The Last meeting of 2012

Meeting Report

Chairman Anne arrived armed with at least three large bags of goodies and Audrey was already there setting out her wonderful mince pies.

Soon, Liz arrived to prepare and start heating the punch and we then set out the room with several tables with four chairs each. These had a coloured sticker on it and as the members arrived, Jean,recruited for the purpose, dished out at random coloured stickers for each member to display on their chests.

Thus, several teams of four all sat at separate tables for the quiz questions, composed by Anne and assisted by the charismatic Alex.

As things got underway, we collected our cups of the very nice punch to give us the festive spirit and sat down for two rounds of quiz questions before the break.

There were plenty of good nibbles and other delights to continue the Christmas flavour with crisps, cheese twists, chocolate biscuits and the like, to name but a few. But the main attraction at this point were Audrey's 'exceedingly good' mince pies which we all enjoyed no end, always the highlight of the evening.

Then we resumed our quiz with two further rounds, before the winning clever devil people on the winning table: Daisy, Chris and Diana and Colin Newnes who were rewarded with a box of chocolates, which were passed round for all to enjoy.

Finally, we all looked at some of the images which members had taken (or as Ken Scott would say 'Made') on Mike Eddowes extremely popular evening on Theatre photography, when our Auditor made a very convincing crook and Louise a dramatic murder victim. The authors each told us about their images and Mike declared his favourite image taken by our highly effective publicity lady Glen as it reminded him of one of his own best theatre advertising images!!

So, we all kissed each other and wished ourselves a very Happy Christmas and shoved off home.

Thank you Anne particularly for your hard work preparing a very successful evening.

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