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Tom's May Publicity
25/04/2020
If you did not already know, 2020 diaries shows Monday May 4th as a Bank Holiday - this is incorrect. This has now been changed to Friday 8th to celebrate VE Day, - but only after all diaries and calendars have been printed for 2020.
Our website, www.fordingbridgecameraclub.org.uk contains our programme of talks by visiting top photographers and experienced club members. These are coupled with opportunities to show your work on top quality equipment and have it commented on by experienced photographic judges.
We normaly meet at Avonway Community Centre at 7.30pm on Wednesdays but have temporarily suspended meetings for the next few months. Our website, www.fordingbridgecameraclub.org.uk will keep you up to date. Unfortunately we have had to postpone our free exhibition planned for this year until 2021.
A virus, in the immortal words said by the British Nobel laureate sometime ago, is “a piece of bad news wrapped up in a protein.”
Reading can useful if you are housebound during the current troubles. If you would rather stay at home and read a book, remember Groucho Marx’s advise – “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read”.
Old newspapers hold a lot of interesting information. The Aberdeen Evening Express reported that “At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coast guard and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied he was sorry, but he didn't have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff”.
My favourite was the report in the Bournemouth Evening Echo that Mrs Irene Graham of Boscombe, reminiscing about a German prisoner of war who was sent to work in her garden each week. He was repatriated at the end of 1945 and she recalled that “He seemed a nice friendly chap but when the crocuses came up in the middle of our lawn in February 1946, they spelt out Heil Hitler”.
Some comments made by Underground Drivers at peak periods are included: 'To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage -- what part of stand clear of the doors don’t you understand?” During an extremely hot rush hour on the Central Line, the driver announced in a West Indian drawl: 'Step right this way for the sauna, ladies and gentleman... Unfortunately towels are not supplied.”
The Daily Telegraph, some time ago reported – Commenting on a complaint from a Mr. Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West Gas said, “We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It’s possible Mr Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that destroyed his house.”
Our website, www.fordingbridgecameraclub.org.uk contains our programme of talks by visiting top photographers and experienced club members. These are coupled with opportunities to show your work on top quality equipment and have it commented on by experienced photographic judges.
We normaly meet at Avonway Community Centre at 7.30pm on Wednesdays but have temporarily suspended meetings for the next few months. Our website, www.fordingbridgecameraclub.org.uk will keep you up to date. Unfortunately we have had to postpone our free exhibition planned for this year until 2021.
A virus, in the immortal words said by the British Nobel laureate sometime ago, is “a piece of bad news wrapped up in a protein.”
Reading can useful if you are housebound during the current troubles. If you would rather stay at home and read a book, remember Groucho Marx’s advise – “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read”.
Old newspapers hold a lot of interesting information. The Aberdeen Evening Express reported that “At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coast guard and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied he was sorry, but he didn't have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff”.
My favourite was the report in the Bournemouth Evening Echo that Mrs Irene Graham of Boscombe, reminiscing about a German prisoner of war who was sent to work in her garden each week. He was repatriated at the end of 1945 and she recalled that “He seemed a nice friendly chap but when the crocuses came up in the middle of our lawn in February 1946, they spelt out Heil Hitler”.
Some comments made by Underground Drivers at peak periods are included: 'To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage -- what part of stand clear of the doors don’t you understand?” During an extremely hot rush hour on the Central Line, the driver announced in a West Indian drawl: 'Step right this way for the sauna, ladies and gentleman... Unfortunately towels are not supplied.”
The Daily Telegraph, some time ago reported – Commenting on a complaint from a Mr. Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West Gas said, “We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It’s possible Mr Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that destroyed his house.”