A lesson to be learned. If you don’t keep up with your blog, you end up mixing topics like silver rings and poets. I’ll start at the beginning.
Last Sunday, (8th May) Jessica Noonan treated us to another Silver Ring making workshop. This time, the choice was yours. Make 2 silver rings or make one ring with a stone. Both offers were taken up and we had some beautiful finished pieces. There was a fair bit of sawing, hammering, soldering, sanding and polishing first though. But it was worth it!
And then the Poets.
Last Friday, a group of poets and/or poem appreciators gathered upstairs at BEANS to read a poem (or two)….. and/or to listen to poems read by others. There were poems about miners, pets, war, shoes, women, ward sisters, turning 50 and….. well, I can’t remember them all. But it was good and there was a lot of laughing and thinking and even time for some chatting. So….. we’re going to do it again. Obviously it won’t be exactly the same – new and different poems are calling us. If you’d like to come along, the next Share a Poem Evening is on 24th June from 7 – 9 pm. We have an 8.30 watershed – well, you know what poets are like. You can read a poem you’ve written – one written by someone else – or just sit and listen. It reminds you just how powerful, moving, funny and fun words can be. And the people are nice too!