In this issue: Muswell Hill Library: successful campaign to save and upgrade the building.Muswell Hill birthday: 110 years old!Member Profile: Maurice Collins OBE. Compositor, charity activist and collector.Members’ Letters: double yellow lines; proposed Woodlands Conservation Area.Short Story Competition: John Crompton winning entry.Haringey Parks and Green Space Strategy: preview of the Tree and Woodland Plan 2021-31.Litter…
Thank you to all those who entered our short story competition. The independent judges, writers and journalists Valerie and Trevor Grove, were impressed by the high standard of the entries. Congratulations to John Crompton who was awarded first prize for The Americano. The joint runners-up were John Reid with his story Alien-nation, and Martin Burstyn…
by Martin Burtsyn Runner-up, MHFGA short story competition 2020 August 1944They’d motored down from London in the MG that day and managed to get to the coast by the late afternoon. One of his fellow officers in the Mess had told him about the magic beach and he’d decided to take Amelie there before he…
by John Reed Runner-up, MHFGA short story competition 2020 One spring morning, at a time when people still looked at blue skies and said what lovely weather to each other, a man met an alien standing on the doorstep next to the bookshop at the corner of the high street. Something about the alien’s casual…
by John Crompton Winner, MHFGA short story competition 2020 Michael took his Americano from the counter and sat down at a large table. The coffee was in a paper cup which was one of the many changes since March. Before then he usually had to share a table but now he usually had the station…