Every member contributes
Margaret Parker welcomed a small group to the February Play Reading Circle get together for Women’s Club members and friends.
The theme was Poetry and Prose.
Each member contributed a reading with a wide variety of comedy, history and a mix of both of these. A comedy from Joe Bennett started the evening, and was most entertaining.
Following on, we heard stories heard in shearing sheds, goldfields and other places where ‘‘blokes’’ gather, and compiled by Joe Charles. Potted history, in the form of The Peasants are Revolting took us through some of Britain’s most ludicrous laws which included the law that it is illegal to die on Parliament premises. Next we heard about an elderly couple about to be wed, who asked many questions about the type of items their pharmacist sold, and decided they would use his store for their wedding present list.
Pam Ayers, always popular, was featured with her very funny Puddings, and Patience Strong brought nostalgia, as did a short description of the life of Robert Burns and the reading of two of his poems.
An elderly lady mourned the modern changes that made her church unfamiliar to her, and Roald Dahl’s story of the Matron who put shaved soap in the mouth of a snoring child took us back to a severe era.
There was a short story about a conifer tree with a lifetime guarantee bought from a garden centre, but the conifer died the next day. The buyer was told the life had ended, therefore so had the guarantee.
A reading, Shopping for a Bathing Suit, was very funny and the evening finished with two poems written by a member herself, both very funny.