Report from our last meeting

Members present: DAVE, DICK, JACK, JANE, ANGELA, BERYL, MARTIN, TRISH, STEPHEN, LES AND BARRY.
Apologies: Liliane, Tony

The homework was pre set periods in our time.

Once more Scribblers, the meeting was excellent. The pieces presented ranged from very interesting history lessons to stories using real or legendary characters woven into real or imagined articles.

'The Future,' was the period for Dick and his piece was entitled Deadly Cargo concerning weird creatures on a spaceship.

Jane offered an atmospheric piece called 'The Angel' set during the Roaring Twenties.

Jack (last minute writing, as usual) gave us a clever story from Anglo Saxon times called 'AD791.'

Angela gave us the true story of Flora Sandes, who fought in Serbia during the first world war
called 'The forgotten heroine of WW1'

'Norman England; 1066 and all that (followed)' was Dave's contribution

My (Barry) humble piece was from English folklore of the King Arthur's Middle Ages called 'The Green Knight.'

Roman Britain was from Les with 'A letter home,' a missive from a Roman Soldier serving in England, seven years after leaving home.

Trish gave us a fascinating history lesson on the Vikings and their influence in later years.

Stephen entered the fray with an extremely thought provoking piece called 'The time Machine' taking us through pre-history.

The English Civil War and Stuart England came from Martin with another very interesting piece called 'Father and Sons'.

'Water Music' came from Beryl, a story from Georgian times of Handel's music played on a Royal barge.

I felt positively shamed by the recall and knowledge of our members concerning the history of Great Britain.

My only lasting memory of the subject was of King James V1 and 1, the King with a Scottish and an English title and his marriage to Ann a lively 14 year old from Denmark. Still that's another lesson altogether.

An extremely interesting exercise taking many of us out of our writing comfort zone, producing more work of the highest calibre.

The next meeting will be held on the 5th of April when the homework subject will be 'Chimney or chimneys".

Thanks to all who attended and to those scattered around the world with enough interest to follow the group activities.

Barry