Speaker Robert Booth told members at the May meeting that his alternative title for his talk was ‘Things Which Interest Me’, explaining that over a long period of time he had collected a large number of humorous anecdotes, newspaper clippings, famous quotes and other items which had caught his eye.
Over the next hour he proceeded to entertain members with a selection of these – mostly hilarious, some occasionally more serious, thoughts and observations.
He kept his audience enthralled and sometimes in fits of laughter with a wide variety of topics quoting from his favourite authors, among them Ian Fleming, George Orwell and Laurence Durrell.
Among his other topics were food facts, the church, cats and Noel Coward’s poem about Venice.
He finished with a response to Edward Thomas’s ‘Adlestrop’ – a poem by Dannie Abse called ‘Not Adlestrop’.