Author Archives: Dave Humphries

Photography group activities early 2025

One evening in February, a few members of the group attended a second shooting session on this topic.

Explore London 2 trips in early 2025

On Valentine’s Day London Explorers Group 2 enjoyed the guided tour of Two Temple Place which is just a short walk from Waterloo Station.

u3a ambles in early 2025

In concert with the new quarterly Newsletter schedule, convenor Dave Humphries describes and illustrates the ambles we’ve enjoyed in early 2025.

A Song and Dance in December 2024

The significant difference we tried this year was to invite Linda Chanan to lead members in square dancing. For each new routine, Linda took us through the steps before playing the music through.

Amble on Ascot Heath – December 2024

On 12th December, the u3a Amblers group enjoyed their last 2024 amble which took us through the tunnel to the centre of the race course. Read and see more photos within.

Photography group sparks interest

One evening in early December 2024, a few members of the group attended a shooting session to see how succesful we could be at photographing flying ‘sparks’ from a variety of sources. Read this post to see our results and how we achieved them.

National Trust group visit Stourhead – November 2024

At the end of November, the group visited Stourhead NT, to see the house dressed for Christmas and to appreciate features of the landscape garden.

Explore London 2 trips in November 2024

What a little gem we discovered when we walked round the corner from Faringdon Underground Station. Maggie had booked an Art and Architecture tour of Charterhouse. We found ourselves in Charterhouse Square, a very sedate part of the City of London, entering Tudor style buildings, fronted by a knot garden.