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Holland, Switzerland and Belgium finishing up with a visit to the recently completed Brussels Exhibition. We travelled in a Ford Popular that completed the circuit with no trouble. When we arrived at the entrance to the Hotel in Cannes the Major Domo took one look at our vehicle and told us the Tradesmen’s entrance was at the rear.
His
attitude changed completely when he realised who we were replacing…mon dieu… Those Eccentric British. That trip was completely different to my
first visit to Cannes in 1952, when I chummed up with a petite American Prison Wardress, We corresponded afterwards and later
she wrote that she would be in Cannes the next year but as I had already made other plans I was unable to get to Cannes in 1953. Sometime later I read in the Daily
Telegraph that a young lady with the same name had been washed ashore.
I
wrote to her mother in the States and she confirmed it was her daughter. In 1968 my good friend Peter Riley and I went to Kenya and Tanganyika, now called Tanzania and made a cine film of the flora and fauna of the country. In 1969 we hired the Luton Town Hall
Assembly room and advertised the event locally. We showed highlights of our trip that included: Treetops Hotel, Thompson’s Falls, Lake Nakura National Park and Kericho, Maasai Mara National Reserve,
Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater one of the biggest Calderas in the world, Olduvai and Lake Manyara National Park, Amboseli Game Reserve and Lake Naivasha. Some 200 fanciers and townsfolk came to the event and all the proceeds went to the Luton Cage Bird Society as it was called then. In June 1999 the club was invited to a BBQ, organised by Audrey and Peter Hughes and held at their home.
It was
much enjoyed by the members who attended from both the North Herts and Luton Bird Clubs. The weather was wonderful as was the food and the company.
Our open show was a most successful
event due to the many helpers we had mucking in on the Friday afternoon/ evening and again on the Saturday, when all went smoothly. We had many compliments by visitors and showing members alike. Our special thanks go to all the non-
members who were there to help. However, more help is needed at the end of the show to put the staging back in the garage.
It’s a heavy job to do
especially as the ones that are left to do it are the ones who put it up on the Friday and have spent a very long day helping run the show, it’s not very fair to leave it to a few loyal few who end up putting it away year after year. Thanks go to Joe Dumpleton, Joe uses
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