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FUTURE EVENTS

FEBRUARY

Friday, 5th February—Quiz

Saturday, 13th February—Valentine’s Dinner

Wednesday, 17th February—Krafty Club

Sunday 23rd February—Songs of Praise

Tuesday, 23rd February—Ladies Lunch

EVENTS MAY CHANGE – ALWAYS CHECK CLUB HOUSE NOTICE BOARD STOP PRESS ON THE WEBSITE OR FACEBOOK

With another Remembrance Day now behind us, we know that many member nations of what used to be called the British Empire spent many hours preparing for their memorial services of the day. The eleventh day of the eleventh month. Local councils will have repainted the flagpole and weeded the gardens around their cenotaphs and memorials in their city centres. The area will have been blocked off and police will have kept the roads clear for those marching with as much military discipline as they can muster and as much as Covid-inspired social distancing allowed. Ex-servicemen and women, padres and bishops, the able and the less able will all have pressed their uniforms and polished their medals and their black boots. Where necessary, wheelchairs will have been made ready, wheels oiled not to squeak as they were pushed along. Regimental colours and Legion flags and campaign banners will have been taken out of storage and hung out to be rid of the smell of mothballs -and leather harnesses will have been buffed to shine in the hoped-for winter sunshine. Youngsters from the local churches will have re-learned hymns not sung since last November and now forgotten. But they would be on parade, alongside the senior men and women in the choir. All in their white smocks and frilly collars, the juniors proudly wearing their one year-service medals. And similarly, the bugler. He will have played the Last Post and then Reveille and needed to practise. His spot in the service is in many ways, the most poignant -that moment when all is hushed, some of those attending looking mournful and swallowing deeply, some just thoughtful, some shedding tears as they think of Dad or Uncle Fred or Great-aunt Molly, whose whole street was flattened in 1943. Elsewhere, memorial services were a little more low-key. Villages and townships in smaller communities in smaller countries conducted their services of memorial in their own ways and with what they had. There would have been no bugler. No Last Post. No Reveille. No uniforms. There might have been very few ex-soldiers, maybe just a few old men with tarnished medals dangling from their ragged shirts. No boots to be polished, no flags to salute. But they were proud of what they did and where they went to serve His Majesty. Nobody can take that away. And every year, they will come to that same central square to remember, and they come with what they have. Themselves. And their memories -of their comrades who fell. And they too will shed tears. Flowers will be brought by the women and children. They don’t applaud but they clap in harmony with the musical accompaniment -of perhaps a rather wailful choir as another small nation mourns. They know that they too, in their turn and at their time, will be bourn aloft or sink, as the light wind lives or dies. Note. John Keates wrote something similar to the last three lines of the above and called it ‘Autumn’, soon after the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. He died in 1821. Autumn in all respects. Submitted by Geoff Morgan

These are the new rules that the Committee have put into place to keep you all safe, it is everybody's responsibility to adhere to them, anybody refusing to keep to the rules will unfortunately be asked to leave:

Capacity allowed is 75% using 25% of the tables indoors, 100% in toldos area but a distance of 1.5 metres to be kept between tables.

Anti bacterial gel to be used when you enter the Club which is provided at every entrance.

People must wear masks at all times apart from when sitting at a table.

Tables and chairs to be cleaned after every occupancy by the people vacating chair or table, cleaning materials provided at cleaning stations.

Only 1 person at a time in all of the toilets, locks have been fitted on the outer doors.

Toilets, door handles and light switches to be cleaned by anyone using the toilets. Cleaning materials provided or if you feel safer clean them before use as well.

No cushions to be used and when required, single use tablecloths only.

Lunches will now be served at your table.

Bar to be used for ordering & collecting of drinks only, no standing or sitting at the bar.

If you use the Computer, wipe everything down with wipes provided.

Books & puzzles may be taken but on return or touched must be put into the box provided to quarantine for 14 days.

Lift to be used by 1 person at a time unless of the same household.

If you have returned to Spain from another country please refrain from coming to the Club for 14 days.

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We’ve all heard of the thespian wish of ‘Break a leg’, but perhaps there are other oddities about the stage that need explanation.

What about not mentioning ‘Macbeth’ inside a theatre? Curiously, many unexplained catastrophes have occurred when that dreaded name has been spoken: theatres burning to the ground; personal injuries to actors; theatres going bankrupt; the lead actor committing suicide immediately after the play was performed; otherwise-reliable lighting failing when the technician defiantly mentioned the name; and the actor playing Macbeth dying on stage and Shakespeare himself taking over –this being unrecorded in any way makes this, of course, an unprovable origin of the curse! Sounds very convincing, but maybe it’s all coincidence? So what else?

What about whistling when on stage? Actors should not whistle on stage! Stage hands used to whistle (softly) as a signal to colleagues that a scene change was about to happen. A heavy backdrop once fell, it is said, on an actor who whistled while standing immediately below the backdrop, and was killed when it was released at the wrong moment. Not something one would choose to do. Just bad luck!

Ghost lights? An empty theatre always has a light on within the auditorium! It might keep the ghosts away, but in terms of simple safety, one little light in a huge darkened theatre is not much to ask. Perhaps just common sense?

And ghosts themselves abound in theatres. Theatres that change names, like the Lyric, are often (they say) visited by a presence annoyed by the change, sometimes taking a curtain call or appearing on stage on opening night, and vanishing in a flash before a shocked audience. In other theatres, disgruntled spirits are blamed for moving 31

stage props or even losing them during the run of a play. Olive Thomas, a one-time Follies girl, is the most frequently seen ghost, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, but seen only by men! No doubt the bar also does good trade!

Placing shoes on a table is a serious mistake. Perhaps this is related to the tannin in the leather being poisonous; placing your sandwiches on that same spot on the table could be a mistake.

And what about ‘break a leg’? One story goes that when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, in Washington DC, the gunman jumped from his stage-side box, onto the stage to escape. In doing so, he broke a leg, but hobbled away. He was himself an actor of some note at the time, and, having had the luck to make his escape, the greeting of ‘Break a leg’ is thought to have been used as a ‘black humour’ version of ‘good luck’ to those who tread the boards. This, as the origin of the saying, is disputed by the lack of record of anyone using the expression earlier than the 1920s, but, does anyone have a better explanation?

There is one possibility. The edge of a stage is known as the line, and is marked by the curtains, the lower part of which used to be called the legs of the curtains. To cross the line, or to ‘break’ the line, meant that you were ‘on stage’ -working as an actor. ‘Break a leg’ therefore conveyed a wish that you would be an actor. Many would-be actors turn up at the stage, hoping to be chosen to play a part; if they crossed that line –broke a leg –it was because they were being selected to play a part. They were actors –and would be paid as such.

In the dance world, they take a rather more commercial approach, and wish each other ‘Merde’, or in Spain, ‘Mucha mierda’. This is explained, back in the old days, by a well-attended theatre being identified by the number of horse-drawn carriages that brought the paying customers to the theatre door -but leaving their droppings in the street. The more droppings, the better the audience, the better the pay! Good wishes, indeed.

Superstition? Or common sense in a changing world? Submitted by Geoff Morgan

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COACH TRIPS See trip information for WELFARE Members are requested to notify times. Please ensure that our welfare officer, Wilma Keeley you sit in the seat numbered on your ticket. We if they know of any member who is ill. regret that we cannot stop at any other point un- Tel: 951 577 050 / 679 138 952 less agreed with the organiser, to pick up or put email: wilmakeeley2000@yahoo.co.uk down. The organiser reserves the right to refuse to include any member they feel is not sufficiently SMOKING The smoking of tobacco, able-bodied to follow the itinerary. Members are electronic cigarettes and any responsible for their own travel insurance.. other substance is not be permitted anywhere in or on the premises of The International Club of BUYING YOUR TICKET Please produce your membership card Estepona, Bahia Dorada. together with the correct money. Have PARKING When visiting the club please prepared your choice of the menu if applicable. Final ticket booking: All tickets must be booked and paid for on or before the last Thursday coffee morning before the event. Late phone bookings cannot be accepted. Members are advised to attend the last Thursday before a trip in park considerately between white lines and never on yellow lines. Please DO NOT PARK in the car parking space in front of next door's apartment. Although it is not officially for their sole use it is better for peaceful relations that we don't park there.

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