Laurel and Hardy and the Sons of the Desert are at the heart of Bowler Dessert magazine and Bowler Dessert Online
Bulletin
28.10.09.
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Sons convention due for
TV screening I've just received the news that the documentary that was filmed at the Near Dublin European Convention in 2007 has been sold to the Irish National TV station and is scheduled to be broadcast soon. That will then make it available for Sons of the Desert worldwide to view. Up until now, the copyright prohibited us from sharing this fantastic insight into our great organisation. I have been asked many times since the convention about the film and I'm now thrilled that everyone will soon be able to see the finished programme. It is thirty minutes long and shows the Sons for what we are. . . a great bunch of friends and a group that simply wants to have fun. Liam Muldowney
Blotto An edition of Blotto magazine (this time named Allerniewste Blotto 38) has arrived and it is a beauty. The text is all in Dutch. The heavily illustrated magazine has been absent for some time, so it was a delight to see it back, having lost none of its zest. Bram Reijnhoudt has details. Bed for a rest The Early to Bed Tent's 14th anniversary meeting was cancelled at very short notice as the venue The Spital Hotel closed down suddenly (again!). The Grand Sheik and wife went to the Octember Brats meeting for the second leg (or was it the first leg?) of the annual Inter-Tent Quiz but no other Early to Bedders turned up so that too was subject to a hiatus! Therefore the tent can be said to be resting for the moment. Grahame Morris The Blockheads
Tent's Christmas Party will be on Sunday
13th December at the tent's usual venue,
the Edinburgh City Football Club. It is
always a highlight of the year for
Scottish Sons. Hall race In a quiz in The Herald (27.10.09.) Janice Hawton saw, "At what racecourse is the Charlie Hall Chase set to be run this week?" The answer was Wetherby. |
Vote for
Rolduc logo Bram Reijnhoudt
has a new website at
http://www.rolduc2011.com
with three logo designs that people can
vote on for the10th European Convention of
the Sons of the Desert in Kerkrade, the
Netherlands in 2011. Worthy of heritage I learned recently that the dance "Tango" is now on the list of world cultural heritage. My first idea was that the films of Laurel and Hardy deserve to be on that list too. They are loved on every continent, the films are still very popular after eighty years and so on. Is there somebody who knows about starting a procedure to bring them onto the list of world cultural heritage? You see, I am not as young as you look, but that could be a task for a young generation of Sons. Well, you think it over. Wolfgang Günther |
