield-u3a.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3184414190221929844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3184414190221929844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/06/june-updates-at-mansfield-u3a.html' title='June updates at Mansfield U3A - http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1815412843393870606</id><published>2011-01-29T14:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-01-29T14:25:03.285Z</updated><title type='text'>January updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/lunches.htm"&gt;Luncheon Club&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus2.htm"&gt;Classical Music 2&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/artappreciation.htm"&gt;Art Appreciation&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardens.htm"&gt;Garden Visits&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm"&gt;Recent Events&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/familyhistory.htm"&gt;Family History&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/whist.htm"&gt;Whist&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ...  Holidays&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/hikers.htm"&gt;Hikers&lt;/a&gt; has bee updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/filmreviews.htm"&gt;Film Studies&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/bridge.htm"&gt;Bridge for Beginners&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/u3amemb/pdf/Minutes_14January11.pdf"&gt;Committee Minutes&lt;/a&gt; of 14th January have been uploaded to the &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/u3amemb/index.htm"&gt;Member's Area&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/committee.htm"&gt;Committee&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... The &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Mansfield_U3A_newsletter_January_2011.pdf"&gt;January Newsletter&lt;/a&gt; has been uploaded to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/docs.htm"&gt;Documents&lt;/a&gt; ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/taichi.htm"&gt;Tai Chi&lt;/a&gt; has been updated ... &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/whatson.htm"&gt;What's On&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/intgroups.htm"&gt;Interest Groups&lt;/a&gt; have been updated&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1815412843393870606?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1815412843393870606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/01/january-updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1815412843393870606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1815412843393870606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/01/january-updates.html' title='January updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-2403348469413931381</id><published>2011-01-04T23:59:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-01-04T23:59:00.143Z</updated><title type='text'>Singing for Fun rehearsal dates</title><content type='html'>The next rehearsal for the Singing for Fun Choir will&lt;br /&gt;be on the 13th Jan &amp; then fortnightly: ie 27th Jan, &lt;br /&gt;10th &amp; 24th Feb&lt;br /&gt;10th &amp; 24th March&lt;br /&gt;7th  &amp; 21st April&lt;br /&gt;5th May&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June Fell&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-2403348469413931381?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/2403348469413931381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/01/singing-for-fun-rehearsal-dates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2403348469413931381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2403348469413931381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2011/01/singing-for-fun-rehearsal-dates.html' title='Singing for Fun rehearsal dates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-4536880367917984327</id><published>2010-12-01T00:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-12-01T00:48:39.200Z</updated><title type='text'>Snow hits U3A singers</title><content type='html'>The Singing for Fun rehearsals for  1st Dec &amp; 16th Dec &amp; the&lt;br /&gt;Christmas Concert at Ravenshead on Thur 2nd Dec have been cancelled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/singingforfun.htm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-4536880367917984327?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/4536880367917984327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/12/snow-hits-u3a-singers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/4536880367917984327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/4536880367917984327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/12/snow-hits-u3a-singers.html' title='Snow hits U3A singers'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-650650587622558321</id><published>2010-09-13T16:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-13T16:37:06.290+01:00</updated><title type='text'>New venue for whist players</title><content type='html'>As the Roman Catholic Church Hall has been closed for refurbishment,  &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/whist.htm"&gt;whist sessions&lt;/a&gt; will be at 125, Chatsworth Drive until further notice.&lt;br /&gt;Edith&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-650650587622558321?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/650650587622558321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-venue-for-whist-players.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/650650587622558321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/650650587622558321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-venue-for-whist-players.html' title='New venue for whist players'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-8115288565317036600</id><published>2010-08-30T09:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-08-30T09:22:06.377+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Atlantic island cruising</title><content type='html'>14 members from Mansfield &amp; Sherwood U3As will be cruising with P&amp;O on the Artemis from Southampton to Vigo, Lisbon, Grand Canaria, Tenerife  and Madeira on November 7th 2010. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Margaret Burlinson&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-8115288565317036600?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/8115288565317036600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/08/atlantic-island-cruising.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8115288565317036600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8115288565317036600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/08/atlantic-island-cruising.html' title='Atlantic island cruising'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-9114157065641957315</id><published>2010-08-13T14:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T14:50:38.905+01:00</updated><title type='text'>August updates</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Mansfield_U3A_newsletter_August_2010.pdf"&gt;August Newsletter&lt;/a&gt; has been uploaded to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/docs.htm"&gt;Documents.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm"&gt;Holidays&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with photos from Bavaria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/strollers.htm"&gt;Strollers&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with a report on a visit to Hardwick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/links.htm"&gt;Useful Links&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with a new link to &lt;a href="http://www.villageventures.org.uk/"&gt;Nottinghamshire Village Ventures&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm"&gt;Recent Events&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with reports on two visits to Manchester and a garden visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/artappreciation.htm"&gt;Art Appreciation&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with details about the group's visit to Compton Verney.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-9114157065641957315?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/9114157065641957315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/08/august-updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/9114157065641957315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/9114157065641957315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/08/august-updates.html' title='August updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-4605682776293713271</id><published>2010-07-19T16:01:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T16:03:23.327+01:00</updated><title type='text'>More updates</title><content type='html'>The Mansfield and District &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Mansfield_U3A_newsletter_July_2010.pdf"&gt;July Newsletter&lt;/a&gt; has been uploaded to Documents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm"&gt;Recent Events&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with some photos of the recent &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm"&gt;Holiday Group&lt;/a&gt; visit to &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/sets/72157624390338511/detail/"&gt;Oberammergau&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus1.htm"&gt;Classical Music 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/artappreciation.htm"&gt;Art Appreciation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/links.htm"&gt;Useful Links&lt;/a&gt; have been updated.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-4605682776293713271?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/4605682776293713271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-updates_19.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/4605682776293713271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/4605682776293713271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-updates_19.html' title='More updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-729261893848254402</id><published>2010-07-11T11:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-07-11T11:48:18.805+01:00</updated><title type='text'>More updates</title><content type='html'>Last week's updates included:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1: Addition of a group &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/taichi.htm"&gt;Tai Chi&lt;/a&gt; photograph of a session during a coach holiday.&lt;br /&gt;2: The &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Calendar_2010.pdf"&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Calendar_2011.pdf"&gt;2011&lt;/a&gt; year planners now list some new dates.&lt;br /&gt;3: &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/bridge.htm"&gt;Bridge for Beginners&lt;/a&gt; now shows the autumn meeting dates.&lt;br /&gt;4: &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardens.htm"&gt;Garden Visits&lt;/a&gt; now has a report on the group's recent visit to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Belton%20House%20Gardens%20Report.pdf"&gt;Belton House&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;5: &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/links.htm"&gt;Useful Links&lt;/a&gt; has been verified and updated&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-729261893848254402?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/729261893848254402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/729261893848254402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/729261893848254402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-updates.html' title='More updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1221514888058436152</id><published>2010-07-02T14:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-07-02T14:33:56.049+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>THERE HAVE been several changes to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/"&gt;Mansfield and District U3A's&lt;/a&gt; web pages recently that we hope make our site more useful as all of these pages were updated last month:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/artappreciation.htm"&gt;Art  Appreciation&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/singingforfun.htm"&gt;Singing for Fun&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/bridge.htm"&gt;Bridge for Beginners&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/cycling.htm"&gt;Cycling,&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/taichi.htm"&gt;Tai  Chi,&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm"&gt;Holidays&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/membership.htm"&gt;Membership&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm"&gt;Recent Events,&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus1.htm"&gt;Classical Music 1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/whatson.htm"&gt;What's On&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span style="color: #330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mansfield and District U3A's &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/links.htm"&gt;Useful Links&lt;/a&gt; page was updated today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1221514888058436152?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1221514888058436152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/07/there-have-been-several-changes-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1221514888058436152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1221514888058436152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/07/there-have-been-several-changes-to.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1467781320551281650</id><published>2010-06-29T16:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-29T16:20:09.079+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mansfield U3A Newsletters on-line</title><content type='html'>Mansfield U3A's &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/docs.htm"&gt;documents page&lt;/a&gt; has a new look that we hope will help members and visitors who like to read our free monthly newsletter on-line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/TCoOlXseknI/AAAAAAAAADA/SsPe5ZzH9Ss/s1600/newsletter+screen+cap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="230" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/TCoOlXseknI/AAAAAAAAADA/SsPe5ZzH9Ss/s400/newsletter+screen+cap.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1467781320551281650?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1467781320551281650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/06/mansfield-u3a-newsletters-on-line.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1467781320551281650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1467781320551281650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/06/mansfield-u3a-newsletters-on-line.html' title='Mansfield U3A Newsletters on-line'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/TCoOlXseknI/AAAAAAAAADA/SsPe5ZzH9Ss/s72-c/newsletter+screen+cap.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-8226181164508652532</id><published>2010-04-25T00:30:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-25T00:37:56.755+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;big style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coffee Morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; 23rd April&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;big style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="text-align: left; width: 100px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/sets/72157623917713554/detail/"&gt;&lt;img alt="coffee morning" height="320" src="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/images/coffeemorning2010.jpg" style="border: 2px solid; height: 707px; width: 500px;" width="226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;David&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Ling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;big style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Click the picture to see more of this event  ...&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Help for  Heroes, the charity raising money for wounded service personnel, will soon be getting a cheque from Mansfield and District U3A for £156, thanks to the generosity of members who enjoyed this year's coffee morning at The Towers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Members' funds were boosted by a further £376 as a result of money generated by the tombola, raffle and other stalls - none of which would have been possible without the generous donations and work of members and visitors who supported the event. Nor the hard work and time contributed by the organising committee led by Sylvia Slack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Click&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more about Help for Heroes.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;David  Ling&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="translator-floating-panel" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 198, 182); border: 2px ridge rgb(120, 79, 43); bottom: auto; cursor: pointer; display: none; height: auto; left: 278px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.4; padding: 0px; position: fixed; right: auto; top: 218px; width: auto; z-index: 2147483647;"&gt;&lt;div style="background: url(&amp;quot;chrome://translator/skin/icons.png&amp;quot;) no-repeat scroll left top transparent; display: block; height: 16px; margin: 2px; width: 16px;" title="Click to translate"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-8226181164508652532?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/8226181164508652532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/04/coffee-morning-23rd-april-david-ling.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8226181164508652532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8226181164508652532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/04/coffee-morning-23rd-april-david-ling.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-5584049165981886729</id><published>2010-04-09T14:32:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T14:47:22.506+01:00</updated><title type='text'>New Groups page update</title><content type='html'>&lt;big&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial Black; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;img alt="i2i" src="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/images/i2i.jpg" style="height: 75px; width: 75px;" /&gt; Introduction to  Internet use&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Several members have got on-line for the first time over the last few months through pilot sessions aimed at demystifying the internet for people who had never used a computer before so we hope we can build on that start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We aren't planning a series of lectures but this Group could provide an opportunity to share experience, learning from others to help you to cut living costs by an average of £500 pa, to develop hobbies, to expand social frontiers and exercise your mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You won't need your own computer as free internet access is available at all public libraries, paid-for in part by your own council tax, with staff available to help when you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But librarians don't have the time to give hours of one-to-one support to start you from scratch - which is where Mansfield U3A could help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the topics this Group might like to discuss include:&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;What is the internet? (The Word Wide Web and emails are just some aspects.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to create your own email address.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How can it help you? (Save money and time buying products and services on-line at big discounts relative to shop prices, develop hobbies by exploring reference sources, join on-line groups to play chess, bridge and other games, store and share photographs with friends and family … )&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Basic terminology in simple terms.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Web sites and how search engines help you find what you want.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Browsing web sites and pages. (How to open them and find them again quickly.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(Hyper)-links. (How pages and sites connect and how they make it easy to find what you want.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;On-line ordering. (Price comparisons, legal protection, how to place secure orders using your credit card and how to get confirmation .)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hands-on: Using a mouse and keyboards and how to navigate around popular websites.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Where and when&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The group has access to a modern community computer suite at Albert Street, Stanton Hill on the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;first&lt;/span&gt; Wednesday morning of every month by courtesy of long-time member Terry Whitehead who is also chairman of the Notts CC-backed New Opportunities for Stanton Hill (NOSH).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Costs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Room hire, including exclusive use of ten modern computers would cost £16 per 2-hour session. Thus a minimum of six participants contributing £3 per session is the minimum for this to be viable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;(Five of the computers are also available to us free of charge &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;every&lt;/span&gt; Wednesday afternoon from 1 - 3 but these are during public drop-in sessions when mentoring is difficult because we wouldn't want to distract other users - nor to be distracted.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Leadership/co-ordination&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The group will need a team of volunteers to mentor members on a maximum of a one-to-two basis so that everyone can learn at their own pace, exploring particular topics of interest. &lt;br /&gt;Group Leaders and/or a bookings secretary will also be needed to ensure that sessions are not overcrowded and that enough mentors are always available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(I will do what I can to help from time to time but I could not commit to a regular role, even if anyone wanted me to!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Ling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr style="height: 2px; width: 100%;" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/S78vHz-TiRI/AAAAAAAAAC4/ONVxifoviXo/s1600/i2ilesson_edited_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/S78vHz-TiRI/AAAAAAAAAC4/ONVxifoviXo/s320/i2ilesson_edited_2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Elaine Richardson and Eileen Wass learning happily!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr style="height: 2px; width: 100%;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Contact:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; David Ling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Phone:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; 822994&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;email:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; &lt;a href="mailto:mansfieldu3a@aol.com" target="_blank"&gt;mansfieldu3a@aol.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Meeting venue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;: Stanton Hill Baptist Church, Albert Street&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;When&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;: First Wednesday, 10.00 - 12.00.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;: £3 for room hire, with a minimum of 6 participants; £2 for 8 or more; per session.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="translator-floating-panel" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 198, 182); border: 2px ridge rgb(120, 79, 43); bottom: auto; cursor: pointer; display: none; height: auto; left: 700px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.4; padding: 0px; position: fixed; right: auto; top: 354px; width: auto; z-index: 2147483647;"&gt;&lt;div style="background: url(&amp;quot;chrome://translator/skin/icons.png&amp;quot;) no-repeat scroll left top transparent; display: block; height: 16px; margin: 2px; width: 16px;" title="Click to translate"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="translator-floating-panel" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 198, 182); border: 2px ridge rgb(120, 79, 43); bottom: auto; cursor: pointer; display: none; height: auto; left: 688px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.4; padding: 0px; position: fixed; right: auto; top: 254px; width: auto; z-index: 2147483647;"&gt;&lt;div style="background: url(&amp;quot;chrome://translator/skin/icons.png&amp;quot;) no-repeat scroll left top transparent; display: block; height: 16px; margin: 2px; width: 16px;" title="Click to translate"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-5584049165981886729?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/5584049165981886729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-groups-page-update.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5584049165981886729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5584049165981886729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-groups-page-update.html' title='New Groups page update'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/S78vHz-TiRI/AAAAAAAAAC4/ONVxifoviXo/s72-c/i2ilesson_edited_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-2256577942280333395</id><published>2010-01-25T01:20:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-01-25T01:22:55.608Z</updated><title type='text'>Last weeks's updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/bridge.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Bridge  for Beginners&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with meeting dates for the first half of 2010...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/familyhistory.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Family  History&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with some topics for the next few meetings ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Holidays Breaks and Day Trips has been  renamed &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Holidays (Home and Abroad)&lt;/a&gt; because they don't do trips any more (if they ever did!)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/January10_newsletter.pdf"&gt;The January Newsletter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Minutes_15January10.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Minutes&lt;/a&gt; have been uploaded to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/docs.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Documents&lt;/a&gt; for the benefit of members who missed the January meeting ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardening.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Gardening&lt;/a&gt; has published their meeting and speaker programme...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/intgroups.htm" target="_blank"&gt; Interest Groups&lt;/a&gt; has been updated... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardens.htm"&gt;Garden  Visits&lt;/a&gt; has published its event programme for May...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/hikers.htm"&gt;Hikers&lt;/a&gt; have published their programme for the year ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/puddingclub.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Pudding  Club&lt;/a&gt; has fixed their programme and hosts for the next few months ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/sets/72157622716235130/show/" target="_blank"&gt;Slideshow&lt;/a&gt; has been expanded with some new photos ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Recent  Events&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with photos and brief reports on the break at Thoresby, the Groups presentations at the January meeting and the &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/lunches.htm"&gt;Luncheon Club's&lt;/a&gt; Indian New Year Feast..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-2256577942280333395?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/2256577942280333395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/lasty-weekss-updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2256577942280333395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2256577942280333395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/lasty-weekss-updates.html' title='Last weeks&apos;s updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-7982770158644901137</id><published>2010-01-21T18:23:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-01-21T18:25:29.440Z</updated><title type='text'>Ashfield U3A invites gardeners</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/S1ibi8sditI/AAAAAAAAACw/z1XyHIYYlMM/s1600-h/Fish+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/S1ibi8sditI/AAAAAAAAACw/z1XyHIYYlMM/s400/Fish+poster.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-7982770158644901137?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/7982770158644901137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/ashfield-u3a-invites-gardeners.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7982770158644901137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7982770158644901137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/ashfield-u3a-invites-gardeners.html' title='Ashfield U3A invites gardeners'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/S1ibi8sditI/AAAAAAAAACw/z1XyHIYYlMM/s72-c/Fish+poster.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-5277058406939518445</id><published>2010-01-20T17:53:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-01-20T17:55:42.714Z</updated><title type='text'>Website updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Recent Events&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;has been updated with photos and a short report on Tuesday's Groups Day; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/artappreciation.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Art Appreciation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Holidays Breaks &amp;amp; Trips&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;have been updated with their latest programmes.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-5277058406939518445?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/5277058406939518445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/website-updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5277058406939518445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5277058406939518445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/website-updates.html' title='Website updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1345773762387896810</id><published>2010-01-19T00:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-01-19T00:15:57.770Z</updated><title type='text'>Classical Music 1 has been updated</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus1.htm"&gt;Classical Music 1&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with a programme of six concert visits between now and May.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1345773762387896810?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1345773762387896810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/classical-music-1-has-been-updated.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1345773762387896810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1345773762387896810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/classical-music-1-has-been-updated.html' title='Classical Music 1 has been updated'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1232139320433045715</id><published>2010-01-15T15:10:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-01-15T15:10:44.334Z</updated><title type='text'>Some diary dates</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Some forthcoming event dates were settled at this morning's committee meeting and will be added to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/whatson.htm"&gt;What's On&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/Calendar_2010.pdf"&gt;2010 Planner&lt;/a&gt; when details are finalised but you may like to pencil these into your diary:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;23rd April: St George's Day Coffee Morning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;22nd May: Swing Band Evening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;30th November: U3A Christmas Lunch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1232139320433045715?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1232139320433045715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-diary-dates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1232139320433045715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1232139320433045715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-diary-dates.html' title='Some diary dates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-7756850496360645723</id><published>2010-01-11T17:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-01-11T17:03:51.323Z</updated><title type='text'>Membership has been updated.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;An up-to-date version of Membership has been uploaded&lt;/span&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/membership.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-7756850496360645723?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/7756850496360645723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/membership-has-been-updated.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7756850496360645723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7756850496360645723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/membership-has-been-updated.html' title='Membership has been updated.'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-808077193429480099</id><published>2010-01-10T10:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-01-10T10:58:21.758Z</updated><title type='text'>Family History update</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pat Blackwell has updated the 2010 pogramme for the &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/familyhistory.htm"&gt;Family History&lt;/a&gt; group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-808077193429480099?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/808077193429480099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/family-history-update.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/808077193429480099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/808077193429480099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/family-history-update.html' title='Family History update'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1032145474202742212</id><published>2010-01-05T12:20:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-01-05T12:20:48.263Z</updated><title type='text'>Snow stops Sci-Tech</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Today's meeting of the Sci-Tech group has been cancelled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1032145474202742212?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1032145474202742212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/snow-stops-sci-tech.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1032145474202742212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1032145474202742212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2010/01/snow-stops-sci-tech.html' title='Snow stops Sci-Tech'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-5151063720551463691</id><published>2009-12-31T22:07:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-01-02T17:37:51.180Z</updated><title type='text'>Singing for Fun looking for new venue for 7th January</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;June Fell is looking for a new venue for the group's meeting on 7th June as the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt; Baptist church on Rosemary St won't be available then, due to maintenance  work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;She's trying to arrange somewhere else to meet and will post an update as soon as she knows  the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; new meeting place. Ring her on Mansfield 623547 if you want to know more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="color: red;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Update:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CHOIR PRACTICE 7th Jan CANCELLED&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Next one will now be 14th Jan 7.15 for 7.30 at BRUNTS  SCHOOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;From WOODHOUSE Rd go down PARK Ave to BRUNTS CAR  PARK.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-5151063720551463691?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/5151063720551463691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/singing-for-fun-looking-for-new-venue.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5151063720551463691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5151063720551463691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/singing-for-fun-looking-for-new-venue.html' title='Singing for Fun looking for new venue for 7th January'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-3079635540096141720</id><published>2009-12-30T17:27:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-12-30T17:27:51.706Z</updated><title type='text'>Eastbourne Holiday</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Most gardeners are probably keeping their feet up during this cold spell but there's much for those joining the &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardens.htm"&gt;Eastbourne holiday&lt;/a&gt; in May to look forward to as Marion Thornton has just finalised arrangements to visit these notable gardens:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Great Dixter&lt;/a&gt; - This famed garden was created by the late Christopher Lloyd and reflects his varied tastes. It is often featured in TV gardening programmes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pashleymanorgardens.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Pashley Manor&lt;/a&gt; - a quintessential English garden blending romantic landscaping, imaginative plantings and fine old trees, fountains, springs and large ponds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-sheffieldparkgarden" target="_blank"&gt;Sheffield Park&lt;/a&gt; - noted for a magnificent 'Capability' Brown landscaped garden with waterfalls, cascades, four large lakes and a profusion of colour all year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.leonardslee.com/" target="_blank"&gt; Leonardslee&lt;/a&gt; - vast collections of plants, predominantly Rhododendrons and Azaleas, conifers, award-winning camelias and other collections are features.&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Wisley" target="_blank"&gt;Wisley&lt;/a&gt; - home to the RHS and one of the great gardens of the world with huge and diverse plant collections covering fruit, vegetables, alpines and bulbs as well as herbaceous and woody plants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-3079635540096141720?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/3079635540096141720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/eastbourne-holiday.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3079635540096141720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3079635540096141720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/eastbourne-holiday.html' title='Eastbourne Holiday'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-718517959771830510</id><published>2009-12-29T11:09:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-12-29T11:09:48.852Z</updated><title type='text'>Classical Music 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus2.htm"&gt;http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus2.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;has been updated with the group's 2010 programme from Peter Crabbe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-718517959771830510?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/718517959771830510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/classical-music-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/718517959771830510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/718517959771830510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/classical-music-2.html' title='Classical Music 2'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-163013202395965831</id><published>2009-12-21T10:56:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-12-21T11:01:16.658Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/Sy9UJKORFnI/AAAAAAAAACo/gii_8Ug1ie8/s1600-h/HappyChristmas_Reindeer_lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/Sy9UJKORFnI/AAAAAAAAACo/gii_8Ug1ie8/s320/HappyChristmas_Reindeer_lg.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-163013202395965831?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/163013202395965831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/163013202395965831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/163013202395965831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/Sy9UJKORFnI/AAAAAAAAACo/gii_8Ug1ie8/s72-c/HappyChristmas_Reindeer_lg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-8784397264266441818</id><published>2009-12-17T18:11:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-12-17T18:13:46.990Z</updated><title type='text'>Date Change for Luncheon Club</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The Luncheon Club's monthly meeting dates will be on the &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;fourth&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Thursday of every month with effect from February 2010 - apart from the Joyeux Noel Christmas lunch at Launay's in Edwinstowe, which will be on the &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;third&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Thursday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This change gained massive support from members at today's lunch as it reduces the clashes with other events that has been a problem for some.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I'll update the information on the main website (&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/"&gt;http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/&lt;/a&gt;) as soon as possible and the full programme for 2010 will be available there, at the next main meeting and via email in due course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-8784397264266441818?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/8784397264266441818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/date-change-for-luncheon-club.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8784397264266441818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8784397264266441818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/date-change-for-luncheon-club.html' title='Date Change for Luncheon Club'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-852622304080607802</id><published>2009-12-11T09:56:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-12-11T10:01:33.623Z</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Lunch 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Diners at this year's Christmas Lunch at the Derbyshire Hotel who chose salmon, which was swerved in an excellent shrimp sauce, and cheesecake fared better than traditionalists who went for the turkey and Christmas pud option - although both main courses were spoiled by very sub-standard, almost raw, vegetables.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SyIYRdZPGVI/AAAAAAAAACg/Ry2aoYojVZA/s1600-h/xmascollage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SyIYRdZPGVI/AAAAAAAAACg/Ry2aoYojVZA/s400/xmascollage.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The quality of the ambience and service and management apologies afterwards didn't make up for the Derbyshire's shortcomings so we won't be returning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Our Christmas lunch for 2010 will be at the Masonic Hall - where several committee members have dined recently to a far higher standard&amp;nbsp; - on Tuesday 30th November.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-852622304080607802?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/852622304080607802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-lunch-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/852622304080607802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/852622304080607802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-lunch-2010.html' title='Christmas Lunch 2010'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SyIYRdZPGVI/AAAAAAAAACg/Ry2aoYojVZA/s72-c/xmascollage.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-6419805455455748512</id><published>2009-12-09T16:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-12-09T16:11:40.407Z</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Ceilidh</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm"&gt;Recent Events&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with a report on Tuesday's ceilidh at the William Kaye Memorial Hall with some pics from Stuart Fell and words from Mike Allen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/Sx_L36PGvxI/AAAAAAAAACY/nQ0JqJ9su9A/s1600-h/Events.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/Sx_L36PGvxI/AAAAAAAAACY/nQ0JqJ9su9A/s400/Events.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good time was had by all it seems!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-6419805455455748512?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/6419805455455748512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-ceilidh.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/6419805455455748512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/6419805455455748512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-ceilidh.html' title='Christmas Ceilidh'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/Sx_L36PGvxI/AAAAAAAAACY/nQ0JqJ9su9A/s72-c/Events.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1480387474685066461</id><published>2009-12-08T09:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-12-08T09:42:43.977Z</updated><title type='text'>Singers on parade</title><content type='html'>I hear from June Fell that the Singing for Fun group is rehearsing enthusiastically for a performance at the January meeting on the 19th.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1480387474685066461?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1480387474685066461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/singers-on-parade.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1480387474685066461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1480387474685066461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/singers-on-parade.html' title='Singers on parade'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1242414659297571174</id><published>2009-12-07T16:02:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-12-08T09:36:32.515Z</updated><title type='text'>Two major updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I'm delighted to say that I've now cleared the decks to make way for all the revisions interest group leaders will want me to post as soon as they have finished planning their 2010 programmes - so bring 'em on!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The two major revisions over the weekend were a new &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm"&gt;Holidays&lt;/a&gt; page, where Margaret Burlinson and I have been seeking a neat way to combine two pages into one and a new &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/links.htm"&gt;Links&lt;/a&gt; page to replace the old difficult-to-navigate one that had many dead entries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So thanks to her for co-operating over her pages and thanks to all the Interest Group leaders for helping me to introduce some logic into the links.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I hope everyone likes these changes but don't hesitate to say anything you want!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1242414659297571174?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1242414659297571174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-major-updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1242414659297571174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1242414659297571174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-major-updates.html' title='Two major updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-8230057993752906116</id><published>2009-12-02T17:00:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-12-03T16:05:34.688Z</updated><title type='text'>Flowers for the Chairman</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The committee caught Sylvia on the hop at yesterday's Christmas Lunch when Edith Senior presented her with some flowers in appreciation of her gentle touch and guidance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SxacfZ23DgI/AAAAAAAAACQ/NFyYxmLhV4U/s1600-h/P1000348.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SxacfZ23DgI/AAAAAAAAACQ/NFyYxmLhV4U/s400/P1000348.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;'Thanks, Sylvia' sums-up the occasion!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-8230057993752906116?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/8230057993752906116/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/flowers-for-chairman.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8230057993752906116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8230057993752906116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/flowers-for-chairman.html' title='Flowers for the Chairman'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SxacfZ23DgI/AAAAAAAAACQ/NFyYxmLhV4U/s72-c/P1000348.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-2881620038916422609</id><published>2009-12-01T10:19:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-12-01T10:21:10.569Z</updated><title type='text'>Theatre Group announcement</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/theatres.htm"&gt;Theatre Group's&lt;/a&gt; next visit will be  to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;ENJOY&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Alan Bennett on Wednesday 17th March 2010.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Tickets are £14.60  each if I get 21 names on the list. At present, there are 17 - so 4 more names  please to get the reduction from £16. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;BUT I need names AND  money for this at the January meeting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The play is set in  Leeds where an ageing couple are living in the city’s last back to back. A  sociologist visits them on their last day before being rehoused in a brand new  maisonette. Alison Steadman stars along with David Troughton. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-2881620038916422609?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/2881620038916422609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/theatre-group-announcement.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2881620038916422609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2881620038916422609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/12/theatre-group-announcement.html' title='Theatre Group announcement'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-7291548257286047939</id><published>2009-11-29T17:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-29T17:53:15.656Z</updated><title type='text'>More page updates and new links suggestions</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/popmusic.htm"&gt;Our Popular Music Appreciation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/science.htm"&gt;Sci-Tech&lt;/a&gt; pages have been updated and now include some links the Leaders recommend to their group members and others.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-7291548257286047939?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/7291548257286047939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-page-updates-and-new-links.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7291548257286047939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7291548257286047939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-page-updates-and-new-links.html' title='More page updates and new links suggestions'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-5860914258775325425</id><published>2009-11-27T17:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-27T17:50:32.721Z</updated><title type='text'>A nice U3A piece in the Guardian</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Not about Mansfield, I'm afraid, but &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/24/university-of-the-third-age"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; makes good reading.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-5860914258775325425?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-5281905944420429428</id><published>2009-11-26T17:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-26T17:12:02.826Z</updated><title type='text'>The new look</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I hope you like the new look!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-5281905944420429428?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/5281905944420429428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-look.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5281905944420429428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/5281905944420429428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-look.html' title='The new look'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-7836398956703321570</id><published>2009-11-25T16:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-25T16:45:59.251Z</updated><title type='text'>Popular Music Appreciation update</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Popular Music Appreciation has been updated with details of their 2010 programme &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/popmusic.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-7836398956703321570?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/7836398956703321570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/popular-music-appreciation-update.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7836398956703321570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7836398956703321570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/popular-music-appreciation-update.html' title='Popular Music Appreciation update'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-7245148537132863436</id><published>2009-11-25T00:44:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-11-26T10:49:32.304Z</updated><title type='text'>November newsletter now on-line</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;If you didn't get the November newsletter at the main meeting you can now download it in PDF format &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/pdf/nov%202009%20newsletterDL.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(Most computers nowadays already have a PDF reader installed but you may need to download one before you can read it. My favourite used to be the free &lt;a href="http://www.foxitsoftware.com/"&gt;Foxit Reader&lt;/a&gt; but the new &lt;a href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?pli=1"&gt;Google Docs Reader&lt;/a&gt; extension to Firefox seems even better.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-7245148537132863436?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/7245148537132863436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/november-newsletter-now-on-line.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7245148537132863436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/7245148537132863436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/november-newsletter-now-on-line.html' title='November newsletter now on-line'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1568030525781150794</id><published>2009-11-24T21:36:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-11-26T10:15:51.619Z</updated><title type='text'>No Scrabble in December</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Owing to various reasons the December  meeting&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;of the Scrabblers&amp;nbsp;(Monday 14  December) has had to be cancelled.&amp;nbsp; Although I think a lot of the members  know it might be a good idea to put a reminder on the website Notice Board or on  the main Scrabble page.&amp;nbsp; Could you oblige?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pete (T) pp Brenda (T)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1568030525781150794?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1568030525781150794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/no-scrabble-in-december.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1568030525781150794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1568030525781150794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/no-scrabble-in-december.html' title='No Scrabble in December'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-8189551810537325066</id><published>2009-11-23T21:46:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-11-25T16:48:36.071Z</updated><title type='text'>NCC Library service offers to help i2i</title><content type='html'>I&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; was delighted to get this email from the District Librarian offering support to help members use the Internet:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;As per our discussion a few weeks ago I am writing to confirm that the library service would normally be able to offer free hour to one and a half hour training sessions on the following topics:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Computer Basics - parts of the computer and how it works, using the mouse and keyboard, producing, saving and printing a document &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Using the internet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Setting up and using an email account&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Some libraries such as Mansfield Woodhouse library also offer a basic introduction to using the Ancestry.com website for family history research. However availability of training sessions does vary per library and at the moment Mansfield library due to staffing shortages is not able to offer TRY IT sessions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding your query about whether staff would be able to assist someone wanting to book a holiday or buy an item online I think this would depend on staff availability and the level of competence of the person enquiring. The staff would not normally have time to do this for the person but could possibly spend about 10 minutes assisting them to do it themselves if they rang in advance to arrange this. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;If the customer had not used the internet at all before but had basic IT skills we would normally prefer that they booked an introductory internet session as part of which they could look briefly at holiday booking or shopping websites but then should have the skills to make the booking or purchase the item themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All libraries have free broadband access to the internet with a library membership card and pin number which is given at the point when customers join.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope this information is helpful and apologise for the delay in replying as I needed to clarify the situation regarding TRY IT training at Mansfield library (which has a separate management team).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best wishes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So that seems to confirm what I hoped; there's easy access to free modern computers and support at every library but it would be better if 'customers' as they call users, at least knew enough to be able to get on-line without expecting staff to do everything for them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Terry&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I'm not expecting many of the people who have expressed an interest in i2i to see this yet but I hope you will!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-8189551810537325066?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/8189551810537325066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/ncc-library-service-offers-to-help-i2i.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8189551810537325066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8189551810537325066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/ncc-library-service-offers-to-help-i2i.html' title='NCC Library service offers to help i2i'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-8808390307601924252</id><published>2009-11-22T01:15:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-11-22T01:19:50.189Z</updated><title type='text'>New page</title><content type='html'>Singing for Fun now has a new page &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/singingforfun.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SwiQaAkWHyI/AAAAAAAAABI/l7sczR9HMpU/s1600/singers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SwiQaAkWHyI/AAAAAAAAABI/l7sczR9HMpU/s640/singers.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-8808390307601924252?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/8808390307601924252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-page.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8808390307601924252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/8808390307601924252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-page.html' title='New page'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SwiQaAkWHyI/AAAAAAAAABI/l7sczR9HMpU/s72-c/singers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-4016626749049601785</id><published>2009-11-20T15:05:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-11-26T14:19:21.314Z</updated><title type='text'>Out and about with my camera ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I had a busy day yesterday taking my camera to the Luncheon Club's excellent visit to the Carnavon in Teversal, a pub that some people may remember as a tacky place to avoid. The new owners have brought about a transformation and it was one of our best lunches of the year:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SwarT50tTuI/AAAAAAAAAA4/KeTlmFDEjSY/s1600/Lunch_Club_Carnarvon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SwarT50tTuI/AAAAAAAAAA4/KeTlmFDEjSY/s640/Lunch_Club_Carnarvon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(There are more &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/sets/72157622712140167/detail/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; in full size.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Then. June Fell had asked me to look in at the inaugural meeting of her new Singing for Fun group in the evening in case there was enough happening to justify a photo here and for &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm"&gt;Recent Events&lt;/a&gt; on the main website.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I almost had to fight my way into the meeting room at the Rosemary St Baptist Chapel, such was the crowd that had arrived before me - and I was on time!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;They were still sorting the basses from the sopranos when I left to save myself the embarrassment of having to sing for my supper - and them from having to hear me - but this new group has clearly got off to a magnificent start.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/Swau8UyKNyI/AAAAAAAAABA/Hixh4oVIcTw/s1600/singers+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/Swau8UyKNyI/AAAAAAAAABA/Hixh4oVIcTw/s640/singers+collage.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(There more from this group &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/sets/72157622838546218/detail/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-4016626749049601785?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/4016626749049601785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/out-and-about-with-my-camera.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/4016626749049601785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/4016626749049601785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/out-and-about-with-my-camera.html' title='Out and about with my camera ...'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SwarT50tTuI/AAAAAAAAAA4/KeTlmFDEjSY/s72-c/Lunch_Club_Carnarvon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-6016641096420901913</id><published>2009-11-17T14:27:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-11-25T16:49:27.872Z</updated><title type='text'>Some good news, and some sad ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The good is that Pauline Boucher has had her thinking cap on and come up with a great list of links she recommends to anyone interested in the fine arts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;These are now on the &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/artappreciation.htm"&gt;Art Appreciation Group&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bmag.org.uk/collections" target="_blank"&gt;Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery&lt;/a&gt; - home to one of the world's finest collections of Pre-Raphaelite art, as well as extensive collections of fine and applied art, social history, archaeology and ethnography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; - world-class collections of works of art and antiquities spanning centuries and civilisations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1xi7.sl.pt/" target="_blank" title="http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladyLever/"&gt;Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunligh&lt;/a&gt;t - one of the most beautiful collections of fine and decorative arts in the UK, including British 18th and 19th century painting and furniture, Wedgwood and Chinese porcelain displays.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1xic.sl.pt/" target="_blank" title="http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en"&gt;Louvre&lt;/a&gt; - collection covering Western art from the medieval period to 1848, formative works from the civilisations of the ancient world, and works of Islamic art. The collection is grouped into eight Departments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thelowry.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Lowry Centre, Salford Quays&lt;/a&gt; - shows the works of LS Lowry alongside contemporary exhibitions in a landmark exhibition space&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.manchestergalleries.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Manchester Art Gallery&lt;/a&gt; - houses many of the city’s most important fine and decorative art works covering over six centuries up to the present day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1036" target="_blank"&gt;Nottingham Castle Museum&lt;/a&gt; - a vibrant museum and art gallery housing collections of silver, glass, decorative items, visual arts, paintings and Nottinghamshire Archaeology and History&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery&lt;/a&gt; - enable us to see ourselves – and the world around us – in completely different, sometimes life-changing, ways. It houses one of the largest collections of works by David Hockney&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;Tate&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;holds the national collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/" target="_blank"&gt;Walker Gallery, Liverpool&lt;/a&gt; - the national gallery of the North. Fifteen rooms display important collections from the Medieval and Renaissance periods to the present day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wga.hu/" target="_blank"&gt;Web Gallery of Art&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The sad news is that the Belly Dancing Group has now closed; I'm sure our ladies-who-like-to-keep-fit will want to join me in thanking Teresa Wells for all she did. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-6016641096420901913?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/6016641096420901913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-good-news-and-some-sad.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/6016641096420901913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/6016641096420901913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-good-news-and-some-sad.html' title='Some good news, and some sad ...'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-3359909836875647490</id><published>2009-11-16T10:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-16T10:14:52.229Z</updated><title type='text'>Holidays Group page now has links</title><content type='html'>Thanks to Margaret Burlinson, our &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/holidays.htm"&gt;Holidays Group&lt;/a&gt; page now has these quick links to sites we hope you'll find useful:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Helpful Links&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bargainholidays.com/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Bargain Holidays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - a search engine for cheap holiday deals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1x9o.sl.pt/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank" title="http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/"&gt;Foreign and Commonwealth Office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - advice and&amp;nbsp;tips for British nationals travelling overseas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geographia.com/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Geographia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - useful for cultural and historical backgrounds to many counntries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1xb9.sl.pt/" target="_blank" title="http://www.guide-to-bavaria.com/index.php?language=en&amp;amp;gclid=CNHFpZSfj54CFVtm4wodhjiGqw"&gt;Guide to Bavaria&lt;/a&gt; - Germany's top travel destination&amp;nbsp;has a lot to offer at any time of year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lastminute.com/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Lastminute.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - special offers on last minute travel, flights, hotels, and entertainment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.laterooms.com/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Late Rooms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;- good for discounted late bookings in hotels, including the UK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Lonely Planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - frequently updated site that claims to offer all you need to know when&amp;nbsp;planning a trip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.skyscanner.net/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;SkyScanner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - a search engine that helps you find the best air fares and book flights on-line&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1x9n.sl.pt/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank" title="http://www.warnerleisurehotels.co.uk/hotels/thoresby-hall-hotel/overview/?gclid=CMucyPqejp4CFYIA4wodBl0UnQ"&gt;Thoresby Hall Hotel and Spa &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- A Grade I-listed mansion on the edge of Sherwood Forest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.travelocity.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Travelocity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - a search engine and booking service for flights, hotels, car hire and breaks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wexas.com/"&gt;Wexas&lt;/a&gt; - a long-established independent travel club with a helpful site and good offers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-3359909836875647490?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/3359909836875647490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/holidays-group-page-now-has-links.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3359909836875647490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/3359909836875647490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/holidays-group-page-now-has-links.html' title='Holidays Group page now has links'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-1613195660631726109</id><published>2009-11-15T17:42:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-11-15T17:50:23.824Z</updated><title type='text'>More Link page updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I've added quick links to groups leaders' special interest links as below&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus1.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Classical Music 1 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- what's on, on-line booking and much more about concerts in Mansfield, Nottingham and Sheffield.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardening.htm" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;Gardening&lt;/a&gt; - recommended local garden centres and mail-order suppliers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/amblers1.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Strollers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; some venues for a gentle walk near Mansfield.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/theatres.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Theatre Visits &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;the programmes at theatres in Mansfield, Nottingham, Sheffield and Stamford.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/familyhistory.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/familyhistory.htm"&gt;Family History&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;how to trace your&amp;nbsp;ancestor though official records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/lunches.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Luncheon Club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;some recommended dining venues around Mansfield; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;and further afield.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/taichi.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tai Chi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;information about the health, discipline, skill, and cultural aspects of this Chinese martial art.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;More to come as I receive more suggestions! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-1613195660631726109?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/1613195660631726109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-link-page-updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1613195660631726109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/1613195660631726109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-link-page-updates.html' title='More Link page updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-6895025304507280990</id><published>2009-11-15T00:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-15T00:35:22.837Z</updated><title type='text'>Recent Events Update</title><content type='html'>I've updated &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/recentevents.htm"&gt;Recent Events&lt;/a&gt; with this nice photo from Geoff Davies showing the Strollers at Cresswell Crags.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/images/Strollers%20at%20Cresswell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/images/Strollers%20at%20Cresswell.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a bigger, high definition, versions on Flickr &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18843279@N03/4102828242/sizes/l/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-6895025304507280990?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/6895025304507280990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/recent-events-update.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/6895025304507280990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/6895025304507280990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/recent-events-update.html' title='Recent Events Update'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-2179952120438813702</id><published>2009-11-14T00:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-14T00:21:00.541Z</updated><title type='text'>Links page changes.</title><content type='html'>I have made some further revisions to our &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/links.htm"&gt;Links Page&lt;/a&gt; that I hope reduce the clutter as redundant links are deleted and others are transferred to the relevant Interest Group page - including these that have moved to &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/theatres.htm"&gt;Theatre Visits&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.artsaroundmansfield.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Arts around Mansfield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - find out about all things cultural happening right on your doorstep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Lakeside Arts &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- the University of Nottingham's unique public arts centre presenting an eclectic programme of music, dance, theatre, visual art and family events all year round.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1x01.sl.pt/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank" title="http://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/index.cfm/page/content.index.cfm/cid/5/navid/90/parentid/75"&gt;Nottingham Playhouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - a grade II listed, 750-seater theatre in the heart of Nottingham.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Nottingham Theatre Royal and Royal Centre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - offers something for everybody, always.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Arial;" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stamfordshakespeare.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"&gt;Stamford Shakespeare Theatre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt; - presents an annual season of plays in June, July and August at Rutland Open Air Theatre in the grounds of historic Tolethorpe Hall.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-2179952120438813702?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/2179952120438813702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/links-page-changes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2179952120438813702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/2179952120438813702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/links-page-changes.html' title='Links page changes.'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670673835271135555.post-4592876426260505015</id><published>2009-11-13T17:52:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-11-13T17:56:31.147Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SvrsdEj7CwI/AAAAAAAAAAU/bl3uZHSLd5U/s1600-h/u3a_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sr="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SvrsdEj7CwI/AAAAAAAAAAU/bl3uZHSLd5U/s320/u3a_logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Helpful links have been added to these &lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/"&gt;Mansfield and District U3A&lt;/a&gt; pages where the interest group leaders have recommended other websites they&amp;nbsp;find useful&amp;nbsp;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/gardening.htm"&gt;Gardening&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- including a directory of Nottinghamshire garden centres, the Royal Horticultural Society and several on-line and mail-order suppliers.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/familyhistory.htm"&gt;Family History&lt;/a&gt; - UK government's official archive, containing almost 1,000 years of history, and several other sites that help with researching family trees.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/clasmus1.htm"&gt;Classical Music 1&lt;/a&gt; - searchable information on 695+ composers and 1,675+ operas, and what's on guides to Nottingham, Mansfield and Sheffield.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/taichi.htm"&gt;Tai Chi&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- guides to the various forms of TaiChi and its health benefits.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansfield-u3a.org.uk/lunches.htm"&gt;Luncheon Club&lt;/a&gt; - guides to the best pubs and restaurants in Nottinghamshire and around.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4670673835271135555-524201789385944768?l=mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/feeds/524201789385944768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/524201789385944768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4670673835271135555/posts/default/524201789385944768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mansfieldu3a.blogspot.com/2009/11/updates.html' title='Updates'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10500846658572522922</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CzfWvBLPTiU/SvrsdEj7CwI/AAAAAAAAAAU/bl3uZHSLd5U/s72-c/u3a_logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
