DISCUSSION GROUP
Leader: Chris Taylor
Contact. 07484 160660
Meetings: Fridays, 09.30 - 11.00am.
Venue: Community Centre, Driffield.
Summer Break
Please note that we are on our Summer break at the moment. Our next meeting will be on 15 September 2023.
The Discussion Group
We used to be the Study and Discussion group. It sounds a bit “back to school”, doesn’t it? Perhaps
it is. I don’t think any of us are too old to learn something new. This group has been part for the
Driffield and Wolds u3a for over 20 years now and we still find interesting things to talk about. So
what do we do?
We meet once a week in the spring, autumn and winter with a break for the summer, and we talk
about things. What kind of things? Over the 5 years that I have been a member we have discussed
history, art, science, medicine, books, poetry, mathematics, politics, our heroes…and pretty well
anything we can think of.
As the Study and Discussion Group we used to start our meetings by having someone talk about
something for half an hour or so. Then we’d discuss it. What we have found is that we tend to enjoy
the discussion a lot more than the “lecture”, so now we just launch into the discussion. So from now
on we are the Discussion Group.
We no longer have a set format for our meetings. If we’ve chosen a topic where one of us thinks he
or she is an expert, then they might talk about it for 5 or 10 minutes before we discuss it but usually
we’ll just launch into a discussion. One thing is almost guaranteed: the discussion will range far
beyond what we originally intended.
I’ve certainly learnt things. I would say I learn something new every week, even if it’s that everybody
is wrong except me.
Have a look at our programme for the coming weeks and see if there’s anything that grabs your
interest. I should say though, that we nearly always end up discussing a much wider range of stuff
than the topic implies.
Do you fancy joining in? If you do you’ll be most welcome. You shouldn’t feel daunted. We don’t all
feel we have to contribute every week. Indeed, sometimes I just sit and listen for the entire meeting.
And we’re not a bunch of intellectuals. Well, I think I'm an intellectual, but somebody usually puts me right.
Chris Taylor
| Dates for your Diary | |
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| Fri Apr 19th | Are charities now having to do things that the state should be doing? (19th April) We have food banks and charities that try to care for the homeless, the terminally ill, the lonely etc.? Should such charities be needed in a properly run society, or is their existence evidence that our society does actually care? The group meets on Fridays at 9:30 am in the Community Centre. More information from Chris on 07484 160660 |
| Fri Apr 26th | Our scariest or most embarrassing experiences Unfortunate experiences can be educational. They can be funny when they happen to somebody else. Will any of our members have the courage to tell us about events that filled them with horror or embarrassment? The group meets on Fridays at 9:30 am in the Community Centre. More information from Chris on 07484 160660 |