June 2020

The group held another Zoom meeting on Wed 3rd June. General conversation drifted from the effects of the release of some of the “lockdown” restrictions, to the previous last few days of glorious weather. It was a little cooler on Wednesday, with some showers but all agreed that it was a welcome change, particularly for the gardens and the temptation of bending the “social distancing” rules was not as great. The general consensus of opinion was that our usual venue would probably not be open for at least another month. We did a 10 minute writing warm up on the subject of “What we liked best at school”, which in some instances turned into “What we disliked most at school”. All present read out their pieces of work and it was interesting to hear people’s various experiences. Submissions for the previous month’s homework “A meeting under the apple tree” had been published on the Slack worksite by most people and were discussed in general by the group. It was decide that submissions from two people, who were not yet members, would be considered further and any comments made by members would be communicated to these two people, by e.mail. The next meeting will be a Zoom meeting on Wed 3rd July. A homework project was set by Mark as “Next Year” (Things you are looking forward to), in the form of a poem of approx. 3 verses ( I interpret this as say 18 -24 lines). I look forward to hearing the things you are looking forward to. Until then, Takecare – Eric Newton Vice Chairman