Text Box: Page 1 Text Box:                My vest! I was looking at my vests today, I wear one when it’s cold. And most looked pretty seedy Though one was far from old!   If I should get knocked down one day I must be smartly clad. And ensure that all my underwear Will make the doctors glad.   But the problem that arises I’m sure you will agree, Is how do I make certain That my best vest is on me?   I guess that you wake up one day And sense that there is gloom, So clad in vest pristine and new Go out to meet your doom.  Paul brickell, hon president                                                             Paul Brickell, Hon President

Text Box: MEMORIES—Thanks to Brenda In response to the article by Brenda Rowbotham in the January Newsletter. I read Brenda Rowbotham’s article entitled “My Involvement in Music”, and memories of my mother -in- law, Lily Walker, who died in 1998, came    flooding back.  The article had me searching out a home-produced booklet which Lily wrote in 1987,  after Jack, her husband of 51 years, died.  It was entitled ‘My Music 1948-1968, 20 Glorious Years. Like Brenda, she sang at The Royal Festival Hall and The Albert Hall in 1951, during the Festival of Britain.  She sang The Messiah with the        Huddersfield Choral Society under Sir Malcolm Sargent many times and saw his last concert in 1967. The Choral Society took her out of the country for her first time abroad.  She went to Vienna in 1958, where they sang The Hallelujah Chorus in the woods, unaccompanied — she said it was like singing to heaven itself.  The Choral Society visited and sang in Berlin and Brussels. In 1969 she went to Boston USA with them and was able to stay after the concert and travel on to Canada to see her brother, who had emigrated.  She came back on           ‘La France’, a large liner, crossing the Atlantic from New York to           Southampton in stormy seas.  Music was the key to a bigger world for a Yorkshire mill girl. She concludes her booklet with a chapter on her life, and I am so glad she did.  I could not have passed on this information, and history would have been lost to my children and grandchildren.  She died in 1998, and though her son and I divorced, I kept in touch and she dedicated a copy to me and my partner.  Sadly her only child died soon after in 1999, aged 61.                 I discovered that Lily and Jack married in 1935 and bought a newly-built, two bed semi for £385.  They went to Vienna for their 50th Wedding Anniversary, another dream realised, paid for by her loving family and truly appreciated. Have you a memory or three for your grandchildren ? Get it into print before it is too late! member                                      llllu       Pat walker, member u3a

Text Box: From the Editor:- What a beautiful phrase from Lily Walker after singing the Hallelujah Chorus in the Vienna Woods “ she said it was like singing to heaven itself.”  How very powerful  the image projected by these few words. Thanks Pat for your response. Text Box: Geology and landscape We have been looking at the Weymouth Anticline, that is the rocks and how they relate to the landscape of the area from Portland Bill to the Ridgeway.  Why there are hills like Lanehouse Rocks Road, the road up to the Portland Heights Hotel, Southill or low lying areas like The Marsh, Broadwey, Radipole Lake - why streams mostly flow where you expect them to but also where you don’t expect them to—not only the beauty of the view from New Ground, Portland, but also thinking about why the water of Portland harbour is there and the half dozen ridges to be seen   between there and Hardy’s Monument. Group members have been investigating the particular area where they live and talking to the rest of us, illustrated with slides and handouts. We have had an invited speaker from the Geology Department of Weymouth College with scores of mineral samples from his collection. Geology really comes to life in the field and we have been out looking at the River Wey and some of its tributaries —at the highly mobile cliff of the Underbarn with its many slips and slides and walked the ridge from Portesham Quarry to Corton Hill. You can see there’s plenty going on: we are looking at Lulworth Cove and East Dorset next, so if you fancy finding out more about “The Jurassic Coast” come and join us. Jim malthouse, geology & landscape coordinator