Category: Literature
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Canterbury with Chaucer continues…
Our series on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales continued with David on Tuesday 28 January 2025. As well as meeting more of the party of 29 travelling to Canterbury in the latter part of the 14th Century, our analysis of the party and the descriptions provided by Chaucer came in for close examination. Why are only some…
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To Canterbury with Chaucer Begins!
On Tuesday 14 January 2025, our literary journey to Canterbury began under the guidance of David. We started with an introduction to the life of the Geoffrey Chaucer whose life is well documented. He held a number of interesting posts, some of which resulted in him travelling to France and Italy. His homes in London…
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Exciting Morning of Creativity
Our Monthly Meeting for November was once again a showcase for the creative talents of our members. There was a gallery of watercolour paintings, an oil painting, and a plentiful portfolio of 16 short stories and poems. Not to be outdone, there was a selection of home-baked culinary masterpieces being sold as part of our…
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So How & Where Does Sir Gawain End?
Our English Literature Group came to the end of the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and found out what happened to Sir Gawain and how it all ended. SPOILER ALERT – There is a happy ending! Our Group Leader David was able to take us beyond the text of the poem – thought…
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Creative Writers Produce New Stories
Our Creative Writing Group has been hard at work once again, telling some interesting stories on the choice of themes provided by their Group Leader. This time the choice was Planning for a Journey, an Escape, or any other story that takes the author’s fancy! Amongst the stories provided to the group were The History…
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Creative Writing Has No Boundaries
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…
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Creative Writers Create Holmes Child
Our Creative Writing Group met on 03 July 2024 for another session where they shared their stories. The brief for this meeting was a choice of “Escapes”, “A Surprise”, “Baker Street” and “Waterloo”. Interestingly, our writers were able to expand these topics into each other, creating some really interesting ideas. We had some local limericks…
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Writers Tackle Unanswerable Question
Our group of Creative Writers met on Wednesday 03 April 2024 to offer their contributions to the group, as usual. There were several topics on offer including “If only …” – the unanswerable question. Given that, for the moment, travel in time is not possible, we cannot answer the question “What would have happened if…
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Creative Writers take to Space
Images courtesy of Stable Diffusion On Wednesday 06 March 2024, our group of Creative Writers were issued a challenge – to write a short peace using a Science Fiction Theme, or a Magical Realism Theme, or a continuation of our theme on Conflict. Always up for a challenge, we heard ten amazing short stories, varying…
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Charles Dickens phones our Writers
Our Creative Writing Group met on Wednesday 07 February 2024 to share their work on three different briefs. The first brief was ‘Conflict’, the second was one side of a phone call (making the other side’s contribution implied but clear), and the third brief was to describe a room or place really clearly. On Conflict,…