Apologies from: Martin, Dick and our secretary Barry.
Present: Tony, Angela A, Angela P,
Liliane, Les, Caz, Barry M, Beryl and Dave.
We had an advanced apology from
Martin who will miss the next couple of meetings due to attending a work based
course together with all the ensuing revision and paperwork. Then this
afternoon came news that both Dick and Barry were down with a bug, probably similar
to the regal one. Another phone call revealed a problem with one of our other members
and thanks to Caz for helping to make things better.
So it was with a little apprehension
that we opened the doors to a very small number of members but, fortunately, a
couple of late arrivals helped to boost the attendance.
The homework assignment was for up to
1,000 words on any historical period and what an eye-opener it was! Another
evening of creative wonderment.
Tony
opened the proceedings with “A Hole in the Sky” when a piece fell out of the
sky and landed somewhere on Earth. Then came a script that covered virtually
the whole of the football league making this a real history of football’s Neanderthals!
Barry
M provided a script of a play called “Moon or Bust” in which both
Caz and Les who, incidentally had no homework with them, took two of the
three parts. Here was a tale of how the Americans wanted to win the space race
to land on the moon but the cost was so prohibitive that a plan was devised
between the president and his sidekick to make a film of the landing here in a
film studio. Barry caught the full flavour of the conspiracy theory and Les had
the American accent to match.
Beryl
provided “Pelican Moments” which was an extract from her factual novel which is
now nearly finished. Roma and Roo were due to be married and she wanted to be
married by Father Henriques who worked in the East End of London. Roma and Roo spent
an idyllic time by the Serpentine where they watched a pelican swallow up an
apple in the water.
Angela
A called her work “Historical”. The village children had heard tales
and legends of ghosts yet went exploring the ruins where they found a hole in the wall
and reaching down discovered a bowl and some gold coins amongst other items. It
seemed that the Saxons looted the village and slayed all the occupants. A hoard of bronze coins were found and given to the children of the village whilst the
elders decided how best to use the gold coins.
Angela
P as usual produced a vivid tale of young Ken an evacuee who was
housed with an ugly and hairy aunt and uncle. Ken found a young leveret during
the winter which was kept in a lock up some way from his home. Ken used to
hide some of his food and also take radishes and lettuces from his Uncle’s
vegetable garden then slip away and feed the leveret.
Liliane
provided us with the historical master class “Waiting” Told in the first person
Anne awaited the outcome of the battle to see whether Henry Tudor or Richard III
won. She would be sure to be the queen of the victor whilst the defeated royal
would be certain to die. Set in 1484/85 Richard III’s skeleton was recently found
under a car park in Leicester.
Dave
came up with “Mysterious Craft on the Horizon” a tale of a villager from the
settlement who spotted the strange craft and wondered who the occupants were.
As the vessel approached the shore he realised they were Danish invaders like
those who pillaged and raped the township of Gyppeswyc in 991AD. He needed to warn
his people of the danger.
Following a short break we undertook
a ten minute writing exercise drawing a word from a document... “Glowing”. In
just ten minutes everyone present produced a diverse piece of creativity, and deserved a mention but one story stood out... from Les about a caterpillar and
a glow worm! Fantastic!
So ended another marvellous evening
of creativity and enjoyment.
Next week on 12th March we
are holding our social evening meal at the Brook Hotel at 7.30pm. If you would
like to go then please let Les, Barry or Dave know as soon as possible as an
idea of final numbers needs to be given to the hotel. Hope to see you
there. The food is good and we always have a good time!
Finally our next meeting will be on
March 19th when the subject matter will be 1,000 words on “Patience”
or “Patients”.
Hope our Barry and Dick get well
soon,
Until next time,
Keep Scribbling!
Dave
