Bulletin September 2008
Part 2
 Perfect Day Picnic in Southend The Saps at Sea Tent meeting on 10th August marked the 79th Anniversary since the release of Perfect Day in 1929. To celebrate, there was a picnic with a difference! Four brave contestants, Carol Rowland, Barry Berg, John Robertson (above) all the way from Scotland and Jason Liddiard on a visit from Paris, volunteered to be blindfolded and guess the ingredients of five special sandwiches. As the combinations were a little out of the ordinary, this was not as easy as you may think and, judging by some of the expressions, not always agreeable to the palate. For instance, there was cheese, chocolate and mustard in one sandwich and in another ham, banana and Marmite! Maybe because he is now used to eating snails in Paris, Jason guessed the most ingredients and won the contest. With our normal mix of favourite films and rare clips and some real food for everyone, our meeting topped the 50 mark and included 18 new faces. My thanks go to the regular Saps, the Stowaways and guests who made this a tasty evening. Roger Robinson Cape warning They have had to make a few alterations to the play Laurel and Hardy by Tom McGrath, staged in Newcastle. The Boys have been acting out their scenes to see how far the gunk goes when they are performing the barbers' scene, marking and measuring where every bit of gunk lands. They have even had to mention this to the next theatre in Scarborough and the theatre is going to issue all the front row audience with a plastic cape so they don't ruin their clothes! I think that is a bit daft. It's like going to Alton Towers on the wet rides and wearing a cape! They have another tour planned for next year, which is exciting. I should think we will be making our tent known to them again. Jo Mitchell-Waite writing in Whoopee magazine Bonnie Scots Some faces we haven't seen for a few months, and some faces we haven't seen for longer. But there were no long faces by the end of the evening at our July meeting. We had the usual raffle, but who knew what all the prizes were? Willie Black had brought along a few, but they were all wrapped up to add to the excitement of only five months until Christmas. For no particular reason, other than that we could, there was a slight nautical theme to our meeting. Any Old Port launched the evening as Stan launched a few punches at the landlord. The Live Ghost followed, as the Boys tried to press a few sailors onto the "ghost ship". With only five months until Christmas, the main feature was Way Out West. What can you say about that film? It's one of everyone's favourites. Tom and Jerry wound up the evening with a brace of cartoons. Janice Hawton |
A catch In the Dave Clark Five film Catch Us If You Can they end up at a costume party. One of the band goes as Stan and he bumps into an Ollie at the party! Stephen Barlow |
