Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on 04 February 2020
Present:
Dave, Liliane, Georgina, Martyn, Stephen, Jane H, Kay, Tony, Arlette, Cathy, Justin, David, Carole, Beryl, Jim, Derek, Liz, Glynis
Apologies:
Tom, Jane B
Business:
Mairead Reidy trophy. Last year there was a four way tie for first place in the competition we hold in Mairead’s memory. Carole had the trophy for three months, and brought it in so it could be presented to Georgina for her three month turn. A photograph was taken, which will appear on the weblog in due course.
Caz passed on a message from the sister of one of our much missed members, Les, to say how much she had enjoyed our last anthology. Nice to know that Les’s memory lives on through the group’s work.
Liz is finalising details of the meal that some of us are going to on 11 February at the White Horse.
Weblog – apart from a few technical hitches, Georgina is happy managing this. She asked that we send her anything that we may like included on it.
Readings of homework: the theme was ‘the dinner date’, and all seventeen stories we enjoyed had an unusual/different take on the theme – what imaginations we all have!
Carole – 742 – The dreamcatcher
Jane H – 560 – Dead right
Derek – 710 – Good Old Liam
David – 712 – The monastery
Georgina – 750 – Date night
Liz – 730 – Dinner date on the balcony
Kay – 460 – Shared sorrow
Dave – 742 – Our dinner date beckons
Arlette – 735 – Synchronicity
Jim – 670 – When Janice met Darren
Liliane – 623 – So now goodbye
Tony – 749 – the end of last time’s story titled ‘The copper fortress’
Glynis – 754 – The dinner date
Martyn – 380 – Skipper
Beryl – 748 – The plot
Justin – 745 – One careless owner
Next meeting: 18 February. This is the Jack Wilkinson competition, and the entries are to be stories about children. Usual competition rules apply – 750 words maximum, entries to be printed on one side of paper, ideally in Arial 12, stapled together, no identifiers.
