The West Norfolk Hotel on Station Road, Heacham (head for the North Beach and you can’t miss it) will again play host to one of our supper get-togethers on Friday 25 November, 7.15 for 7.30 p.m. As usual, you can order whatever you please, on the night, whether it’s just soup and a roll or a three-course meal with wine and brandy. You only pay for what you have.

Jane and Martin always make us most welcome and these suppers usually provide a great opportunity to get together and share ideas.

Please call 01485 570452 (Mary and Chris Mackie) to confirm your intention to be there.

With Christmas inevitably gleaming through the darkness not far ahead, we’ve scheduled a festive Quiz Night for Friday 9 December, starting at 7.30 p.m. It will be at our now-regular venue, the Albert Victor Private Members Bowls Club in Dersingham, which lies off the main B1440 through Dersingham. If you’re coming from the roundabout on the A149 take the second turning on the right, into Manor Road. From the other direction, take first left after Budgen's store. On your left you will see a telephone kiosk with, immediately opposite, a track leading to the Bowls Club. There is ample parking.

Once again the questions will be set and posed by our indefatigable Quiz Mistress, Sharon Yates, with help from husband Mick. Refreshments will be provided and drinks available from the Bowls Club’s bar.

And don’t forget we have a regular invite to join the Bowls Club members for their Bingo Evenings, on the first Wednesday every month.

All our evenings at the Bowls Club are much enjoyed by everyone and the welcome is warm. Do come. If you haven’t got a team, you can join one. And if you haven’t got a memory for facts, bring your smile. See you there.

Just a reminder that we’re hoping to find a new short play to compete for the ‘Best Original Script’ prize at next year’s Adjudicated Drama Festival. The play can be on any subject, modern or historical, comedy or tragedy, but when produced it must run for no less than twenty minutes and no more than forty-five. Total time allowed under the rules of the Festival is 50 mins, which includes the setting and clearing of the stage; so keep props and settings to a minimum. Closing date for our competition is 1st December 2011. If you want your script returned, please enclose a large envelope, addressed to yourself and stamped appropriately.

For a full copy of the rules and conditions, and an entry form, call Noel Mellish (phone number at the foot of this Newsletter), or email the main club address, also below.

Judges will be Jane Bean, Ann McKimm and Mary Mackie (all suitably experienced). If they find a script that is suitable, the play will be produced by the PTC next year. The decision of the PTC committee will be announced at the end of February 2012.

So far we have been inundated with one entry!! More, please.

Our popular sessions of poetry-reading began again in September, in a new home at the Town Hall, Hunstanton, our second meeting being on 9th November.

From 2012 we plan to hold these poetry readings six times a year, dates being January 18th, March 21st, May 16th and July 18th -- that is, the third Wednesday of every other month. Make a note in your diary!

 Entry to meetings is free, though voluntary donations for club funds are much appreciated.  Light refreshments -- tea, coffee, soft drinks, home-made cakes and biscuits -- are available, supplied and served by club members.

Everyone is welcome to join us and read a poem, whether of their own authorship, an old favourite or a new discovery. Anything from Shakespeare to Joyce Grenville, Wordsworth to Ted Hughes, or maybe a hymn or a song lyric. Come and share it with other people who love listening to words that rhyme and scan - or not, in some cases!