Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on Tuesday 19 May 2015
Present: Dave, Dick, Richard, Barry, Liliane, Beryl, Suzy, Mariead, Jane, Cathy.
Apologies: Tom, Caz and Tony
General business:
Reading Scribblers' work at a local care home: Mairead mentioned to the meeting that there is a local care home where the residents are very interested in writing, and that they would like to hear some of Scribblers stories. Could we consider going and doing some reading? Perhaps anyone interested could let Mairead know?
Display boards: these have now been purchased (thanks to Dave for facilitating this). Their first outing will doubtless be to the Book Festival, but we hope also to use them within libraries and perhaps local businesses to raise the group’s profile.
Les’s funeral: the group voted for cash to be given to Cancer Research. Beryl collected monies at the meeting, but won’t write a cheque until after the funeral, in case there are other donations on the day.
Holidays: for anyone going away for half term week, we wish them a good time, but expect, of course, that they will still be scribbling, wherever they are!
Chocolate biscuits: thanks yet again to Mairead for a delicious selection.
Bill Budner Trophy night:
Our thanks must go first of all to Beryl and to Dick, who kindly read all ten entries for us. And what entries they were! As is always the case, the trophy night brought forth some exceptional work, and despite the best attempts of some of us, it was almost impossible to guess the authors of the pieces of work. There were several surprises when we all claimed ‘our’ pieces after the winners had been announced.
The winner, with the gripping but dark tale ‘His girls’, was Jane.
In second place was Suzy, who told her story ‘Sir Jolly and the dragon’ entirely in rhyming couplets.
Third place went to Dave, with his suspense filled tale ‘Waiting time’.
We all agreed that it had been extremely difficult to choose three from the varied selection available. Entries not placed in the top three were as follows.
Barry: The interview
Cathy: Death by woman
Beryl: Surveillance
Richard: Trouble
Dick: A brother’s scheme
Mairead: What do you do all day, Tom Bey?
Liliane: It’s not like it used to be
Next meeting: Tuesday 2 June, when the homework theme is ‘contradiction’ or ‘contradictions’, courtesy of Beryl
