In July Phil Godfrey, a member of the local Rotary Group, gave us an insight into the work that his group and others are doing in Uganda. Money and goods that the group raise are being used to support a medical centre, school and orphanage over there. He spoke about his recent visit and the inspiring people he met while over there.

The speaker at our August core meeting was Wendy Westley who told us the story of early poetry, how it has developed and different styles of poetry. She described how she started writing poetry and her journey through to being published, both on-line and with her own book of poetry and short stories. It was a journey of many setbacks and pitfalls but was eventually very rewarding. She gave advice on how to handle the process to any would be authors in the audience. All of this was interspersed with readings of her poetry.