Page 35 - Phonebox Magazine September 2015

Cllr Phil Winsor
Jam Comedy Club
My wife and I, hopefully joined by our friends and families, including the dogs, will be embarking on the walks at the famous Newport Pagnell Muster on the 12th September.
Well the mighty Milton Keynes Dons have played their first games in the Championship at the Stadium:mk; it seems as if the Preston game was the ‘learning curve’ they need before demolishing Bolton Wanderers. It was nice to see two very experienced players in our Matthew Upson up against their Emile Heskey, they tend to use their ‘football brains’ rather than run about a lot. The national media’s coverage of the Dons’ being top of the Championship once again demonstrates the benefit to the city of Milton Keynes of having a professional football team.
The three Rugby World Cup games will soon take place and the Saxon Street highway junction improvements are finished. The final countdown to the ‘City Dressing’, Campbell Park “Fanzone” is taking place as we will be on a world stage for this prestigious event.
Well that’s about all the news for this month. Just off to Rome and Venice for some sun and culture.
Olney gets a Regular Comedy Night
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confident you’re going to love it they are implementing a pay what you like on the way out policy!
Jam comedy nights consist of a compère to make sure you’re having a great time and introduce the acts, and they are shaking it up a bit with a mixed bill of professional acts mixed in with first timers and new less experienced acts. This means we could find the next Michael McIntyre strutting their stuff in the comfy upstairs function room of The Two Brewers!
Not only that but every month they are going to hold a few short spots in the show back, for you or anyone brave enough to have a try, or if you are too chicken perhaps you have a mate that’s always cracking you up and all your friends think they should be on the stage, now’s their chance, just arrive
a whole plane and we got quite shirty when the military wouldn’t let us along even when we said we only wanted a little bit.... we felt we had been robbed! As kids we just made what we could of the world around us until the hour when the awful pain of loss struck home. Kenneth, a favourite cousin had been briefly home on leave kicking a ball around the garden with Dad and my pals, three weeks later we learned that he had been killed in Malaya.
Yes, as a child I had lived remote from the fears and anxieties of older people. Young children were, so to speak, readily equipped with rose tinted spectacles but what we did observe was real indeed and plenty we now know and do was absent in those days. The word austerity was unheard but waste not want not was a regular acquaintance. In like manner just about everything got recycled with no mention of recycling targets. Newspaper sheets were wrapped around our fish and chips, to this day I’m sure they tasted better thus, torn up pages were needed when going to the lavatory. I
am Comedy Club and The Two Brewers have teamed up to bring Olney a monthly live
comedy treat, and they are so
early and tell one of the jam team you want a crack at the comedy whip.
So in short, some fantastic live acts, proven funny makers mixed in with what could be the best new or possibly worst ever act you ever did see, either way it’s great entertainment in a lovely comfy relaxed atmosphere with no risk as you pay what you think the show was worth when you leave.
You can email the jam team on jamcomedyclub@gmail.com with any enquiries or to pre-book a table (you still pay what you like on the way out), they are free to book for groups wanting to be seated together ensuring everyone gets a great view of the stage.
When: Thursday 17th September 7.30pm, then every third Thursday.
Where: The Two Brewers, upstairs function room.
Cost: You decide and pay what you like when you leave.
Geoff Bacchus
may be in error but I don’t think toilet rolls were invented before 1947. Kitchen waste and more went to the garden compost heap to play its part in Dig For Victory. Now that campaign spread to the encouragement of thousands of unofficial allotments as people raised crops on grass verges: close to my own home the traffic islands in the main road yielded cabbages galore and I remember admiring a splendid crop of strawberries, everyone knew who had grown them and none were scrumped but plenty were given out to neighbours. Grass cuttings were fed to caged rabbits which many a butcher found very acceptable.
For ordinary folk at home those years were a time of sharing without envy or greed so crime rates were so low as would be quite unbelievable today. There was a degree of harmony and social cohesion which has been lost betimes. For all the hundreds of benefits we have gained from science and technology which we now take for granted we will be ill advised to suppose we are now living in a golden age.
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