Meeting report for Tuesday 19th April

Apologies from; Les, Ray and Trish.

Members present were; Dave, Tony, Dick, Liliane, Jane, Jack, Sandy, Kathy, Sally, Beryl, Martin, Stephen Gemma and Barry.

It was a strong attendance on the night for our first ‘picture’ evening exercise.

The picture, in fact, turned out to be a stretched canvas depicting three wolves in a snowy forest setting. The canvas was stretched onto a slight cane frame with dreamcatchers and other native Indian artifacts. Thank you, Gemma, for our ‘canis lupus’ evening.

Even with fourteen Scribblers present the contributions were varied to the extreme with stories ranging from the frontier of North America to the imaginings of inhabitants of Suffolk. We had wolves proper in Alaska and Canada, members of the criminal fraternity and the stuff of nightmares, the werewolf.

All these were produced in thirty five minutes of concentrated writing, the content of which was in no way diminished by the time scale imposed. Another impressive meeting.

I would like to take a second to say welcome to our newest member, Sandy’s daughter Sally, who overcame what is a common hang up for all of us at some time, i.e. throat nerves when reading out our work. ‘Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking’ and all that.

Well, folks, have a wonderful holiday and I will be in attendance for the Bill Budner meeting on the 17th of May. I’m off to the sunny Isle of Wight for a week so Dick will be in the hot seat at our next meeting on Tuesday 3rd May when the 1,000 word assignment is on 'Money'.

Enjoy the sunshine and keep scribbling.

Barry.