Bill Budner evening.

Firstly I must give Ruth, our resident successful author and thespian, an enormous vote of thanks for reading our nine stories. Mostly they were, as usual, each different in their own way and each worthy of a mention in despatches, but last night was all about the Bill Budner Trophy and our praise goes this week to Liliane, with her story;

'We have to be very good'.

The story of two girls and Moriarty the cat plus their mother who likes things to be in their place and last but not least the eldest girls narrative tells of her father, who, she discovers, is a murderer and had spent 14 years in prison for killing someone. He, and the family, have been given a new identity and the young girl then fantasises about becoming a detective to search out her father's true name and another set of grandparents.

Equal second place was awarded to Tony for his 'Tale of many parts', one thousand words of whimsy in Tony's inimitable style telling of part man part creature with odd arms and a huge right foot. The words were, in true Tony style and gave everyone a huge laugh as it was read by by Ruth, who did a sterling job as she struggled to keep a straight face.

The story that tied with Tony's was Dick's tale of 'Forget form TT109' This gave us a tale of a man, recently deceased, who arrives at the pearly gates to find it a strange place with people dressed from different eras mixing with his contemporaries. The reason for this was the 150 year time zone each deceased person was allowed to visit, even allowing for the language barrier with special pills.

As I said each story was worth a mention but the evening belonged to Liliane and as I've said before,
'you had to be there'.

Others stories were;
The best man's speech by Martin
The killer by Les
The 294th by Ray
Weekend away by Beryl
Party time by Barry
The morning after by Dave.

Thanks again to Ruth for her excellent reading and thanks to all who attended.

PLEASE NOTE: The next meeting is on 29th May when the homework subject will be 'Life or living".

See you then.
Barry.