Dyserth Tuesday Morning Group

Dyserth Tuesday Morning Community Group

It’s just an expression

My parents had a rotten deal out of life.  They had 14years of marriage of which my father was drafted into the army for four long years and posted to the Far East.  He returned and they managed to have four children before he then died a cruel death of lung cancer leaving my widowed mother with four of us under the age of 12.  I tell you this because one of my mother’s expressions, when we were being really naughty was: “Your father would turn in his grave if he saw how you behave”.  She could not have realised the effect on my young imagination when I was having visions of my long dead daddy turning round and round in his coffin six foot under the ground!

It’s just an expression. But to pursue that expression on our recent Remembrance Sunday, I was aware of thousands of folk turning up at memorials to the ‘Glorious’ dead’ to officially remember their sacrifice and most of those people were turning up in German or Japanese cars. Their deaths being in a long and savage war against the German and Japanese. The long dead might be ‘turning in their graves’. It begs the question as to why we allow our world politicians to still be carrying out slaughter in so many parts of the world.

The average human being prefers peace to conflict and we should be demanding it.

We have recommenced meetings in the Dyserth Community Hall in Cwm Road at 10.15am each Tuesday. I hope the folk of Dyserth will come along and discover the delights of hearing our speakers sharing some amazing interests such as ‘Life on a long boat’, ‘The million year history of making hand tools’, the fascinating story of The famous Chinese Terracotta Army or very recently the fantastic educative work of the Woodland Skills centre – right here on our doorstep.

I may have said it before but I shall repeat the wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci: “Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us”

See you there and you can bend my ear if you disagree with any of my opinions.. Dyserth Community Centre, Cwm Road, Dyserth, LL18 8BD

Michael Corfe, Secretary DTMCG 01745 585110