We started with a range of shared personal experiences of heroes and helpers, including pigeon rescues, a witness account of watching a child saved from drowning, childhood crushes, to chance meetings with people who helped and encouraged us. Then we moved on into other longer stories of a forest saved by a determined parrot, a mothers love for her war hero son, the wonder tales - Mother Hollie, and The Frog Princess - a Russian fairy tale, a camel who longed to dance and a yarn about Irish Hero - Finn McCool. Thank you tellers!
My special thanks this month go to first time tellers Kevin, who told us the folk tale told of how a plum tree came to grow in the garden of the poet John Clare, and Edward who told us of the very first game of hide and seek ever played by the virtues and vices.
It never ceases to amaze me how an eclectic group of people, male, female, older or younger can find such warm fellowship for the night over a drink and an evening of storytelling - magic!
If you want to check it out for yourself, then join us at the Hyde Tavern next month May 9th in the best pub cellar in the South...
