Our group of Creative Writers met on Wednesday 04 June 2025 to read their latest creations, and all agreed that this was a most entertaining session.

We started with the discovery of a female body in the undergrowth during a walk in the autumn sunshine, with the leaves lit up like amber lights. In the end, there had been a murder, and the man responsible was arrested and imprisoned. We then moved on to a letter from a female reader to an Agony Aunt in a publication following the discovery of a husband in bed with the maid. His misdeeds were only discovered because her car had boiled over and she had had to return home. The Agony Aunt could only offer advice on ensuring her car was properly serviced!

We then had a story about getting times of meetings wrong when the meeting had been booked whilst in Europe on Central European time. The phone had been too clever and changed the meeting time on returning to the UK. That was followed by a poem describing how a peacock butterfly samples the nectar of different flowers in a garden until it finds one that it likes. All agreed that the number of butterflies seems to be down this year.

We had another letter to an Agony Aunt about problems in the National Health Service and how times and expectations have changed over the past 50 years in a local hospital. The Agony Aunt had no answer to the problems, but blamed the management of her publication for refusing to pay for an AI system that could answer such readers’ letters. That was followed by the first instalment of a story about a young police woman who goes into a private detection agency and gets a job which requires her to fly to Italy where her family originally lived. We are all looking forward to the next instalment.

That led to a report on a chaotic return flight from a package holiday overseas. Initially, all the flights were delayed from the overseas airport owing to the weather, and then, following a night without sleep and arriving in the UK very early in the morning, our traveller found that the Car Service had not only mislaid his car, but had lost the car keys too! We then had a poem about the setting sun over an ocean, and how as it sets for us, it is rising elsewhere for the start of a new day.

We continued the session with a short excerpt from an autobiography about how a career in medicine had started, and we closed with a letter to an Agony Aunt accusing the aunt of being the other woman and steeling the writer’s husband! Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 18 June 2025 when we will continue with a choice of: Dramatic Change, More Excuses or a Letter to an Agony Aunt!