Our Creative Writing Group met on Wednesday 07 August 2024 and there was no shortage of creativity on display at that meeting.

We heard how food has become an effective weapon of war, about the excitement of counting votes at an election, and the problems of travelling from Greece to Egypt in the 1970s.

We then had the confessions of a street security camera overlooking a public venue – as had been mentioned in the King’s Speech to Parliament in the previous month. Appropriately enough that was followed by Chapter 2 of a spy story with the details of a covert selection interview.

We heard about the early days of laser eye surgery from a professor who was helping out at a High Street Optician, and acting incognito to the customers coming into the store. That was followed by an exciting incident in Waterloo Station that started with Sauvignon Blanc and ended with a double-decker bus.

We closed firstly with an autobiography of a squirrel that was caught in a house and had to hide in a cupboard for several days, and secondly with a poem in praise of the Paralympians and Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had conceived the idea whilst working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Our next meeting will feature a Children’s Story, and more writings from animals!