The winter programme will resume on the first Friday in October, the 4th (writes P.M.).

This year the time of commencement will be 7.30 pm and all meetings will be held at St. Johns Church Hall, Warren Street, Tenby, always on a Friday.

The committee in all its wisdom believe the benefits conferred to the town and district by the programme deserve a wider audience. Accordingly there will be an offer to new members which will be difficult to ignore.

From and including a musical evening on October 11 (our second week) any new member joining then and paying the annual subscription of £10 will have free entry for that night. This will carry on through the season (to end March 2014) until the scheme is withdrawn; if for example our hall cannot accommodate the vast hordes attending.

This year, too, there will be hostesses to greet and welcome the new members. These incidentally will be men and women. The mind boggles; but, for sure, the welcome to the debutants will be warm, and never to be forgotten.

The start of the programme will be a very special 'Tribute to Dylan Thomas', organised and prepared by John Beynon. One knows that there will be many tributes to the poet in English speaking countries this year, but the Arts Club has a special and unique notch in the late Dylan's history. Not to let the cat out of the bag, the evening planned will be memorable. Come along on the 4th at 7.30. You will never forget it. An evening of readings. Absolutely hypnotic.

Then throughout the six-month season we will enjoy music. A professional dissertation in the form of stories and poems by Prof. Tony Curtis. This will be followed by a photographic evening, majoring on Tenby, by the highly esteemed photographer Harry Gardiner.

Then a musical duo from the West Midlands, and later in November more scholarship from Rev. Peter Lewis which will no doubt blow you all away and turn your minds, as it did to this correspondent last year. Storytelling, a West Wales Maritime Heritage evening, and before Christmas the Penfro Minstrels will be aboard with an evening of Christmas music.

Then on December 13 we will enjoy a Christmas Celebration, no doubt full of joy, mince pies, a glass of wine, and goodwill. Hopefully the hostesses will be around. The cast will be the talented members, I am told.

If this first half is exciting I believe the last three months of the programme to spring will match. Opera; an evening with a favourite artist Graham Hadlow will rivet you with magic.

A visit to the Falkland Islands, and then a mystical (digital) evening. Margaret Acors will once again turn us green with envy with her travelogue on the Eastern Silk Road. Her photography will astonish. Always does.

Then come February bring your gold, silver, diamonds, paintings, books etc for valuation. Yes, an Antiques type Road Show will be with us. Nigel Hodson, of Peter Francis, Carmarthen, will be the expert. Prepare for early retirement, some of you readers.

Japan, Costa Rica and St. Mary's Junior Choir will all regale inform and entertain. And our never-to-be-forgotten 'The Three Sirens' will take the podium once again with their unique brand of music, script, photography and charm.

Then at the end of March we will enjoy the perennial favourites the 'Memphis 7' with an evening of jazz. Stomp, stamp and cheer. You, the new members, will, for you have joined a society of excellence for a pittance.

This is a very brief skeletal summary of the programme. But each week ahead of the Friday show there will be a detailed preview in this venerable weekly newspaper.

Perhaps our new members should be informed that each week after the performance members delay rushing off as they join together with coffee, tea and the most delectable of biscuits. Chat, gossip or what, the hostesses will ensure a warmth of welcome. And for any who are slightly hard of hearing their problems are relieved by a loop system par excellence.

Finally, the committee apologise for not informing the public of the winner of the Graham Hadlow seascape which wa raffled at the end of the Art Exhibition. The lucky winner was Hannah Stephens-Bowen, of Loughor, Swansea. She was overjoyed.