Secretary's Meeting Report

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