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All writers need friends!

All writers do indeed need friends and belonging to more than one local group, as some of us do, can only be a good thing. There were so many of us at Write-On! Ripon’s Christmas do at the Claro Lounge that we had to have a photograph taken from both ends of the table.

Loungers have access to a very well stocked bar and so it was quite appropriate that the suggested theme for the final meeting of the year was ‘The Morning After the Night Before’!

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