Eighteen members attended this year’s annual diner
at the Ingliston Hotel and Country Club.
at the Ingliston Hotel and Country Club.
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The subject for today’s readings was “1918.”
Everyone was looking for a different angle from the obvious
celebration of the end of the First World War.
There was a mixture of fact and fiction, verse and prose.
Subjects included:- The ‘Spanish’ Flue epidemic,
The life of a
soldier in the trenches,
The commemorative
Poppy,
A commemoration
of the life and death of Nurse Edith Cavell,
The soldier on
leave with his family,
The start of
Female emancipation,
Individuals
who were born in 1918,
The ‘carve up’
of the Ottoman Empire after the defeat of Turkey,
A unique commemoration
by a village in Sussex,
The effect of
the 1918 Education Act,
The final years of Claude Debussy,
Street names in Europe commemorating battles and
liberation dates,
Overinflated
currency bank notes – discovered in an attic.
The changing
approach by War poets,
.
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The results of the Children’s short story competition have
been received back from Author Paul Bristow.
The winners read out their entries followed by the
adjudicator’s comments.
The winner was Elizabeth Gillespie with her story “The Ghost
Bear.”
Runner up was Wilma with poem “What Shall I Be?”
Sandra McGruther came third with the story of “The Lost
Egg.”
Elspeth Munro’s “Little Green Man” was highly commended.
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Next week - Deadline for Betty Munnoch Award Poetry Competion - Theme "Smell"
Open Manuscripts
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Next week - Deadline for Betty Munnoch Award Poetry Competion - Theme "Smell"
Open Manuscripts
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