Afternoon Tea at the Library

                            

   Hello  Everyone!

 

  Lady M still here and for one more week before Sofia and Donald return from their travels. As many of you know she goes out on a Monday for afternoon tea at a local library. It is the Langley Library in Sandwell where many activities are offered throughout the week. For the 'Over 55's' there's tea/coffee and cakes from 2.30 until 4.00 p.m. on a Monday afternoon.        

                                                                                                         
Well, she didn't need asking twice! The library staff provide the tea and coffee and one of them makes excellent cakes. We pay £1 and it goes to charity. It's  the Macmillan Cancer Nurses, I think! There's usually between 6 and 9 of us gathered round two tables in the centre of the main library room. We use it as a social occasion for chit-chat and humour as well as discussing and selecting library books.

 You'll have noticed that I, as an author, like my books noticed! The local community know I refer to them as my 'babies' and I always look on the shelf and see how many are still there and how many are out in homes being read. If they stay on the shelf too long I make sure someone takes them home for a change of scenery. Sandra, above has the right idea as she fosters Time & Tide. Sandra, with Pauline and Maureen right are tucking into tea and cakes midst much laughter and joking. Ladies, thank you for brightening my Mondays!

 Gone are the days of libraries being places of reading, research or book selection in silence. They are now focal points of communities with numerous activities. More about that next week but before then, if you've not ventured into your local library since childhood days why not make it a kind of 'first' and pop in and see how its changed. You'll be amazed.

Lady M.