This (Friday) evening, Tenby and District Arts Club are staging a practical arts evening with two distinguished craftsmen. The subject is woodturning or really woodcraft. The experts are John Blake and John Charnock.

This event will be equally popular with lady and gentlemen members. Males have always had an affinity with twigs and branches. How many have taken out their penknives and sculpted a tent peg or at an early age daggers to slay dragons. In prehistoric times, cavemen started to make bowls and so has your correspondent, who tried to do the same, but ended up with a very poor cheeseboard dangerous with splinters.

I am told that men become very skilled, given a little guidance at this art. So gents come along and learn this skill.

Ladies will rejoice. How many ladies exist with men who do very little. Know how to turn the TV switch on. Sit on their settees. Read the newspaper. Moan that things are not as they used to be.

Yes, ladies. Get these couch potatoes into this demonstration and very soon, and with a minimum of practice, they will be scuplting and carving. Ladies will then be immortalised in ebony, choirs in all churches will be screened in oak; Grinling Gibbons will rise from this tomb ecstatic; all here in Tenby.

Personally your correspondent can hardly wait to find out how it is done. Roll on Friday. Neighbours watch out. And you watch out, too, for splinters will be flying.

Lathes will be spinning, see the chisels gouging, smoke and flame billowing. All in St. Johns Hall this evening. Should not be missed.

Our elected chairman, Mrs. Brown, will return to take the gavel this week after a virtuoso performance by her deputy Roz Oak. The club are blessed with talent, and our returning chairman is resolved never again to stride the stage thanking performers when they have only just begun.

Every Friday at 7.30 pm. In St. Johns Church Hall, Warren Street, Tenby. £2 for members, £4 for non-members, £10 membership.

And think, please, how wood is over-taking marble. Be ahead of time at the Arts Club.

At conclusion of the meeting, these visiting artists will donate the bowl which has been crafted before our very eyes. The committee have decided this 'objet d'art' will be raffled on the evening.