Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on Tuesday 05 April 2016
Present: Dave, Liliane, Mairead, Beryl, Jane, Hayley, Jim, Tony,
Dick, Cathy,
Apologies: Caz, Jeanette, Gerry, Richard and Carolyn
Business:
FBF – Dave asked for volunteer readers for the Sunday morning slot, 10 –
10.30. Cathy, Beryl, Liliane and Mairead volunteered.
Our thanks went to Mairead, as ever, for the chocolate biscuit fix!
Upcoming events of interest.
- On Saturday 16 April there
is a talk at the Suffolk Record Office to launch Ray Whitehand's book
launch 'Four Tenements and a Hay House'. Booking is necessary for this –
contact the Record office. Ray is a well known local historian – his
website for those interested is historicalsuffolk.com
- On Tuesday 26 April our own
Jeanette Hewitt has the launch and signing of her latest novel, Exclusion
Zone, at Stillwater Books, Hamilton Road, Felixstowe, from 6.30pm.
- Tony handed out flyers to
advertise the Rushmere Players presentation of The Ladykillers, running
from Weds 20 to Sat 23 April at the Sir John Mills theatre in Ipswich.
Details of Rushmere Players 'Ladykillers' and are both shown on the
weblog (see next item) . The cast of Ladykillers includes virtually all those who starred
in The Lost Sock. .
Meeting:
The readings were mixed – some of us had written to the ‘library’ theme,
whilst others had brought along varied work.
Jim: Librarians
Some very famous people in history once worked as librarians and here
Jim explains who they were and what their personal feeling were for libraries
like Felixstowe. Mao Se-Tung, J Edgar Hoover, Giacamo Casanova and Philip
Larkin were but a few in this hilarious work. Believable? Of course!!!
Dave: The golden anniversary of Felixstowe library
The library dates back to 1928 before moving to the Orwell Road premises
in 1947. It was obvious the building wasn’t large enough but wasn’t until 1966
that the present Crescent Road building was opened. It became Felixstowe
Scribblers ancestral home yet the Scribblers formation details still remain a
mystery.
Hayley: A father’s face
Mairead: Fifty years and five generations at the Felixstowe library
Tony: Part of his novel
Dick: My first day blunder
Jane: Poem – Great Aunt Dolly goes green
Cathy: Oriental treasure
A museum visit leads to the unexpected discovery that an unappreciated
heirloom is actually extremely valuable. Its owner may see it with new eyes
now!
Beryl: The bowler hat
Liliane: 2003
As ever, all the work was tremendously varied, but always interesting.
Special mention has to go to Jim, whose highly original take on the library
theme was simply superb.
All in all another great meeting.
Next meeting: Our next meeting is on
Tuesday 19 April starting at 7.30pm. The homework theme is historical – and
Dick kindly provided us with a ‘lucky dip’ of different eras to select from.
