Well we were lucky at the Village Fete last Saturday as the rain stopped mid morning and the whole affair turned out to be a great afternoon. We binned our famous ‘Play Your Cards Right’ format this year for our stall and in its place produced a quiz, which seemed quite popular though I couldn’t answer two of the drama questions so how the other entrants got on I don’t know. Anyway the winner received two tickets to our next production and the runner-up two cinema tickets.

Our new Chair Ms Kate Belcher continues to be doing a great job along with the other Sugar Babes breathing new life into the group and I believe I have said before the next twelve months should be really good.

Some of the cast from ‘Ladies’ Day’, remember our last production? Four fish filleters go to Royal Ascot? Remember now? Of course you do. Well as I was saying some of the cast went to the Ascot last week and very smart they looked in their finery with the fabulous hats and fine apparel, and that was just the fellers! I’m told a great day was had by all. I didn’t go ‘cos I’m not a betting man myself; my father drummed it into me as a child saying the only way to back a horse was into a pair of shafts, so I reckon the quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

What else has been happening? Not a lot recently. Nice story from Los Angeles where the police had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a line-up. When detectives asked each man in the line-up to repeat the words: 'Give me all your money or I'll shoot', the man shouted, 'that's not what I said!’

As we continue to search for our November play, my thoughts turn back to the productions we have put on over the years. It’s the 60th anniversary of KBDG next year and it’s important I think we put something apt. Perhaps ‘Brief Encounter’ which was the first full length play staged by us, although I believe the play was call ‘Still Life’ back then.

I keep meaning to write a history of the group and did in fact start about seven years ago. There are some priceless stories I can tell you. Ah! Maybe I’ll try again, I’m sure it would be a best seller though the names would have to be changed of course to protect the guilty.

Finally I do like to finish on a funny story but I’ve changed my computer and lost my fund of such jollities. I did have one sent to me by my old mate George (the old actor/manager you know) who suggested I clean it up for my blog.
Trust me there was no way to salvage it and spruce it up to be deemed suitable for a family blog. Perhaps by next week I’ll have retrieved my cache.
(Didn’t Bob Monkhouse have similar trouble?)