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Newsletter April-1 Newsletter 1.4.24 Dear All, Last Meeting Thursday 14th March Ralph Hoyle – “English Rococo Silver” After some initial trouble with the A/V, this went off very well. Ralph had arrived at our home for tea beforehand, and he was in great form. I was able to trundle Gill down to the Hall in her wheelchair: her first visit to “an event” since she finally got home from the Nursing Home. AND her Blue Badge has just arrived a couple of days ago. Our next Meeting Thursday 11th April Keith Bonser- “Caravaggio, Painter Extraordinaire; and possibly even a murderer”. This promises to be a very good evening event. Gill and I fell in love with Caravaggio during an extended Guided Tour Visit to Naples: the paintings were wonderful, and the painter’s life-history genuinely extraordinary, so please do come and bring your friends link. The Venue continues to be: Woodhouse Eaves Village Hall, 50a Main Street, Woodhouse Eaves, LE12 8RZ. This is the main Hall facing the Main Street. Our access to the Hall is from 7.15 for the lecture at 7.30pm approx. Please note we are in the main Hall facing the road, and not the two halls at the back! Our First Outing of the year was to the Anstey Wallpaper Factory (which, strangely, is sited near the Bell Foundry in Loughborough) on Tuesday 26th & Wednesday 27th March with two groups of us each day beautifully and flexible organised by Vicky Dennison, to whom many thanks. The Factory is enormous (lots of stairs and much noise) and they deal with the ultra-top-end of the wallpaper market. For those of us who have done quite a lot of wallpapering at the lower end of this market, it is the difference between Wetherspoons and Le Gavroche. Their most expensive roll of paper costs about £1,000! The patterns are amazing: beautiful, complex, interesting and also tactile. You will be pleased to hear that we have further outings in prospect to look forward to. Our Membership is now at 70, but we need it to reach 80 in order to be secure for the future. So, please do sign up by 1st July, and all will be well both for you and us! AND we still need a new Treasurer for our year that starts in September. So please turn out in force on Thursday 11th April at 7,15pm approx. for 7.30pm start. With best wishes, Michael Kelly Chairman TASC michaeljohnkelly7@gmail.com 01509 890173 P.S. You are very welcome to reply to me about this letter but please use the above email address and no other.