Interest groups meet weekly, monthly or randomly, and are coordinated by a member with an interest in the activity. Your ideas and help are appreciated to keep these groups vibrant.
MAHJONG
Anne Doyle:
Usually the third Thursday of the month at 1.30pm
Our first Probus Mahjong of the year will be on Thursday 20 February, 1:30pm
at Green Gables, 241 Bridge St. Looking forward to seeing you all.
HAPPY SNAPPERS
Warren Dellow:
Tuesday 18 February, 2.45pm
The topic for this meeting will be: ‘Action’. The Happy Snappers first meeting
of the year will be on Tuesday 18 February at Warren and Leonie’s house, 171
Panorama Drive, Enner Glynn, with a 2:45pm start time
CYCLING
Allan Kilner:
Weekly on a Tuesday at 9.30
MONDAY WALKERS
The Nicholson's
Meet at 9.30am, walk for up to an hour at your own pace. We explore
different areas/cafes between Atawhai and Richmond. All walks are flatish.
Coffee & Cake from 10.30am. Just joining us for coffee? Let the organiser
know by 9.30am, so we can confirm numbers with the café. If seriously wet,
just coffee & chat at 10.30am.
3 Feb: Nelson Anniversary – no organised walk
10 Feb: Maitai Valley walk – follow the river to the golf course
PARK: The sports ground just after Jeckell’s Bridge
COFFEE: Melrose House
17 Feb: Hoddy Estuary Park
(A bit outside our usual area but a good walk with some shade.)
PARK: just off the Coastal Highway, next road after Research
Orchard Road.
COFFEE: Grape Escape
24 Feb: Orphanage Stream
PARK: Saxton Field Netball Courts
COFFEE: Pics
SOCIAL BRIDGE
SOCIAL GOLF
Derek Newman:
Usually the first Monday of the month
Weather dependent – check with Derek.
GOURMET GROUP
Peter Jamieson
Gourmet Group members have received the first quarter’s menu – Pacific Rim
fusion. Hosts will be busy organising a date for their guests. This dinner should
be completed by March/April 2025.
LOOKING OUT
Tony Elliott:
Usually the last Friday of the month
Friday 28 February in the Nelson Golf Club boardroom, at 12.30pm. Measuring
your carbon footprint and arrangements for its possible offset.
Friday 28 March in the Nelson Golf Club boardroom. Defyd Williams, with over
25 years of teaching and teacher training experience, will explain the need for,
and progress of change in, the School History Curriculum.
BOOK CLUB
Heather Heath
Usually the second Tuesday of the month at 3pm
Book group will meet at 3pm on 11 February at Lee Blunt’s home, The Quay 2,
Apt. 204, 283 Wakefield Quay.
The book is “The Women” by Kristin Hannah.
MOVIE (and PIZZA)
GROUP
Usually the third Wednesday of the month
The next movie night will be Wednesday 19 February. If you are interested in
being on the email list, please let Louise or Karen know. They will email the
relevant movies closer to the time. Please let them know if you would like to
join the group for pizza after the movie.
LUNCH BUNCH
Sally Astridge:
Usually the Wednesday of the week following the Club Meeting.
The Lunch Bunch will meet for the first time this year at 12:00, on Wednesday,
26 February, at The Hardy Street Eatery.
For those of you who visited the cheese shop at Factory Corner, Richmond,
and listened to the very knowledgeable Virginnia Taylor (Heather and
Graeme’s daughter) you will be delighted to hear that she has opened a retail
outlet immediately opposite The Hardy Street Eatery.
SOCIAL CLIMBERS
Note: Social Climbers planning meeting - Thursday 20 February 2025, at The
Leonie Cameron:
Honest Lawyer at 3pm. All welcome.
Emerald Pool: Pelorus (Te Hoiere) River - Thursday 27 February
Our first walk for 2025 is to the Emerald Pool on the Pelorus Track. The Pelorus
Track heads along the true left of the Pelorus River through native beech-
podocarp forest. This ‘there-and-back walk’ will take us at least an hour and a
half, one way.
Note this track is tramping grade. After the first km a (1 person only) swing
bridge crosses a side stream, Scott Creek. The track has a number of places
where you have to clamber over tree roots and rocks, and occasionally cross
unbridged creeks.
To get to the start of the track: turn right off SH6 just before Pelorus Bridge
into Maungatapu Road. Follow the road for 14km to the start of the track
where there is parking. Initially t