Our quiz nights have been through a slight sticky patch, with venues closing or changing function. Also our Spring Quiz became a Summer Quiz this year, partly through the Art Exhibition and partly through having to find a new venue. Whilst a successful evening, numbers were a bit lower than usual – also due to the clash with England opening their World Cup bid (ha!!).
For this Autumn Quiz we also had a new venue – the Queen Mary Inn, West Street in Poole. Whilst aware it was a bit smaller than other places we’d used, many of us were slightly taken aback with how small it was! As it happened we had 54 participants! Cosy is a bit of an understatement!!!
But it was a very enjoyable evening. With May again putting togather a raffle, the total profit came to £288. Thanks to the Queen Mary for hosting (for free) and to question setter (and bell ringer) David and quizmaster Sally.
If anyone wants a go at the picture quiz (celebrities when young), you can download it here picture quiz 2014. And if you want the answers go here picture quiz answers
Every year Amnesty International has encouraged and helped groups send greetings cards to prisoners of conscience around the world in December. Traditionally there were just half a dozen names selected. In recent years Amnesty has branded this as “Write for Rights” and produced much more informative information leaflets, covering many more prisoners of conscience.
We’ve had a succession of quiz venues closing down or being refurbished in some way after our events – hopefully this is pure coincidence! But we now have a new venue willing to test this out. We have booked the Queen Mary Inn, West Street, Poole for our next quiz on Friday 28th November 2014. This will follow the usual format with teams of up to 6 (can be formed on the night) and £5 a head. Sally Hawksworth has agreed to keep everyone in order and politely ask you things you don’t know. David Rogers has promised to make questions slightly less obscure than last year! The venue is slightly smaller than we’re used to, so please let us know (reply to this newsletter) if you are likely to attend and with how many guests.
On 16 October the Lahore High Court rejected the appeal against the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted on blasphemy charges. Asia Bibi, who is 45 years old and has five children, was initially found guilty of blasphemy on 8 November 2010 and sentenced to death under Section 295C of Pakistan’s Penal Code for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad during an argument with a Muslim woman.
In the past we held many stalls at Trade Union Conferences when they visited Bournemouth, plus we had our own Garden Party. Times have changed, but as reported above, Ted and May still turn out at a variety of Fairs and Carnivals – such as in Winton, Boscombe and now Muscliff Funday!
At our last meeting we wrote a variety of letters to the governments of Japan, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan. The letters to Saudi Arabia were posted on our blog. Unfortunately we have to report that Hajras bin Saleh bin Muhammad al-Qurey has now been executed in Saudi Arabia. Thanks to everyone who wrote to try and prevent this happening. The work continues…
