Speakers' Secretary's Report 2017-18
April
2017: Isles of
Scilly. Sue Henning was scheduled to talk
about the Isles of Scilly but because several other members had heard her talk
a few days previously we asked her if
she could talk about her trip to Japan.
It is an interesting country and she brought it to life showing
photographs of several places not on the usual tourist route.
May: Poles Apart. Linda Makepeace came to talk to us about two
trips she had made: one to the Arctic
Circle and one to the Antarctic. Both
places sounded fascinating. There were
lots of photographs but you have to be hardy to cope with these trips. Linda showed a video of her bathing in the
sea on Christmas Day.
June: Summer Tea Party. As it was the tea party we did not have a
speaker but games, and Charlie Manaugh sang some songs.
July : The Life and times
of Samuel Pepys. John Halligan is a City
of London Tour Guide. He gave us an
interesting talk with slides which covered the nine years of the diaries he
wrote.
August: This was our Coffee
Morning so instead of a speaker we had a fashion show which members seemed to
enjoy and had fun.
September : A-Z of Show-Off
Business. Christopher Hare gave a very
humorous and entertaining talk. He is a popular speaker who has visited us before
and has a wealth of stories about well-known comedians – most names very
familiar to us all. He kept us
chuckling for 45 minutes with his memoirs of his life in the world a theatre
and light-hearted entertainment.
October : Sadly our
scheduled speakers, Alan and Vera Baker, had retired due to ill health. In their place we had a Beetle Drive and
then entertaining reading from the drama group during the social half hour.
November : Harpist Margaret
Watson came to entertain us with her harp as she has done in the past. Her programme contained music from many
genres with flashes of humour included.
December : Christmas Lunch. As usual, no speaker but a slap-up lunch at
The Chateau.
January 2018: A King and his Castles. Neil Lloyd regaled us with a history of the
life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, and his talk was illustrated with slides
which featured the fairy tale castles he built, and his association with the
composer Wagner.
February : Bearskins and
Bayonets. Don Doncaster gave us an illuminating
talk on his life in the Grenadier guards, a life he undertook from the young
age of 15. Conditions were quite
Spartan for young boys living in the barracks, but his chosen lifestyle gave
him opportunities to travel abroad as well as be a member of the guards
marching and playing instruments at the Trooping of the Colour to celebrate the
Queens’ birthday.
March: Our AGM. As usual, no speaker but the drama group
provided good entertainment.
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