Handover Meeting with partners, 6.45 for 7pm

This was President Kathy’s last meeting as President and she determined to make it a Handover Meeting unlike any before.  Gone was the request for evening dress and in, after the formalities, was a little musical entertainment.  Given a piano in the corner and knowing Kathy’s singing talents, members wondered what it might be?   Perhaps something a la Flanders and Swann or maybe Hinge and Bracket??.  Neither, it was to be the musical whit and comedic genius of Stilgoe and Skellern as Kathy and Bob (Hobson and Humphries) gave us the sorry tale of Joyce the Librarian who was sadly let down in love by George the Rotarian. What a cad!!

President Kathy Hobson’s choice for a Handover Meeting with a difference was well received and very much enjoyed.  Congratulations Kathy and thank you for two years of service as our Club's President.

The formalities: Inducted as President were Terry Williams and as Senior Vice-President (President Elect) Ann Debureaux-Dias.  The position of Junior Vice-President (President Nominee) is currently vacant.
  
“Joyce the Librarian”: (Richard Stilgoe and Peter Skellern)

Joyce the librarian
Strict vegetarian
Forty and living with mum.
Wears sandals and glasses
Attends evening classes
And wonders if romance will come.
Though she'd never been kissed
It's not something she'd missed
Until some weeks before;
When George, a Rotarian,
Handsome lotharian,
Walked through the library door.

George was unmarried
And the torch that Joyce carried
Was burning a hole in her heart
She wanted to show him
But didn't yet know him
She didn't know where to start
So with growing abhorrence
She read D.H. Lawrence
To glean a few ideas . . .
Which she turned down flat
She couldn't do that
Not in a million years!!

Joyce the librarian
Strict vegetarian
Was burning with animal lust
Alarming sensations
Strange palpitations
A mix of delight and disgust
So she busied herself
Rearranging the shelf
To try to control her dreams.
Joyce the librarian
The disciplinarian
Was falling apart at the seams.

The very next day
She kept out of the way
When George returned his books
But with growing conviction
She wandered through "Fiction"
And threw him some longing looks.
And when George joined the queue
She knew just what to do,
She smiled and removed her specs . .
Then looked in horror
'Cause he'd come to borrow
"The Further Joy of Sex".

Perhaps because latterly
She'd read "Lady Chatterley"
Something just snapped in her head;
She gave herself gladly,
Wildly, madly,
To George that night in his bed.
But then just as she'd feared
George disappeared
Some other librarian to woo.
Now there's a sob in her voice
As both book and Joyce
Are a fortnight overdue.