| A FRAME-UP AND A HANG-UP ! |
| It’s some time since we last had a Joint Fylde Print Exhibition – but this year, Doug Couzens, our irrepressibly energetic JF Secretary – belying his 80 plus years – managed to get us fixed up once again at the Solaris on South Shore Promenade, Blackpool.. |
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| All four JF clubs had to contribute 20 prints each. So the first challenge was to get our quota together. It is not a competitive event but it is a grand opportunity for all the clubs to advertise their wares and drum up some wider interest – and, with luck, some new members. |
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| Certainly that’s how we approached it in HASSRA. We felt we should give everyone a chance to strut their stuff for the club as well as themselves, a total of seven members contributed and rose to the challenge ! Not easy given that we had got a big competition coming up in the April with the L&CPU Annual, and we wanted to ensure that we were able to submit a good entry to that too. |
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| The initial task was to winnow all the material submitted down to 20 prints and get it framed. So, on Sunday 30th March, five of us assembled at Norcross to do the needful. It was almost like a military operation and therefore right up his old street for our ex-squaddie, “Lofty” King ! |
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| Selection made, frames polished and gleaming, printer churning, screwdrivers twirling, tea brewing – almost as good as being at work ! |
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| So many thanks to the team involved – Neil Pascoe, Paul and Jeanie King, Alan Cameron and Ray Willicombe (invaluable as not only did he assist in framing but he also managed to commit to being our chief “brewer-up”). |
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| And finally it was off to the Solaris on Tuesday 1st April for a good hanging ! We wondered whether we would be in for some April Foolery, but JF isn’t noted for its pranksters and the best the Solaris could devise was its new brass picture hooks, which were almost beyond a joke. Mind you, on reflection, some of Doug’s final “orders of the day” may have been a wind-up ! So, just to be on the safe side, we decided to ignore them ! |
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| Once we’d got into the swing of it, though, the pictures virtually flew up. Precision workmanship at its very British best. With a “tad” more here and a “smidgen” there and “Lofty” providing those vital extra inches at critical moments, we soon had everything ready for kit inspection by Sar’ Major Couzens. |
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| Once again, thanks are due to the squad of Paul King, Jeanie King, Alan Cameron, Peter Shuttleworth, George Hargreaves, Ray Willicombe and Neil Pascoe. |
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| The exhibition ran from 1st to 30th April, and was a great sucsess |
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