TONIGHT (Friday), Tenby Arts Club starts the second half of the winter programme. In St. Johns Church Hall, Warren Street, Tenby, at 7.30 pm. Ten amazing events ahead, and this evening by popular request we are honoured to have Linda Asman who, 'through her own eyes' will present a community history.

Our guest was here last year. She is brilliant and indeed was a past club member, but time and events have whisked her away. Now she is big on the history around the Cleddau, much to our loss.

Your correspondent listened to and watched her presentation last year and was rivetted. Absolutely. Yet I do feel she has the world at her feet if she majors on Pembrokeshire.

From personal research I know the Creation focused on Pembrokeshire. Out of chaos the Great Diviner fashioned our coastline; laid our cricket fields; filled our waters with fish. Early man took up residence and I recommend readers to hack through jungle to Hoyles Mouth Cave in Penally to verify this fact. Cave dwellers were lovers of Pembrokeshire.

Sabre toothed tigers, mammoths, hyenas, jackals were all neighbours of ours and grazed contentedly.

Skip the dinosaurs, for they are very dull and old hat; but think of Pembrokeshire's ancient stonemasons. There high up in the Preseli Mountains, they cut out bluestone. Carved them into Lego shapes and shipped them to somewhere in Wiltshire where the English proudly proclaim their heritage with Stonehenge. Talk about the Elgin Marbles. They are nothing compared with this Pembrokeshire loss.

People will emerge as Linda Asman diatribes. Rebecca, the wife of Isaac, very good at rioting. Nelson came. Did some courting here. Augustus John, Gwen his sister, Sutherland, Nina Hamnett, the current artists in the Arts Club. All contribute to the rich Pembrokeshire tapestry.

Dylan Thomas came. So did Roald Dahl, George Eliot, Beatrix Potter and so on.

The Tudor Dynasty was planned beneath Boots in High Street and modern mathmatics evolved with Robert Recorde in this town. Sir Walter Raleigh is credited with introducing the potato into Britain; the miserable old main crop, but the sweet early could only have come from Pembrokeshire.

All of this and more. Illustrated too. This will all come from the mouth of Linda Asman. One can hardly wait for the sound of the chairman's gavel as she calls order.

Two pounds for members, four pounds for non members. New members can enrol at the box office for ten pounds. The club expects a deluge of applications to join. So please come early.

I suppose our speaker tonight will permit herself to be described as ancient and modern. Utterly, utterly fascinating. Can't wait, though it should be said that Linda Asman may not be so ancient. She will probably look at some more recent occurrences. Human and social history will predominate. A murder will not be amiss. Keep your fingers crossed.