Report on U3A General Meeting at Parkhouse Centre Thursday 18th February 2010.
“The Tintagel Storyteller” – Speaker Jill Lamède
Sylvia Henry opened the meeting with the sad news of Audrey Armitage’s death. She had been a founding member of the Bude and District U3A and had been on the committee for a number of years. She will be sadly missed. There was also the equally sad news of Jill Davies who is now in Stratton hospital and in a coma. Our thoughts and sympathy are with Iwan at this difficult time.
On a happier note, Gill Gilkes is making good progress and will shortly be home, we all wish her a speedy recovery. In the meantime, Mary Norman will continue to supervise the scrabble group.
All notices for Summer Schools, etc. were displayed on the back table for anyone interested. The trip to Agatha Christie’s house in April has been finalised Hilary advised and requested confirmation from those on the list and she will require the £26 cost at the next General Meeting.
Mary Dobson confirmed various theatre trips and also the proposed trip to Highgrove. There are presently 25 names on the list and there will be a charge of £15 per head entrance fee.
Sylvia proceeded to introduce this month’s speaker, Jill Lamède, who is the Tintagel Storyteller. She was colourfully dressed in a coat of many colours and proceeded to transport us with magical stories, prompted by her varied mixture of fascinating objects in her “story basket”, each of which produced a different tale. Various members of the audience were asked to pick an article and we all listened with wrapt attention to her varied tales, some funny, some serious, short and not so short, but all fascinating.
Lucille chose the fist article, a tiny model galleon and Jill lead us through the historical story of merchant ships sailing to the Far East and returning with silks and spices and facing the perils of pirates. On our galleon, at each encounter with the pirate ships, our heroic Captain would call “Boy, bring me my red shirt”, and the Captain would don this and alongside his crew, a valiant fight was fought and the pirates were repelled On the second day when two pirate ships were sighted, the boy asked his Captain, “Captain why do you always ask for your red shirt when fighting the pirates?” and the Captain replied, “Boy, I put on my red shirt so that if I should be injured, my crew would not be alarmed as they would not see the blood”.
On the last day, believing the pirates had been defeated, the Captain and crew were dismayed at the sight of 10 pirate ships, a whole armada. This time the Captain realising the peril, called “Boy, bring me my brown trousers.”!!!!!!
And thus a very pleasant afternoon was spent, enjoyed by all, we were entertained by stories prompted by articles as diverse as, a black cat, a parrot, a blue feather, which lead us through the magical and romantic tale of “Amber” a beautiful orphan, and a bag of gold to name just a few.
When finally we had to call it a day having run out of time, Hilary thanked Jill on our behalf for her imaginative and hugely entertaining stories.
Linda Bunker
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