Delightful Book Club last night at Wick Court. Each one of us had either prepared a poem to read or a song. The meal was “Rat Stew”, Trench cake and cocoa. \u00a0Poems as expected were moving and thought-provoking. Not sure what the\u00a0modern\u00a0revisionists (led by Mr Gove) would say about our choices of Owen, Dobell, Gurney, Caroline Ann Duffy, and\u00a0Kipling. Certainly wouldn’t have approved of “Oh What a Lovely War”\u00a0or Eric Bogle’s moving “And the band played Waltzing Matilda” sung by our Aussie member!<\/p>\n
The gig on Monday went well. Not easy telling a WW1 story to a whole school audience (4-11). I ended on the Christmas Truce because it does give some hope!\u00a0 I did a question and answer session with the children afterwards and was asked some searching questions. Now preparing some bird tales for next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Delightful Book Club last night at Wick Court. Each one of us had either prepared a poem to read or a song. The meal was “Rat Stew”, Trench cake and cocoa. \u00a0Poems as expected were moving and thought-provoking. Not sure … Continue reading