Learn Laugh Live
Last Updated: 6 Nov ’24
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Mike was born and bred in the West Country and started his career by doing research in laboratory astrophysics at UCL, and then Canadian and US postdocs, the latter with NASA in Pittsburgh. Back in the UK he spent the next 30 years in IT sales and marketing, winding up on the UK board of Compaq. On ‘retiring’ he spent 10 years consulting in the Government area.
Mike has been a member of Chiltern u3a for 12 years, 8 years on the committee, and 4 years as Vice Chair and Chair. He has been married to Jill for 55 years, son Paul (Cardiff), daughter Rachel (Melbourne), plus four grandchildren. They commute to Oz most years to visit the family.
Mike will present an introduction to Artificial Intelligence including but not limited to:
No fee to be paid
Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups)
The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date.
If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly.
Boxmoor Playhouse
72 St John’s Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1NP
Parking round the Moor OR 55 – 57 Park Road, HP1 1JS
X5 bus from Berkhamsted Town Hall to St John’s Church, walk 10 minutes
Buses are every 30 minutes: 21 and 51 past the hour, return 10 to and 20 past the hour, but check
Buses running in St John’s road past the Playhouse:
H10 https://www.intalink.org.uk/services/9e20e052-b756-4ff5-afeb-f0a0ce466e1c?date=2024-12-02&direction=outbound
H11 https://www.intalink.org.uk/services/9077ed51-eb28-40df-8838-8c69504b3299?date=2024-12-02&direction=outbound&all=on
Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024
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NB: DIFFERENT TIMES
Come and celebrate the Christmas Season with us. The Ukulele and Folk Singing Groups will entertain us and we will be providing mince pies!
It will be a fitting end to a very successful year of Monthly Meetings.
Christmas jerseys suggested but optional!
No fee to be paid
Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups)
The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date.
If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly.
Boxmoor Playhouse
72 St John’s Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1NP
Parking round the Moor OR 55 – 57 Park Road, HP1 1JS
X5 bus from Berkhamsted Town Hall to St John’s Church, walk 10 minutes
Buses are every 30 minutes: 21 and 51 past the hour, return 10 to and 20 past the hour, but check
Buses running in St John’s road past the Playhouse:
H10 https://www.intalink.org.uk/services/9e20e052-b756-4ff5-afeb-f0a0ce466e1c?date=2024-12-02&direction=outbound
H11 https://www.intalink.org.uk/services/9077ed51-eb28-40df-8838-8c69504b3299?date=2024-12-02&direction=outbound&all=on
Last updated: 23 Nov 2024
Views: 34
Exploring London, Monday 18th and Wednesday 20th November
November Walk: Tottenham Court Road to Trafalgar Square
The walk is about 2 miles in length.
If you wish to apply for this walk, please email Hilary at Coordinator after 9.00 on Friday 1 November with a maximum of 4 persons per application. Please give your full names and U3A numbers; and indicate if you can do either date.
Remember if you apply for others, you are responsible for passing on messages.
Please indicate if you are NOT willing for your email address to be shared with other successful applicants.
If you have any queries regarding this walk, please contact Hilary via Coordinator. Late applications will be accepted.
Last updated: 29 Oct 2024
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Explore London – Sands End
Wednesday 23 and Friday 25 October 2024
Tony will be leading walks in Sands End on 23rd and 25th October.
This is an area by the Thames best known in the past as the location of Lots Road Power Station which supplied electricity to the London Underground. Today it has many other fascinating links.
If you wish to apply for this walk, please email the coordinator via the group page after 09.00 on Tuesday 1st October with a maximum of 4 persons per application.
Remember if you apply for others, you are responsible for passing on messages. Please give your full names and U3A numbers and preferred date and indicate if you are not willing for your email address to be shared with other successful applicants.
If you miss the 1st October you can still apply especially, If you can do both dates, so numbers can be balanced on both walks.
If you have any queries regarding this walk please contact Sue via Coordinator
Last updated – 3 Oct ’24
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Box Moor Trust Autumn Festival
We will be running a stall at the Box Moor Trust festival on Sunday 29th September. Come along to learn more about our wide range of interest groups and chat to members. We will have examples of craft projects and photographs of events to show you.
The festival is on Blackbirds Moor, St John’s Road in Hemel Hempstead from 11am to 3pm and we will be in the small marquee.
Hope to see you there.
Last updated: 24 Sep ’24
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We are sorry to say that the following groups have been cancelled, for various reasons.
If you would like to re-start the group, please contact the Groups Secretary
You do not need to run the group by yourself, often someone is will to help.
A Cappella (147)
Belleplates (062)
Board Games (070 and 212)
Bowls (006)
Creative Writing A (077)
Computer Support (069)
French and Fun (015)
French Conversation (014)
Garden Appreciation (016)
Geology 1 and 2 (021 and 184)
Line Dancing (022)
Music Appreciation (034)
Painting Unlimited (09)
Painting for You (196)
Playing early Music (043)
Recorder Ensemble (148)
Sign Language (227 and 189)
Short Day Trips (186)
Shorter Walks A & B (050)
Sunday Scrabble (055)
Swimming Berkhamsted (226) But see Swimming (221) ex HH
Ukulele 2 (192)
Whist (091)
Last Updated 6 Jul ’24
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Coach Trip – Wednesday 15th May – Combe Mill
The Industrial History group will be visiting Combe Mill and the Oxford Bus Museum, which includes the Morris Motors Museum on Wednesday 15th May. There are a few places available on the trip, which is now offered to any U3A Dacorum member who would like to come on the trip.
The programme is as below –
0900 Departure from former Park & Ride stop by Gadebridge Park on Leighton Buzzard Road, Hemel Hempstead
1030 Arrival at Combe Mill – tea and coffee will be provided on arrival
There will be a presentation about the Mill, which will need to be in two groups as there is limited space. While the first group is at the presentation, the second group will be free to look round the Mill (which will be in steam). This second group will then be able to see/hear the presentation. Throughout the visit the various parts of the Mill, which was the sawmill for the Blenheim Estate, will be staffed by volunteers who will be able to talk about “their” part of the Mill. It is by all accounts a very interesting place.
1245 Departure from the Mill
1300 Arrival at Oxford Bus Museum (and Morris Motors Museum)
There is no presentation at the Museums; you are free to tour as you wish. There is a café at the Museum
1600 Departure for return to Hemel
The cost of the trip, which will include the coach trip, driver’s tip, entrance fees and tea/coffee at Combe Mill will be in the region of £36 per person depending on the number of participants.
For more information about the venues, have a look at their websites at https://www.combemill.co.uk/ and https://www.oxfordbusmuseum.
It looks like it will be a really interesting day and I hope you will be keen to sign up for it.
If you want to reserve a place, please send an email to the Coordinator
Last Updated: 20 Mar ’24
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Mark’s passion for lighthouses began in his childhood years. Mark is a long-standing member of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers and serves on its committee as Education Officer.
During the last twenty-five years, Mark has enthusiastically shared his professional interests and hobbies by giving talks to Probus, Rotary, Wls, U3As, National Trust Associations, art and historical societies, antique clubs, luncheon clubs, church groups and other community organisations.
Sentinels of the Sea is a general introduction to “pharology” -the study of lighthouses and other navigational aids.
The talk will discuss the prototype – the Pharos of Alexandria, and the evolving history of lighthouse construction, methods of illumination, operation and maintenance, the lives of the keepers, including some of the extraordinary heroic stories associated with them.
No fee to be paid
Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups)
The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date.
If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly.
Northchurch Social Centre 
Bell Lane
Northchurch
Hertfordshire
HP4 3RD
Parking at the centre OR
X5 bus from Marlowes stop H – Ride 21 Stops to Darr’s Lane, walk 6 minutes
Buses are every 30 minutes: 10 to and 20 past the hour, return 12 and 42 past, but check
Last updated: 22 Feb 2024
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For January, February and March there is a Meeting Fee Holiday.
In other words, members will not be charged for attendance at any meeting during the first quarter of 2024.
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