The whole place is very inviting
...Cath Kitson and Laura Ashley...
but with a good old northern twist!
Very relaxing.
Baker par excellence is Claire herself. She has just been opened a few short weeks and already the word has gone around about the deliciousness of her cakes and the super decoration for the specials.
Well I should know, what with "neviepiecake" goodies as it were "in the family".
So it's such a pleasure to meet there for our very first poetry get together.
At the moment we are just four....
....maybe the "Just Four?".... no that 's a joke and not a very good one!
We had treats to help the whole day go well...
tea in china pots, poured into china cups,
victoria sponge and lemon drizzle cake....
.......so bang go the good intensions of cutting out cake for a while!
We heard Robert Graves poem..."A Slice of Wedding Cake" read out ...
...very apt as Claire had such a cake half- finished on the servery!
Arthur read some of Grey's Elegy and moved us to tears with his reading and choice.
He is over 90 and brought all of his experience of living into the reading.
I read one of Carol Ann Duffy's poems...
Virgil's Bees
and this morning I was unexpectantly loaned a book by Kenneth Steven...
...Island Collected Poems...
...soI also read his view of "Bees".
His work is full of Celtic spirituality and west coast Scottish Island tenderness.
With a good tale under our belts about a dead bird
and a grandchild wondering how many came to the funeral?!....
we thought that it could be the theme for our first attempt at writing a poem together.
Lots of laughter...good for the soul....
I finished off with my own poem..."Living in the Now"...
...and a promise to meet once a month to share some more beloved poetry.
