Minutes of Scribblers meeting
held on Tuesday 7 April 2015
Present: Dave, Beryl, Liliane, Richard, Suzy, Dick, Barry, Mairéad, Cathy
Apologies: Tony, Jane, Caz.
Items of interest:
Sunday paper review for Radio Suffolk:
Richard told the group that he’d enjoyed reviewing the Sunday papers on
Radio Suffolk recently, despite the extremely early start. Barry is also
keen to be involved, so Dave gave him contact details etc, and will also notify
Radio Suffolk himself about Barry’s interest.
Three Scribblers get into print!
Dick has had a poem published. A while ago, someone who knows Dick’s
talent as a poet asked him to write a poem for them. However, it wasn’t until
Dick had agreed to their request that he discovered the theme was ‘refuse
collection’! Undaunted, he produced ‘The Bin Man Cometh’, which was recently
published in the magazine ‘Tips for Poets’, published by Wendy Webb.
We’re all hoping he’ll bring a copy of the poem in for our enjoyment!
Barry’s was the ‘Star letter’ in the May edition of Writing Magazine.
Richard has had two letters printed in The Guardian in a space of four
days.
Les:
Currently on Debenham Ward at Ipswich Hospital, but may be transferred
back to Felixstowe in next few days – no real decision yet. Sure he’ll
appreciate more visits wherever he is.
Ruth’s book launch:
One more reminder that our own Ruth Dugdall is launching her new book,
‘Humber Boy B’ at Felixstowe Library at 7pm this Saturday, 11th April – let’s
see how many of us can go along and support her.
Homework pieces, on the topic of ‘Horticulture’:
A truly difficult theme, we all agreed, but one which brought forth
really interesting work.
Barry: My normal day – no synopsis available
Dick: Secret Garden – prose
Lord Ridley, wealthy textile merchant, acquiesces
to his wife’s request to have the bland gardens of their massive estate
redesigned. The important and costly landscape artist hired to do the work is
unable answer Lady Ridley’s questions about the final design for the gardens,
as he doesn’t actually know himself!
Acute
Horticultural Blues – poem
The woes of a retired man who finds that despite reading appropriate
books and following
horticultural
guidelines, gardening is not the relaxing hobby it is purported to be,thus
he is diagnosed by his doctor as suffering
from Acute Horticultural Blues.
Dave: Needing attention
Whatever happened when Lady Arabella ran naked through the shrubbery
chased by the whooping head gardener? Whatever happened after father began an
affair with Arabella in the woods? They were alleged suicides with rat poison.
Arabella turned her charms my way so would rat poison be the death of me?
Richard: Horticulture
A truck driver is interviewed about his life on the road and how he
ends up with a suspended sentence while driving for Norfolk Horticulture.
Interviewer loses objectivity and joins the driving profession as a result.
Suzy: The history of horticulture
An explanation (????) of the creation of growing plants and thus,
horticulture, showing that there
is no contradiction between the Big Bang theory and Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Cathy: It were magic
Elderly Molly recounts her childhood move to Suffolk during the 1930s
depression when her family came to work at a horticultural
co-operative at Newbourne, and tells how, when the rest of her family returned
to their Norfolk roots after only a few years, she remained in Suffolk,
eventually marrying an Italian prisoner of war.
Liliane: A future in horticulture
Grandfather Eddy runs a Garden Centre, together with his youngest
daughter and husband. There are two grandsons who already have a future in
horticulture mapped out - well, at least their grandfather hopes they will
continue the business.
Mairead: The day horticulture died – no synopsis available
Beryl: The horticultwist
A mother takes her disabled daughter out regularly in her wheelchair to
enjoy the flowers in the park. The child has difficulties with speech, and when
she decides that she would like to take up horticulture when she grows up, the
closest she can come to pronouncing ‘horticulturist’ is ‘horticultwist’.
Our next meeting is on 21st April, when the homework is
a 1000 word historical piece, based in a period of our own choosing.
Cathy
