From bad to verse............... (From Oxford Mail)

From bad to verse...............

1:31pm Sunday 9th August 2009

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Tuesday night was audition night for the November production 'A Brief Encounter with Noel Coward featuring Still Life'. One Nick O' Keeffe is directing the show which runs from 26th - 28th November. The plan is to host a gala supper evening on the Saturday night in honour of the group's 60th anniversary to which we are hoping to invite former members to join us. Should any ex-members read this and you would like to attend the Gala night, please let me know.

The first part of the show will feature songs, poetry, readings and all things Noel Coward followed by the play Still Life.

Some of the readings on Tuesday were tremendous and most of the parts now cast.

Next Tuesday, we will look at the poems in more depth and to have an initial discussion on the backstage roles. Time 7.45 pm should any potential new members be interested.

Now one of my favourite topics is the great global warming scam. Can anyone explain to me how the weather people cannot forecast the climatic conditions further than three days away but we can be told that we are all going to fry in thirty years? Hellooooo……someone is having us on I reckon. Green taxes come to mind. Still why should we worry we will probably all be dead from swine flu, but then that is killing less people than ordinary flu. I truly believe all these scare stories are put about to keep us from thinking about how bad things really are. On top of the dire happenings created by Mr Brown’s economic miracle, thousands of real talented and creative people fleeing the country and leaving us with droves of left wing pen pushing tossers who have never done a days work their lives. Amen. I feel better for that.

I try to avoid upsetting anybody as I cruise through life, but I did irritate the talented ex-Chair Kate by intimating in this blog recently she had deserted the group. She did leave through ill health and I am happy to put things straight.

Kate I hope I am now forgiven.

True story of the week comes from the US.

An elderly man in Louisiana had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some apple, and peach trees.

One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn’t been there for a while, and look it over.

He grabbed a five- gallon bucket to bring back some fruit.

As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee.

As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.

One of the women shouted to him, 'we're not coming out until you leave!'

The old man frowned, 'I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.'

Holding the bucket up he said, 'I'm here to feed the alligator.'

Some old men can still think fast.

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