{"id":585,"date":"2014-05-29T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=585"},"modified":"2014-05-29T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:25:12","slug":"david-bell-speaker-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2014\/05\/29\/david-bell-speaker-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bell takes SI Cannock &#8216;Up the Garden Path&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u201cUp the Garden Path\u201d was the title of David Bell\u2019s talk when he joined SI Cannock &amp; District as their speaker recently.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>And it wasn\u2019t a talk about flowers and shrubs \u2013 but very amusing anecdotes gathered about \u201cthe privy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0David is an author and has been writing for 25 years; prior to that he was a Primary school teacher and Headteacher, living and working where the three counties of Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire meet. His first books were written for 10 year olds, he then wrote rather gory crime fiction under the name of Jack Wainer.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was when he helped out a friend in a book shop that he realised there was a need for books about life in the three counties he was so familiar with.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Then began his series of books: \u2018Ghosts and Legends\u2019, \u2018Memories of life in the Coalfields\u2019, and books about growing up in the 40s and 50s. The stories he was told led him to research more stories about the privy \u2013 which was usually down the garden path.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>David recounted some of these amusing tales: about threading the torn newspaper to hang on a hook on the wall; saving the orange wrappers for \u2018posh\u2019 visitors to use!, 2-seather, 3-seater and even 4-seater privies; and stories of the \u2018night-soil man\u2019 who would empty the buckets and throw soil to disguise any residue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">The stories had members remembering their own childhood experiences and laughing at some of the inevitable consequences of the privy in the garden.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Of course, those who buried the contents of their buckets grew excellent vegetables!<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It seems there is a village in Nottingham where privies and buckets are still in use.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>More information about David, his books and his talks can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/davebell\">www.freewebs.com\/davebell<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0Past President Pam McGauley and Soroptimist Maggie Shore gave the vote of thanks.Cannock Soroptimists\u2019 next speaker is Ian Bott whose subject is Black Country Murders.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>He will speak at the meeting on July 1st at The Barns.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>More information is available on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\">www.sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district<\/a>, bookings can be made via <a href=\"mailto:si.cannock@outlook.com\">si.cannock@outlook.com<\/a> or by phoning 07971 494510<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<a href=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/david-bell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-586\" alt=\"david bell\" src=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/david-bell-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/david-bell-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/david-bell-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/david-bell.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">Photo attached: l to r: Dr Janis Lomas, President, SI Cannock &amp; District; David Bell; Past Team President Pam McGauley<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: Tahoma\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUp the Garden Path\u201d was the title of David Bell\u2019s talk when he joined SI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>David Bell takes SI Cannock &#039;Up the Garden Path&#039; | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : David Bell takes SI Cannock &#039;Up the Garden Path&#039; : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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