ZOOMING WITH THE 1000 MONKEYS IN JUNE 2023

 We had a heatwave in June and things in the Monkey house slowed down somewhat to allow for sunbathing and gardening so this blog is posted rather late. We had an unusual number of five-minute readers: 15 in all, owing to Janice's inefficient record of who had asked and been accepted. So it was a packed evening, The heat continued to distract us from the computer for another two weeks, but we have extracts from the readings of four of the readers to show you here: David Punter, Konstandinos Mahoney, Sue Johns and Pauline Sewards. The other readers were: Daphne Milne; Rod Whitworth,; Timothy Adès; Julia Duke,; Ray Pool; Roger Noons; Ranald Barnicot; Anthony Watts; Jeremy Loynes; and Peter Taylor. It was great to welcome Daphne for the first time to the Monkeys, and Pauline who isn't usually free on a Tuesday. In our 'in person' days at the Bar des Arts and the Keep in Guildford, she used to train it down from London and Bristol to read her work as a featured poet.