What we did in 2020 and 2021

The pandemic greatly restricted our activities , especially for most of 2020 and the first half of 2021.

Here’s what we still managed to do:

Trip to Lyric Theatre for audio-described play:  January 2020.

Book club launched in October 2020, which has continued to meet monthly via Zoom throughout 2021 and beyond.

Monthly Zoom quizzes from mid-2020 to mid-2021.

Face to face coffee mornings resumed in June 2021.

Meal and social get-together at Pizzarelly’s Restaurant,   26^th June 2021

Visit to Balmoral Show: 22^nd September 2021.

Bowling evening and meal:  2^nd October 2021.

Christmas dinner at Crowne Plaza Hotel 16^th December 2021.

Our tandems got out for a few months in 2020 and again in 2021.

Tandem riders’ barbecue, Groomsport: 21^st August 2021.

Participation in walking and cycling day, Castlewellan 25^th August 2021.

Here’s what we did in 2019

In 2019 we undertook our biggest venture yet, taking 12 blind and partially sighted people to the annual sight Village technology exhibition in Solihull, England.

Other activities included:-

Visit to audio described comedy at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
Victorious participation in the Mayor of Lisburn and Castlereagh’s charity Quiz.
Visit to Belfast Botanic Garden Tropical Ravine.
Two pizza evenings.
Visit to Hilden Beer Festival.
Castlewellan cycling and walking day.
Bowling evening.
Christmas dinner

Monthly “Café & Co.” morning coffee gatherings.
Weekly Tandem cycling.
Fortnightly walks.

Here’s what we did in 2018

Visit to Civic Centre and Mayor’s Parlour.

Participation in Mayor’s charity cycle ride

Angling Experience.
Participation in Mayor’s charity quiz.
Visit to Viking Centre, Dublin.
Visit to audio described play at the Lyric theatre, Belfast.
Rally driving Experience.
Day trip to Bangor.
Cycling and walking day, Castlewellan.
Tour of Parliament Buildings, Stormont.
6-week Pilates course.
Ladies’ Make -up evening.
Christmas dinner.
Monthly “Café & Co.” morning coffee gatherings, plus some ”sip and sup” pub evenings”.

Weekly Tandem cycling.
Fortnightly walks.

Here’s what we did in 2017

Car driving experience at Altrak, near Craigavon.
Two visits to audio described plays, one at Grand Opera House and one at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.

Participation in Gran Fondo cycle ride.

Barbecue.
Cycling and Walking Day at Castlewellan.
Visit to Ulster American Folk Park, near Omagh, during Blue Grass Festival.
Fund-raising static tandem outside Tesco’s.
Fund-raising quiz.

Monthly “Café & Co.” morning coffee gatherings, plus some ”sip and sup” pub evenings”.
Weekly Tandem cycling.
Fortnightly walks.