#pour one out for Arthur Stuart

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Arthurian Musings

(in honor of Velvet Goldmine's 25th anniversary)

Image sources (mostly screenshots taken from the film I believe): fanpop.com; artscenesa.com; screenmusings.org; fanpop.com.

The first few times I watched Velvet Goldmine, I was probably most drawn to Curt as a character, and through him and his mangled perspective, Brian and Mandy. Arthur was just a footnote, a sweet little fanboy cherry on top (or bottom, as the case seems to have been 😉).

But with repeated viewings, and as my understanding of fandom and identity has expanded, I've come to realize that of all the characters, Arthur is probably closest to my soul's reflection. He's a stand-in for the viewer, perhaps, but he's also a love letter to anyone who's ever found themselves forced into hiding from their family of origin and seeking out validation through art and his peers. That he got to meet at least one of the artists he'd adored from afar feels so fulfilling to me, after seeing the rejection he'd gone through at home.

I love watching how his appearance changes from past to present throughout the film, from the colorful stylistic mishmash of his young and out self to the spare muted palette of Arthur Stuart, journalist. As a younger person, I found his open-mouthed stares, stretched-out grins, and crumpled face in tears a bit cringe, but now I just see it as part of who he is, earnest and breathless and hopelessly in love with his idol.

He might be more jaded as an adult, more buffeted about by the winds of personal and social change, but his dogged persistence in finding out the truth of what happened is a driving force of the plot, and without his perspective and memories to guide us, we wouldn't have the same film.

"Give him a mask, and he'll tell you the truth," the saying goes. Most of the characters show this to varying degrees, but none so relatably as Arthur, in my opinion. Our masks can help us carry out the work we need to do in exposing the truth, and Arthur used it to his advantage. I like to imagine that he's able to put the mask aside eventually, once the day's work is done. Perhaps with a cold drink and a certain someone at his side. 🥰

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Sunday 4 August 1833

7 ½

11 55

fine morning F68° at 7 ½ a.m. breakfast at 9 in ¾ hour - till eleven above an hour writing note to Mr Aston to go with passport and writing note to Madame de Bourke and looking in court calendar for Mr Aston’s name etc from 11 ¼ to 2 busy over 1 thing or other wrote 1 full ½ sheet and 2 ½ pages of another to Lady Stuart at one sent Thomas with my note and passport under cover to ‘Arthur Aston Esquire secretary of legation British Embassy’ Miss Lister presents her compliments to Mr Aston and will be much obliged to him if he will be so good as arrange her passport for Madame Lister to travel in Germany and the north of Europe, and if he will also be so good as insert the name of her friend Mademoiselle Sophie Ferrall - 4 August 4 Rue neuve Luxemburg - put the whole with more undercover to ‘La Comtesse de Bourke Rue du faubourg St Honoré no. 53 Miss Lister espère bien que la comtesse de Bourke n’est pas si souffrante anjourd’ hui qu’ hier, et la prie d’agréer houille remerciements de toute sa bonté pour le passeport’  - took Thomas and off to the oratoire (service at 3) at 2 ½ waited 20 minutes - Mr Lefevre did all the duty - preached about 25 minutes - the church was hot - I could not hear well - the preacher well and I was asleep - home at 4 ½ - ¼ hour with Mrs and Miss Barlow - dinner at 5 - out at 6 - walked to my little apartment - sat reading ¾ hour Richard’s traveller’s guide in Germany - Thomas came and took him and at 7 ¾ and walked round the boulevards - home at 9 ½ - undressed – fine day F66° at 11 20 p.m.

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Books that have won an Award

The great thing about books that have won an award is that someone or group of people have already read the book and determined it’s a great read. The other great thing is there are many different book awards that focus on a variety genres, styles of writing, and background of authors. It means there is a book for about every interest you can imagine that has won an award. Many of these award winning books make more than one list of finalists and may even be recognized as a finalist by different organizations. Here are a few recent winners you might want to explore. If one here doesn’t peak your interest then check out the American Library Association’s Recommended Reading: Award Winners page. Here you may even find an award winning children’s book that would fulfill the goal of reading an award winner.  Though you most likely won’t find the children’s book in Oberlin’s library you can search and borrow from public libraries through Search Ohio. They have lots of children’s and young adult literature you can borrow.

Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcom X  Les Payne (National Book Award)  --Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X--all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction.The result is this historic biography that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford followers stir with purpose, as if the dead were truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of racism.

Sight Lines by Arthur Sze (National Book Award)  --"From the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White House floor, from the last sighting of the axolotl to a man who stops building plutonium triggers, Sight Lines moves through space and time and brings the disparate and divergent into stunning and meaningful focus. In this new work, Arthur Sze employs a wide range of voices--from lichen on a ceiling to a man behind on his rent--and his mythic imagination continually evokes how humans are endangering the planet; yet, balancing rigor with passion, he seizes the significant and luminous and transforms these moments into riveting and enduring poetry

The Poet X : a Novel  by Elizabeth Acevedo. (Golden Kite Award & Carnegie Medal)  -- Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, she can't stop thinking about performing her poems (Jacket)

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. (Stonewall Book Award)  --A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.

Oh so many good awarding winning books to choose from here are a few more...

Shuggie Bain : a Novel by Douglas Stuart. (Booker Award) 

Fairview : a Play by Jackie Sibblies Drury. (Pulitzer Prize)

Lost Children Archive : a Novel by Valeria Luiselli. (Rathbones Folio Prize)

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. (Booker Award)

The Nickel Boys : a Novel by Colson Whitehead (Pulitzer Prize)

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Note: Photo is actually a pic of Paul Bogle, it is some kind of mix-up, but Jamaica has contacted officials in the USA about the mix-up.  Bogle is considered a national hero in Jamaica.

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Thomas Jennings

Thomas Jennings stands in history as a noteworthy figure for being the first Black person to ever receive a patent, but his life should serve as an example of what was, and what could have been, for Black people in the earliest years of the United States.

Thomas Jennings was born in 1791 and worked in a number of jobs before focusing on what would become his chosen career… as a tailor. Jennings’ skills were so admired that people near and far came to him to alter or custom-tailor items of clothing for them. Eventually, Jennings reputation grew such that he was able to open his own store on Church street which grew into one of the largest clothing stores in New York City.

Jennings, of course, found that many of his customers were dismayed when their clothing became soiled, and because of the material used, were unable to use conventional means to clean them. Conventional methods would often ruin the fabric, leaving the person to either continue wearing the items in their soiled condition or to simply discard them. While this would have provided a boon to his business through increased sales, Jennings also hated to see the items, which he worked so hard to create, thrown away. He thus set out experimenting with different solutions and cleaning agents, testing them on various fabrics until he found the right combination to effectively treat and clean them. He called his method “dry-scouring” and it is the process that we now refer to as dry-cleaning.

In 1820, Jennings applied for a patent for his dry-scouring process. In light of the times, he was fortunate that he was a free man, born in the United States, and thus an American citizen. Under the United States patent laws of 1793 (and later, as revised in 1836) a person must sign an oath or declaration stating that they were a citizen of the United States. While there were, apparently, provisions through which a slave could enjoy patent protection, the ability of a slave to seek out, receive and defend a patent was unlikely. Later, in 1958, the patent office changed the laws, stating that since slaves were not citizens, they could not hold a patent. Furthermore, the court (in the famous case Oscar Stuart vs. Ned case) said that the slave owner, not being the true inventor could not apply for a patent either. In true irony, when many of the southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America, CSA President Jefferson Davis signed into law legislation permitting slaves to hold patents. For Thomas Jennings, none of this mattered because as a free man, not only was he able to receive a patent in 1821, but he was also able to utilize it for his financial gain. In fact, he made a fortune.

What makes Jennings noteworthy is not just that he was an entrepreneur or that he received a patent, or even the fact that he became very wealthy. What is noteworthy is that he took a vast amount of the proceeds of his business and poured it into abolitionist activities throughout the Northeast. In fact, in 1831, he became the assistant secretary for the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He passed this sense of self-worth to his daughter Elizabeth, who was forced off of a public bus in New York City which she riding to go to church. Because of her father’s prominence and wealth, she was able to obtain the best legal representation and hired the law firm of Culver, Parker, and Arthur to sue the bus company and was represented in court by a young attorney named Chester Arthur, who would go on to become the 21st President of the United States. Ms. Jennings would ultimately win her case in front of the Brooklyn Circuit Court in 1855.

Thomas Jennings died in 1859 and will go down in history as the first Black person to obtain a patent, but he should rather be seen as an example of a citizen who made the best of his life and sought to use his good fortune to make life better for those around him.

Sources:

http://blackinventor.com/thomas-jennings

Book: The Inventive Spirit of African Americans (Patricia Carter Sluby).

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How to do the Scenic Rim Food Trail in one day

A verdant region of volcanic calderas and virgin rainforest, cattle country and cool little country towns, the Scenic Rim is home to a bounty of growers and graziers, brewers and boutique producers. Combined, it makes for the stuff of gourmet food tour dreams. 

In fact, if you were dropped, Survivor-style into the middle of the Scenic Rim… well it wouldn’t be much of a show. You’d probably end up putting on weight and refusing to leave.

Pack an appetite, a cold bag and bring some cash for the random roadside food stalls for the foodies’ version of the perfect Sunday drive. Or better yet, stay over for a more languorous weekend of hunting and gathering with this guide to the Scencic Rim Food Trail.

Summer Land Camels, Harrisville

Prepare to be seriously checked out when you arrive at the world’s second-largest camel dairy, Summer Land Camels on your food tour of the Scenic Rim. Curious dromedaries with supermodel lashes will lift their heads from grazing the paddock for a long hard look.

We recommend taking the farm tour, then ducking into the café inside a typical Queensland farm cottage. Order a camel cappuccino, camel milk ice-cream or their range of cheese; from a soft fromage blanc perfect for topping tacos, to a hard cheddar.

Oppy’s Fruit and Veg, Boonah

In a historic old brick butter factory in the little farming town of Boonah, Oppy’s offers the antithesis of supermarket shopping. Owners and farmers Stuart and Sandra Opperman sell their own pumpkins and watermelons as well as lots of other locally grown, chemical-free fruit and veg.

There’s usually something delicious out for tasting – a ripe melon or Kooroomba Gully chutney, one of Di Jackson’s jams, or goat’s cheese from Naughty Little Kids, as well as shelves and fridges packed with local Scenic Rim milk, honey, olives and more.  

Arthur Clive’s Bakehouse, Boonah & Aratula

Next on our food tour of the Scenic Rim is a good ol’ country bakery. Arthur Clive’s is owned by the Pennell family who’ve been baking in the Scenic Rim since 1936.

Arthur Clive’s, named for the patriarch of the family, may look like the quintessential ‘lamingtons and custard slice’ bakery, but it has tapped into the food zeitgeist with its range of wild fermented sourdoughs and dark Swiss fruit loaves. Even the brekkie burger’s been given a makeover, served on brioche.

Old school pie appreciators highly rate the pies, with their explosively flaky, buttery pastry. The secret to their tasty pies? They are made from locally farmed meat slow-cooked in a housemade Worcestershire sauce (the recipe handed down from Grandfather Arthur Clive). Shhh!

The Dugandan Hotel, Dugandan

You can’t beat a classic country pub and “the Dugie” outside Boonah ticks all the boxes. Built in 1880, it boasts wide shady verandas, a fireplace for cool Scenic Rim winters and a beer garden known as ‘the chook yard’ with bucolic views (but no chickens!).

The typical pub grub menu is dominated by generously-sized Queensland-bred steaks that come with provenance and tasting notes, while the bar has 13 different beers on pour, plus regular craft guest beers. Cheers!

The Overflow Estate 1895

Part of 1600-hectare working farm, the Morgan and Usher family planted vines in this dreamy location on a small isthmus of land jutting into the Wyaralong Dam in 2010. There’s a smart architect-designed cellar door with tables on a covered deck looking through the trees to the dam.

Take a seat at the café serving cheese and charcuterie platters and simple tasty lunches. Finish off your lunch with a tasting of their wines, made from hand-picked grapes – of course!

The Shed Café, Rathdowney

Continuing on our food tour, drive through the picturesque olive grove in Rathdowney to this little café on the hill where the outside tables are dressed with red and white checked cloths. We recommend ordering owner Lou Cheevers’ fantastically light warm scones with cream and jam and a pot of tea.

The large shed is packed with jars of traditionally-brined olives as well as fruity extra-virgin olive oil and tapenades. Also take time to check out the lovely collection of kitchenware, cookbooks and table linen handpicked by the multi-talented Lou.

Classi di Cucina, Cooking Classes, Rathdowney

Back in the dark days before all pizza restaurants had woodfired ovens Pietro Agnoletto set the bar high at the University of Queensland’s’s Pizza Café with his authentic wood-fired pizza. He retired some years ago to 40 rolling hectares at Rathdowney with wife Desley and a herd of wily alpaca.

On the first Sunday of every month, Pietro fires up the wood oven and does a class in both Neapolitan and Roman-style pizza making, followed by a convivial lunch with beer or wine.

Green Lane Coffee Plantation, Tamborine Mountain

Crop to cup coffee is on pour at this family owned micro-lot coffee shop/plantation at Tamborine Mountain where the beans are handpicked and roasted on site. There are around 650 trees on site, all Arabica and grown chemical-free.

To learn more about the growing and roasting process, book a tour of the plantation on a Sunday. Then back it up with breakfast or lunch in the greenery-shrouded café, including of course precision-made coffee.

Don’t forget to grab a bag or two of their signature Tamborine Blend to take home.

Looking for more food tour ideas in the Scenic Rim?

What gourmet adventures have you had in the Scenic Rim? Share your top picks with us below.

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VISTABELLA BOWLS REPORT WITH LYNNE BISHOP.

VCL. The very last match of the season saw the Vikings at home against the San Miguel Sheriffs. Playing Men’s Singles was Martin Foulcer winning 21-12. Triples, Olwyn Ratcliffe, Frank Barclay & Brian Dunn 24-21 and the rinks team of Pauline Rafferty, Andy Leggatt, Pat Rafferty & Eric Bishop 17-11. Shots, VB 110 (8) – 98 (6) SM. well done to all the squad, they finished third in the league, at times it looked like they could have done better.

The Saxons were up at La Marina fighting to save their bacon, Just five points were needed to survive relegation and that’s exactly what they got, no more, no less…phew!

Well done to men’s Singles Ian Kenyon for a win of 21-9…consistent right to the end Ian! Rinks, Beryl Regan, Sheila Whitehall, Jeff Neve & Mike Regan 20-16 and pairs Del Gunning & Peter Whitehall 15-15. Shots, VB 88 (5) – 90 (9) LM.

Well done to both Captains, Sharron Kirk & Barry Norris also the selectors.

SAL Spitfire league. The Fairways at home to the San Miguel Christians took four wins thanks to the teams of Eve Blythe, Tony French & Bill Pain 26-9. Lynne Bishop, Barbara Brown & Ian Kenyon 20-11. Sandra Burrows, StJohn Broadhurst & Brian Dunn 19-13. Olwyn Ratcliffe, Arthur Brown & Ken Cuthbert 14-11. Shots, VB 104 (10) -79 (4) SM. keep going, two more games to go.

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SOUTH ALICANTE SPITFIRE DIVISION (A) 2017 WK 10

LA MARINA REPORT BY BARRY LATHAM

Didn’t start the week off too well as La Marina TS lost to Quesada DS five nil. Dave Hadaway and Dave Taylor lost to Derek Sale and Terry Morgan and also losing were Peter Parsons and Tom Spencer.  Still another two games to play.

The last VCL game promised to be a cracker …and it was.  La Marina needed ten points to stay up and Vistabella Saxons wanted five points.  It was close throughout with the Singles finishing first as usual.  This week it was Jan Parsons being the Star winning 21- 7 while Pete lost by a similar score.  The Pairs was a close fought game all the way through with Margaret Finlayson and Tom Spencer winning all the way until the 17th end when they dropped a four only to pick up a three on the last end to get a draw. 

The Triples was a little easier but a good game to play in as our opponents clawed their way back picking up six shots on the last six ends.  Thankfully, Barry and Wendy Latham and Carol Smith held on to win by three. The two Rinks each had great games.  Barry Sadler, Dave Taylor, Roger Stacey and Dave O’Sullivan also dropped a four on the 17th end but got the necessary two on the last to secure a win by one shot. 

Our other rink again went very close everything coming down to the last wood on the last end.  Unfortunately on this occasion it went to the Visitors.  Counting it all up La Marina 90 shots and Vistabella 88 making the overall score 9 points to 5 in favour of La Marina.  Can’t ask for any more than that.  Well done to all who played in a great game for the last game of the season in the VCL.

SOUTH ALICANTE HURRICANE DIVISION (B) WK 9 2017

SAN LUIS BOWLS CLUB REPORT 30.06.17.

Wednesday 28th June VCLeague, SL Falcons were away, on a very hot morning, v Quesada Lions. Taking a good result from a match hard fought right to the very last shot – with Jules delivering a perfectly drawn shot to ensure another win; points 8-6, shots 109-88. Winners: singles; Mal Hughes 21-6, rinks; Shirley Verity, Judy Carroll, Roy Cordell, Jules Pering 16-14, Kath Reid, Sheila Cammack, Sabrina & Russell Marks 24-9.

Friday 30th, South Alicante Spitfire Division: on another hot, thirst-making morning SL Wellingtons were home to Emerald Isle Victors, and had a frustrating result with 2 separate “last ends” that just didn’t go our way!! So close and yet so far; shots 104-107, points 6-8. Winners: Allen Bowen, June & Keith Jones 17-13, Judy Carroll, Jan & Brian Pocock 20-13. Colin Jackson, Bill Webb, Mal Hughes 18-16.  

San Luis Open Summer Rinks, is running on Tuesday evenings 6:00/6:30 from 20th June- 1st August.

We are also participating in the “egg cup challenge” –  4 matches of 6 trips home & away v our close neighbours La Siesta, The 1st match on Monday 26th ended 3-3, that’s 1 down and 3 to go!!

SOUTH ALICANTE HARRIER DIVISION (C) WK 9 2017

SAN LUIS WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS:

Whereas some clubs may be considering reducing their entries for the coming winter season, San Luis Bowls Club is going back to 4 for the South Alicante league on a Monday and 4 for the Southern league on a Friday.

Being a competitive club does not mean that there is not room for everyone in ALL divisions to get at least one game a week. We will have 1 in Div A, 1 in Div B and 2 in Div C and it is as much the latter where we welcome players – either those who have played in the leagues and want to continue, or those who are now ready to test the water and get involved and above all enjoy the game.

Your commitment to joining San Luis BC would be needed BY 1st August with membership commencing 1st September. However by joining in July there would be no charge for August when bowling at San Luis.

For further information please contact the Club Captain – June Jones 966 188 920 or 691 903 773.

You can also check out our club website: www.sanluisbowls.byethost7.com

Sheila Cammack

MONTE MAR BOWLS AND SOCIAL CLUB

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VCL League – Monte Mar Lords V La Siesta

A good result at La Siesta winning on four rinks and drawing on one. Well done to Alan Ashberry (mens singles)  Babs Caiger (Ladies singles) Denise Ashberry and Bill Young (mixed Pairs) Rowena Good, John Caiger, Harry Dobson and skip Val Hignett. And the drawing rink Sheila Roberts, Mike Farrelly and skip Dave Melville.

Shots Monte Mar 104 – 99 La Siesta. Points Monte Mar 11 – 3 La Siesta.

Hurricane Division – Monte Mar Torros V Greenlands Gladiators

The Torros were up against Greenlands Gladiators away. We managed to win on three rinks but lost on shots. Well done to the three winning rinks.

Shots Monte Mar Torros 95 – 104 Greenlands Gladiators. Points Monte Mar Torros 6 – 8 Greenlands Gladiators.

VCL League – Monte Mar Lords V San Miguel

Last match away to San Miguel only managed a win on one rink and a draw on one rink. Well done to the winning rink of Rowena Good, John Caiger, Harry Dobson and skip Val Hignett, and the drawing rink of Denise Ashberry and Bill Young. Shots Monte Mar Lords 98 – 115 San Miguel. Points Monte Mar 3 – 11 San Miguel.

For further information about Monte Mar Bowls and Social Club check out our website  www.montemarbowls.com or email us at [email protected]. We are also on Facebook.

EMERALD ISLE BOWLS CLUB

Wed saw the Dukes travel to Greenlands Jasmine and they got beaten by 10-4 aggregate of  92-100,  the winners were C Lindgren 21-6 and S Wickens C Highland D Close M Odell 23-11, but the Dukes where champions in that league so well done to them

Wed also saw the Earls play at home against Horadada and go down by 12-2, aggregate 86-117, the winning EI player was C Parsons 21-14

The Victors played at San Luis Wellingtons on Friday and came away with a great 8-6 win aggregate 107-104, winners were P Heaney M Parsons D Gerrard 24-13, S Wickens M Veale M Odell 24-21, C Thomas D Close AM Stevenson 17-15

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SAN MIGUEL BOWLS CLUB

Brilliant result for San Miguel Deputies for the last game of the VCL season, gaining 11 points to 3 against La Siesta.  Very well played by singles player, Anita Brown winning 21-9… played 7 games won 7 games, well done Anita. Mens singles Bob Nesbitt won 21-17;  Pairs, Pat & Dave McEwan drew 13 across;  Triples, Sheila Errington, Paul Hayward, Brian Errington won 24-19;  Rinks, William Holtham, Dave Champion, Jim Jarvie, Eddie Cowan won 24-16;  Rinks, Sue Milner, Keith Green, Tom Dalgleish, Alan Campbell lost 12-24.  Shots for San Miguel 115, against 98.

The Sheriffs were away at Vistabella for their last game picking up 6 points to 8.  Results – Ladies singles, Mary Dyer won 21-18;  Mens singles, Reg Cooper lost 12-21;  Pairs, Noel Davis, Lyn Greenland won 18-16;  Triples, Margaret & Allan Patterson, Clliff Plaisted lost 21-24;  Rinks, Bob Hanton, Peter Ross, Lee Sinclair, Steve Cantley lost 11-17, Rinks, Jan Allen, Stuart Hemmings, Brian Allen, Dave Greenland won 15-14.  Although only picking up 6 points, it was enough to keep us 2nd in the league – Well Done.

In the Southern league, The Moors were at home to Quesada Blenheims picking up 6 points to 8.  Well done to Sheila Errington, Cliff Plaisted, Brian Errington 21-13;  Bob Hanton, Don Whitney, Bob Donnelly 18-16;  Stan North, Barbara Scotthern, Eddie Cowan 25-12.  Shots for 101 – against 113.

The Christians were away to Vistabella Fairways only managing 4 points, Well played by Paul Hayward, Tom Dalgleish, Steve Cantley 18-13;  Anita Brown, Alan Campbell, Lee Sinclair 17-12.  Shots for 79 – against 104.

WASPS PLEASE NOTE – Wednesday afternoon WASPS will be suspended throughout the summer  from 12th July until 13th September, due to the intense heat and dwindling numbers.  Until then come along and have a game.  €5 for an afternoons bowling, includes use of woods, shoes and free tuition if required.  Bowlers of all abilities welcome.

Club mornings as normal, Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Check the board for two coach trips – One to the Jalon Valley, the other to Guadalest  (we did this trip last year, but it poured down the whole day, and visibility at Guadalest was NIL)  Lets try again!!!!

Also on the board is a FUN DAY followed by a Hog Roast – Get your names down!!!

For further information on San Miguel Bowls Club, please contact the Secretary, Pat McEwan, telephone [phone]

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Saturday 8 August 1835

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No kiss. Very fine morning - very kind note from Lady Stuart de R- more thanks for the table - hopes I shall not leave London till after Wednesday that she may see me again - breakfast at 9 ½ -  considering with A- and till 12 ¼ wrote copy of note to Mr Johnson about the schools - A- went to Mr Dumergue again at 11 for about ½ hour - left her to go at 1 to dine with Mrs Plowes (glass coach and laquais de place) and drove to Whitehall - there at 1 - sat about ¾ hour with Lady Stuart and Lady V- The former in a stew about Thrupp in Oxford Street  her coach maker to whom it seems she owes seven hundred pounds carriage hire and accumulations   Thrupp wanted paying and Lord S- bound himself with his mother for her paying him by instalments of fifty six pounds odd per annum   the bill drawn by Mr Stuart (Charles  I suppose) came this morning or rather notice of its being due the man could not wait must have money  no draft would be take  Lady S- did not understand it we had Thrupp’s impertinence talked over  Lady S- has Lord Stuart’s chariot will have nothing more to do with Thrupp in which I joined till I saw into the thing (saw the paper left by Thrupp’s banker’s clerk or messenger) and advised

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Lady S- merely to send the notice of the bill being due to her own banker and desire him to honour that is pay it   Lady S- glad I had happened to be there to tell her what to do   Vere said nothing  had I offered the money it would have been taken but of course I knew better   Lady S- fears my lord is laying out a great deal at Highcliffe and wonders where it is to come from how they are all running to ruin  let it be a lesson to me. From Whitehall drove to the National school, and left my note to the ‘revered Mr Johnson, central National school, Westminster’ - then to Colnaghi’s - stopt at the door to say I would look at the books on perspective - should be in town till Monday - to see the British museum now closed to strangers (open to students) should write to the secretary ‘the revered Josiah Forshall Secretary to the British museum’ - then drove to 34 Hertford street - lady Gordon not at home - sent up my card - admitted to Georgiana - Lady G- very ill in bed with so bad a headache could not see her - Alice in Herefordshire - lady S- and Georgiana going to Scotland (per steam to Edinburgh) passage take for Wednesday - staid about 5 minutes and then to Lady Mexboroughs’ - very kind and glad to see me - shewed me the company rooms above and below - went down to luncheon and had excellent prime-cut exprès pour moi - asked me very kindly to visit her at Methlay - hoped I would go - Lady Sarah and Arthur Savile with us at luncheon - gave lady M- Thorpe’s address 28 or 38 Bedford street Covent garden, and said if Lady Hardwicke really wished to sell any of her books perhaps he would give as much for them as anybody would - then drove to 16 Orchard street - Miss Hall not in London - in the North - wrote in pencil at the corner of my card ‘Saturday 8 August 1835’ - then to the Pantheon, new bazaar, in Oxford street just to take a peep at and inquire about the sketch we admired the other day - yes! really by the Turner T- R.A. price 4 guineas done when he was very young, and given to his friend Dr. Monroe - would not now give lesson under any possible circumstances - would not put pencil to paper under 20 guineas - Dr. M- had a collection of sketches by 1st rate artists - the collection was sold - then some difficulty in finding Taylor the publisher 6 Barnard’s Inn, Holborn - a long but tidy narrow passage at the end of which T-‘s house - sometime there - saw only his clerk - bought Banks on a millwheels etc etc and got 10 pc taken off little thought A- had been there before and bought duplicates (full price) of the perspective I got for her and a little 2/. pamphlet on repairing roads - home at 4 ½ - A- has locked up my journal - beside myself at the disappointment - asleep - dressed - at Lady Stuart’s to dinner at 7 10 - only herself and Lady VC- very kind and glad to see me - dinner at 7 ½ - Miss Hyrioth came in the evening - Charlotte S- spending the day in Grosvenor square at Lady Cunnings’ - Lady S- de R- and Louisa gone to Hatfield - Lady S- begged me to write to Lady Harriet - V- can always receive anything free thro’ Mr. Cameron’s cousin by marriage the ‘Honourable Fox Maule, Home office, London’ - V- goes on Wednesday - to spend 2 nights at Lady Northlands’ and .:. be 3 days on the road 57 miles to ‘Brafield House Olney Bucks’ - I may send what I like (in moderation i.e. any  moderate quantity sheets of paper) thro’ Mr. FM. so asked V- to write to me often and said I would scribble her something or other in return, busy as I was - she said I must have a hoard somewhere, or coal or something must yield a great deal or how could I build Inns and talk of a house in London etc - hoped I should not ruin myself - I hope not said I - but, if I do, my little friend Miss W- must help me out - come to me said V- I will keep you - I said A- had a very good fortune - but I should take care -had no thought of an house in London perhaps for these 10 years to come - V- said she knew not how it was, she always associated the idea of me with her travels - it seemed as if I had been with her everywhere I had given away her place - I laughed and said it was she who had taken 3 (Donald and 2 children) into mine - she said she had seen no antiquities in Rome as she ought to have done for want of me - She said she was jealous   it was joke but somehow she was  for her   very affectionate  I almost fancied she really liked me in some degree   as great as her small quantity  of warm feeling would permit. Seemed pleased at my promise to go and see her in Scotland and perhaps in Bucks - she said she should be delighted to come to Shibden sometime or other - Miss Hyrioth had walked - I set her down in passing and got home at 11 - A- had returned at 9 ½ and had had tea - Mr Thomas Edwards very ill - Mrs Plowes with him - A- had dined with the children and then gone to Mr TE-’s and sat about a couple of hours with Mrs P- no hope of Mr John E-‘s recovery - had made his will - say up talking about an hour - very fine day - F68° at 12 ¾ tonight - V- accidentally mentioned that her Perrelet-watch did not go very well - not at all well till Jefferson in Bruton street (the best in London) watchmaker or cleaner one or other had it to clean - she said it had never been visitée at all - V- owned she had bought it in a great hurry - P- had only a week to get it ready in and had a very small stock of watches by him at the time.