Members present were Dave Dick Tony Liliane Rhani Beryl Les Martin Ray and
Barry.
Apologies from Janet and Carolyn.
The Homework subject for
this evening was 'Rent'
I was first to read for a change with Home Farm,
a story of a scream in the night that shatters the warm still air, the discovery
of a badly injured woman and the threat from down the lane.
Martin gave
us Knife, a tale of bad feeling and knife crime that was endemic on a poor
estate and the terrible trauma a knife crime inflicted on the mother of a
victim.
Les attended but apologised for his lack of work.
Beryl
gave us The Landlord, a true to life story of how immigrant families have been
abused and taken advantage of by ruthless landlords in the 50's and 60's such as
Peter Rachman.
Rhani gave us The tenants of Lost All Hall. the story of
Lucinda and Juliette who resided in the hall and their association with Bradley
Woodstock, the Earl who thought more of a missing book from the library than a
body that lay at his feet.
Liliane's story How to solve a soap problem
was in essence a tale of two Australian soaps and how the characters live laugh
and above all love in their respective programmes.
Tony had the
continuation of Chapter One of a new novel Following Wind and told of the
character we had met before, one that had a recurring cycle of being brought in
to the mortuary and narrowly avoiding an autopsy performed by a skeleton then
finding an old man in a separate room who tells him he can eat but then he will
find himself back in the cold room the next day.
Dick gave us Behind
closed doors. A couple, George and Emily and their decision to let out their
garage and the subsequent suspicion that surrounded the new tenant, only to find
it was a model railway club.
Dave gave us a continuation of Pauline's
Story concerning the young lady injured and her return to health helped by a
policeman who has left his family to love her back to health. He was worried
this day about not being able to pay Pauline rent but was assured he did enough
for her to forgo his rent.
This was another enjoyable evening and
although quite short, produced much fine work from all concerned.
The
meeting was informed that following the Library decision to implement charges
for our evenings, that there would be a choice for members of an annual fee of
£25.00 or members could pay £3.00 per meeting.
This will start from the 6th
of November this year, 2012.
Thanks to all those responding to my e mail
regarding their choices. It has helped the committee to hopefully arrive at an
acceptable conclusion.
The next meeting is the Bill Budner
competition where we each submit 1000 words of our chosen subject and enter them
anonymously on the night. We are hoping to have a reader in place to read all
the entries.
This meeting will be on the 18th September. See you all
there.
Barry
