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Sessay Tuesday Club

It had been a while since I gave a talk, so I was very pleased to be invited to Sessay Tuesday Club. Accompanied by my ‘tech team’ of husband and younger son, I arrived at the village hall in plenty of time to set up and was given a big welcome. Actually, I could have managed on my own as the hall is very well equipped with technology, but that’s not always a given, so we had taken our own laptop, projector and extension cable ‘just in case’. It was a happy coincidence to find a former member of Ripon Writers’ Group in charge, so we were able to catch up a little too.

The talk the Club had chosen was about my time as a television/film ‘extra’ and I enjoyed sharing some memories of those years with the members.  There is plenty about it that I miss, although certainly not the early morning starts and driving back and forth to filming venues in all weathers.

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