Category: Literature
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Cryptic Crosswords Offer Learning!
Our Cryptic Crosswords group met on Wednesday 12 November 2025 to work on some more brain-teasers. As well as testing the word skills, there was also a testing of General Knowledge required for a variety of clues from many of the daily newspapers and magazines available. The group was particularly pleased to find “grasshopper” when…
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Stories on Boating Building & Prison
Our Creative Writers met on Wednesday 05 November 2025 for a session with new stories, and for a rehearsal for their upcoming session at the Monthly Meeting on 26 November 2025. We started with an interesting piece from a barrister in training make a first visit to a murderer in prison who was trying to…
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Creative Writers ready for Holidays
Our group of Creative Writers met on Wednesday 15 October 2025 with their recent compositions on a variety of subjects set at the previous meeting. Perhaps it is the time of year, but there was much looking forward to the future and to holidays and trips hither and yon. We had advice on how to…
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We Started the Miller’s Tale
At our English Literature session on Tuesday 09 September 2025, we continued our reading of a selection of the tales from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales with the Miller’s Tale. The Miller is a forthright character who is big, noisy and at this stage of the pilgrimage to Canterbury a little the worse for drink. His…
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Creative Writers Find a Way
Thirteen of our Creative Writers met on Wednesday 20 August 2025 to share their latest contributions, and to update their proposed offerings for the Creativity Event on 26 November 2025. We heard a letter to an Agony Aunt concerning a sister that had come to lunch bringing a much younger boyfriend. The reply advised her…
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Creative Writers Travel the World
Our Creative Writers met for their session on Wednesday 06 August 2025, and in the process of a couple of hours, they seem to have travelled the world. We started with a story set in the UK and Dharamshala (the home of the Dallai Lama in India). We then moved to Chile for a story…
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2 Unexpected Guests for Playreaders
Our popular Playreading Group has now split into two groups, but there were two unexpected guests at their meeting on Monday 28 July 2025. One was our webmaster who attended to see what goes on in a Playreading Group. The other was a play by Agatha Christie, “The Unexpected Guest” first produced in London in…
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Creative Writers Travel the World!
Our Creative Writing Group met on 02 July 2025 to progress the current projects, and to look forward to the demands that will be placed on the group later in the current year. Some pieces featured fictional locations which don’t appear on Google Maps, whilst others were much closer to home. We had a poem…
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Creative Writers Tell Their Stories
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…
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Chaucer’s View on Pardons for Sale
Our English Literature Group met on Tuesday 29 April 2025 to examine the Pardoner’s Tale in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales with our Group Leader David reading from the text in both Middle and Modern English. The sale of pardons was common practice in Chaucer’s time, although later on Pope Pious V outlawed the financial aspect of…