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Jan: Meeting
Feb: Made in Hull
Mar: World Stories
Apr: Training Day
Apr: Meeting
May: Walking Festival
Jun: Dreamtime
Jul: Revolution
Aug: Plotting
Sep: Freedom Festival
Sep: Plotting
Oct: Shonaleigh
Nov: AGM / Stories
Nov: Battered & Berthed
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July 2017 - The French Revolution
An evening in the hospitable town of Withernsea,
with bracing breezes, seaside fish and chips and stories of revolution in the pub.
Amongst other stories we had a very entertaining evening including rebellion at school,
broken legs and blessings, giant poetry, tales of outstanding courage, and talking fish
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Andrea
A tale of quietly determined revolution.
Alice Etheridge Beck Dale.
Born in 1890 – she lived to be 107.
She bucked the trend of Edwardian Southern Belles by learning to ride astride a horse (not side saddle); studied music in New York;
went to Paris in 1918 to help the WW1 Effort;
outlived her husband by 60 years and was the oldest living person in the Sate of Georgia.
Andrea’s grandmother.
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Cath
Fiddler on the roof, memories evoking personal journey.
Sadness turning to hilarity as mistaken for a working girl.
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Steve L
Revolution in a petit bourgeois way.
Moving house when some have none.
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Elaine
Talking salmon.
Be careful what you wish for.
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Richard
Poem narrative in 2 parts.
Boy captured by a giant then escaping.
Pun silly poem ‘Super fish oil’ injuries.
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Susan
The heading and the Date – Poem on day-dreaming in class and teacher being sarcastic and cross.
Rebel at Grammar school
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Roslyn
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Chinese story.
Old peasant man demonstrated that through a lost and found horse and the broken leg of his son, that misfortune is often blessings in disguise.
His son couldn’t fight in a war where all the village young men were killed because of his broken leg.
Beyond appearances life has other meanings.
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