THE RAG Sunday October 14 1985 Free Disaster At Red Rag Happily preparing a full copy of the Rag on Saturday we received a phone call from Acorn telling us that the printing machine had broken (damn technology - bring back the luddites) oh well we thought the show must go on. Hence the Rag's size and condition. Next issue: Coordinator Laura 669562 Copy date 6pm Thursday 24th October P.S. Collective meeting 6pm Sunday 20th Oct at 92a London Rd. - - - SCUMBAGS It seems that the Minister for Social Security (Tony Scumbag Newton) is becoming obsessed with the hounding of Bed and Breakfast claimants. After having his Regulations on benefit cuts declared illegal by Justice Mann he is now using the Specialist Claims Unit to investigate bed and breakfast claimants in Reading. The SCUM (as they are referred to by many) were dispatched from Regional Office early last week. They are acting on instructions from the Minister to find examples of fraud by claimants. This information is desperately wanted by Newton so that evidence on benefit abuse can be presented in the press. This will pave the way to dissolving public support for those who live in the appalling conditions which many crook landlords subject people to. If by any chance the SCUMbags get after you, there are a few basic points to bear in mind, which put these creeps in their place. The most important thing to remember is that they have bugger all right to suspend or review your social security. Only the adjudicating office (ie Reading) can do this. So one way of getting the SCUM out of the way is to say "I'll only discuss my claim with the adjudication officer who deals with it from day to day". They have no right to threaten to suspend or review your benefit if you don't agree to turn up to their interviews, the purpose of which is to get information together for a fraud charge. If you do decide to keep these little minions happy in their work by attending an interview, you are entitled to have a witness present throughout the interview. It might be a good idea to contact the Centre for the Unemployed Welfare Rights team before your interview. (Tel Reading 596639). The SCUM also have no right of entry into your house, and cannot offer amnesty from prosecution in return for you coming clean. They are just trying to frighten you, and the reason they do this is 'cos they can't hang a fraud charge on you by "normal" investigation. - - - GOING GOING GONE... A wildflower meadow adjoining Hemdean Bottom was destroyed by bulldozers last week. They have scraped off the species-rich topsoil and left it in two heaps while workmen go about their business of creating an access road for the Summit Homes development. This site was not within the public inquiry area (which begins next Tuesday - 500 houses on Hemdean Bottom), outline planning permission having been granted in 1976 which could not then be withdrawn. This small site had many wildflowers and grasses including 8 species only occurring on chalk grassland and therefore found on few other sites within Reading, also 8 species of butterfly including marbled white, again typically associated with chalk grassland, and many birds including lesser whitethroat. What could have been done to stop this destruction? - I don't know. It is a savage illustration of what will happen at Hemdean Bottom if we don't win this public inquiry - how a wildlife habitat which has taken years to evolve can be destroyed in hours. The inquiry takes place in the council chamber of the civic offices and starts next Tues.(l5th). It will last for a fortnight. Try and be there for some of that time for your countryside's sake. Anne Booth. - - - FREE KATRINA HOWSE Katrina is the latest scapegoat in the Greenham witchhunt - she has been given a six month prison sentence by Reading Crown Court on framed charges. Many of you will know of Katrina's bravery, strength and determination in systematically and peacefully opposing the nuclear threat over the long period she has lived at Greenham. We cannot continue to let them do this to our sisters. You may be out touch with Greenham yourself, but - please write to your MP, the Home Office, and to Katrina hersalf at Bullwoad Hall Prison, Essex. More details about Katrina's case from the Greenham Woman's Support Group. Next meeting is Monday l4th October at Red Gate Greenham Common, then Monday 25th at the Women's Centre at Abbey Street. Penny. - - - VEGGIE DINING MK3 It has been 6 months since Veggie Dining last happened and if anyone is interested in getting it going again, there will be a meeting at 39 Coventry Road at 8p.m. on Monday 2lst. October. The idea behind Veggie Dining is that a group of people get together and cook and serve a vegetarian meal for about 40 people every fortnight. When it's working well a different group does it every time. Musicians/Singers who want to play/sing for their supper are also welcome. Anyone who cannot make the meeting can leave a message at Box 495 in Acorn Bookshop, 17 Chatham St, or give me a ring on 861907. Ian - - - FOOD MOUNTAIN ACTION On Saturday 28th September a demonstration was held outside the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce in Queens Walk, Reading. The demonstration was one of many actions taking place nationwide outside food mountain stores on the weekend of 28th/29th September. Because the EEC Agricultural Policy guarantees farmers a certain price for their produce, the resulting surpluses are stored in bulk by the producer countries' food mountains, not kept in readiness for famine relief or war, but for release when the market is "right". The Intervention Board in Reading co-ordinates the storage and disposal of food throughout Britain, and some food is eventually destroyed. There is sufficient grain produced in the world (without counting other foods) to provide each adult and child with over 3000 calories a day. Yet 40000 children a day die from malnourishment. Participants in the demonstration gave out leaflets to the public and collected around 2000 signatures on a petition requesting that the Agricultural policy be changed. This will be sent to a member of the European Parliament. The atmosphere at the demonstration was cheerful and the majority of the public responded in a supportive way. In the morning, security personel from the Butts Centre ordered banners to be removed because they were attached to private property. But not finding anyone willing to remove them, the banners remained in place for the rest of the day. The demonstration was given media coverage by TSS, the Evening Post, and Farming News. If you are concerned about the food mountains that the EEC agricultural policy has brought about, then write to MPs, MEPs, attend the "Fight World Poverty" mass lobby of Parliament on Tuesday 22nd October, 2-11pm (leaflets available from Acorn), and make sure these issues are given full airing in local and national press by writing lots of letters. Together we can move mountains. Kate Storey. - - - SMALL SMALL ADS ARE FREE FREE FREE Wanted - Double or 3/4 size mattress in reasonable condition. Donation to the Rag or small payment. Please contact Anne-Marie, 92a London Rd. Single Person (male)), non-smoker requires accommodation in the Reading area for about £20-£25 per week, (single room/flat -house share etc.) If you have such accommodation please could you contact me at the address below: Terry Banfield,3 Queens Rd, Banbury, Oxon. Turquoise patterned carpet and underlay for sale. 12ft by 9, suit 60s freak. Free but some kind of donation to the Rag would be appreciated. Tel. Rdg. 474815. 6-7.30 weekdays. Room wanted in friendly communal women's house by lesbian post-graduate. Ring Carol on 862774. Beds: Reading Univ Community Action Gp is offering 16 single beds to members of the community. If interested, contact Moira on 65012. Donation welcome. The teenagers from outer space need an R'n'B type guitarist. Contact Howard, Rdg. 667102... Room to let in South Reading, (Basingstoke Rd. area) contact c/o 867955. atART, Reading's community arts magazine, wants your contributions for issue 4, out soon. Send poetry, stories, rants, artwork (black & white, up to A4 paper size), montages, cartoons, drawings, scribbles, designs, and publicity/reports about your group/activity to stART, Box 20, Acorn Bookshop, 17 Chatham St. Reading - before 26 October. Ta. - - - EVENTS Sun Oct. 13th. 25 mile ride to Buckleberry Common details Paul Jardine Rdg. 483183. Conservation Kennetside Reading building footpath for council! details Peter Edge B'nell 420242 x 2305 day W'ham 781041 eve. Mon Oct 14th. Reading cycle campaign monthly meeting, the Sun Castle at 8.00pm details 848871 / 588178 Reading central american gp. film "No Pasaran" Palmer Building Uni. Gay Society at University 8.00pm. SU council rm. Not just for students. Tues 15th. Public enquiry opens into possible building at Hemdean Bottom, nice patch in Caversham. Wed 16th World Food Day direct action against the people who fee cows cement burger. Fri 18th FoE annual conference in London incl. tropical rainforest rally, details 888280. Sat 19th Recipes for Justice workshop Maiden Earleigh school off Wilderness Rd. Earley 2-8.30, bring food for sharing details 81929. Conservation Introduction to practical conservation 2 day seminar: £5:50 details Ewan Crystal B'nell 55338. Sun 20th Conservation seminar Party in the Park 2-4pm Save Prospect Park from becoming the next office block in town. Conservation California country park create new pond for W'ham district council, details Peter Edge 420242 x 2305 day W'ham 781041 eve. Tues 22nd Fight World Poverty Mass demo 2-10 House of Commons details Bet Tickner 474099 Reading East / Malcolm Wilder ?12588 Reading West. Feed the poor eat the rich. "Peace Education" Reading PPU jointly with Woodley peace group, 4 Halstead Close Woodley 8.00pm details Debbie ?90924 all welcome. Sat 26th National CND demo in London Hyde Park bus tickets from Acorn bookshop. Sun 27th Welfare State demo 11am Jubilee Gardens South Bank 2.15 Trafalgar Circle Transport details for jobfree from RCU 596639 / TGWU 580311. Mon 28th FoE meeting 8.00pm St Marys Centre, general meeting possibly with environmental videos. Tues 29th "What are worker coops" Free meeting Wokingham tow hall 7.30-9.30 organised by West Berks Cooperative development association, information and video session details 868488. May Day '86 8.00pm RCU create the May Day you want. Additions to the Events Listing... Monday 14th - Greenham Women's Support Group meet at Red Gate, Greenham at 8pm. All women welcome. Saturday 19th - Women's Review final rehearsal at the Women's Centre Abbey Street, from 10.30am. Sunday 27th - Women's Review final final rehearsal at Reading Centre for the Unemployed East St. all day from 10.00a.m. onwards. Sunday 20th - Red Rag Collective meeting at 92a London Road. 6pm. start. Everyone welcome... Thursday 24th - copy deadline for Red Rag, 6pm, then an editorial meeting in the evening at some (as yet undecided) location. Phone Reading 669562 for more info. Saturday 26th - Red Rag paste up at ??? - see elsewhere for details of who to get in contact with. Sunday 27th - folding and distribution of the Rag from Acorn Bookshop, probably from 11.00am onwards, lots of willing hands are always appreciated, likewise transport... - - - IN THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY Reading May Day is 7 months or so away, but to judge form the ideas at the first planning meeting, it'll be better than ever in 1986. March (yes)... open air rally (yes - it won't rain, will it?)... festival (bigger celebration - exhibition - stalls - food - dancing - everything)... music (Cuban-English-disco)... these are just first ideas, please bring yours to the next meeting, which is at Reading Centre for the jobfree, 4-6 East St. on Tuesday 29th October at 8pm. - - - TUC SOCIAL SECURITY DEMO Sunday 27th October Assemble: 11am Jubilee Gardens March: 12.30 Rally: 2.15-4.00 Trafalgar Square Buses from Reading Station 9.45: R.C.T X1 (Goldline) 10.30: (perhaps!) TGWU coach (ring 590311) 10.45: R.C.T X1 (Goldline) Join RCABS on the 9.45 X1 for the "demo of the decade". It's Our Social Security Don't let Them take it away! - - - "THE LIBERTARIANS", Reading Anarchists Student Group, have just been formed by a local anarcho-syndicalist. Evidently they are fairly "worker" orientated; they meet on Wednesdays at 1pm, upstairs in the Students Union at the University. - - - GOING OUT Sunday 13th Camden (London, yes) - nice to start with a local one - Frankie Armstrong: "Freeing and exploring the voice" £4/£3 Folk roots for details. Butler, Chatham St - Clem Adelman (mod Jazz) 8pm free Fullers Ale Readifolk - Caversham Bridge Hotel, 8pmish free Hex - Bobby Davro 8pm scumbag impressionists SHP cinema - 'The Shooting Party' (15) 7.45. £2:50. The mindlessness of the English Upper Class just before World War One. Root of the Matter (Mo's Place): weird beard 12 - 3. Monday 14th Hex The Fall: "This nation's saving grace" to quote their new LP: Punk meets the pro-art threat. 8pm £4 and worth it. Paradise - punknight 8-2 Bad influence, Blind allegiance and deliverance. £2.50 door £2 adv. SHP - film as yesterday Albion Pub, Oxford Rd - Pete James's Original Jubilee Jazz Band with Give It Hell. All free: 8pm. Bull Inn, Nettlebed - folk club, 8pm, free - the Portway Pedlars Silks, Thatcham: Rock Night Thatchers, Fairwater Drive, Woodley: Soul and Funk free, 8-llpm. Univ Students Union - Jazz, free, 9ish on. Univ Palmer Building 109 - 7pm - "Sandino Today and Forever" (Central American Soc) 30p/50p. Tuesday 15th Tudor Arms,- Greyfriars Rd - Gay Disco. Univ Students Union - The Untouchables - ska/rock music, 8-lam, £:80o. No Union card needed with ticket. OOTC - Bath Rd, Padworth. Univ Campus Concert - Palmer Building, 110, 25p: "English Love Songs" SHP Cellar Bar - Cayenne, (jazz fusion, Latin funk 9-piece). 8pm, £3:20. Hexn - Clannad. 8pm - melodic Irish folk music: 3.50 to £5. Wednesday 16th RFT - "Die Schaukel" (the Swing) (PG) 8pm. Paradise - "No to YTS Conscription" Benefit Gig: The Mighty Ballistics and someone else (Lost Weekend). £2/£1:50UB40. SHP Cinema - "Shooting Party" Thursday 17th Cross Keys (near Butts) country music 8pm, free. Sportsman, Shinfield - ditto. Excruciating Boar's Head, Friar St - live band. Univ SU - jazz 9ish free. No Union card needed. Stag and Hounds, Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead folk club, 8pm, free RFT - "Casablanca" (U) 8pm SHP Cellar Bar - Undercover Club, 8-12 £1:50/50p. SHP videoscreening - "Giro - is this the modern world?" Birmingham youth try and find the truth about living on the dole. Pop soundtrack and Red Ken, Frank Chickens and Jimi Somerville from Bronski/Communards. 7.45, free. Bracknell College - lunchtime flute and piano recital. 12.45 Horse and Barge Duke St The Morrigan. (folk) Friday 18th Tudor Arms - see Tuesday i5th The Lamb, Fversley - folk club, 8pm free SHP Cellar Bar - 'Friday Live' 10-2am £3 food available. This week it's boogie chillen. Cap and Gown - Lost Weekend (songs of drinking and death) and Terry Clarke (songs of I know not what) Paradise Club - Here and Now (Space Rock) and Strand der Vard (Bluesy Rock and Roll) and Coffin Nails (Psychobilly) 8-2 £3 on door / £2:50 advance (eg Acorn) / £2UB40 St Mary's Centre, Chain St - European folk and circle dance, £l, 7.45 pm SHF Cinema - "Carmen" (PG) 7.45 £2:50. Also £ 10.30 Film of the Opera, personal favourite of Marc Almond, I believe. SHP Wilde Theatre - more opry: Donizetti's Don Fasquale 7.30 £3:50/£5. SHP recital - The Homolka Trio play Haydn, Shostakovitch and Schuhbert at 8pm £3:30 Saturday 19th Leighton Park School - University Chamber Orchestra. 7.30, £3/£1:50 students OAP Party night -at Reading Centre for the Jobfree?? Paradise Club - Reggae sound systems 8-2 Hex - the snooker starts tonight. More than that I will not say except it goes on til 27th Jumble Sale - Royal Air Forces Assoc, Church Hall on Earley Xroads 2pm. Hmmm SHP Cinema - Carmen 7.45, 10.30 SHP folk club - Tony Rose singer with guitar or a concertina £l:30 8pm in cellar bar. SHP - opry, as last night Sunday 20th Readifolk, Caversham Bridge Hotel - the Portway Pedlars, 8.15pm, free Butler, Chatham St muse into your ESB with Clem Adelman's mod jazz stylings OOTC - 60s night. Daren't hazard a guess as to which hacks they've got this time. Oh, and why is there a prize for the shortest miniskirt?? Univ Music Dept, Upper Redlands Rd recital - 3pm The Ballad of Jackson Blake £3 Tel 860905 SHP - final day to view exhibition of contemporary carving and photos of Leverkusen German chemical works twinned with Bracknell SHP Cinema - "Carmen" (PG) for the last time 7.45 Monday 21st Univ S U - as last Monday jazz The Albion, Oxford Rd - as last Monday Silks - as last Monday Thatchers - as last Monday Bull Inn, Nettlebed - folk, 8pm free (to be arranged) SHP Cinema - "The Innocent" (PC) 7.45 £2:50 Young epileptic boy living in Yorkshire dales and his sexual awakening in the 30s. Starring Miriam Richardson (as in Dance with a Stranger). Tuesday 22nd COTC Bath Road, Padworth - Tudor Arms - gay disco Univ S U - Black Lace (Beerguts, pineapple shirts and 18-30 drum bags) versus yeah yeah neh (sarcasm, fine tunes and not really trying to be The Fall) An evening of contrasts Univ Campus Concert - Palmer Building 1.10pm recital for violin and piano 25p. SHP Cinema - as yesterday SHP jazz - Vienna art orchestra, 3pm £3:50 ten piece band with virtuoso ability and original humour. A bit like Carla Bley (he said, paraphrasing the blurb). Paradise - Wednesday 23rd Red Rag Peace Pledge Union Party at the Crown, Crown St £1 / a standing order / 50p if UB40 gets you a DIY disco (bring records), some food (please bring some to share) the 2 1/2 chords thrash of the escapists (hands up who remembers Louie Louie: Garage Punk at its most) Acoustic musicians welcome to turn up and play. Bring your friends and a cake (and a printing press) to celebrate the Rag's 6th birthday. RFT - "Rashomon" (15) Kurosawa black and white film from 1950: What is truth? he asks same rape and death in a forest is related 4 times by different witnesses. Also "Throne of Blood" (PG) Macbeth set in century feudal Japan: well I like it anyway. All starts at 7.15 pm. SHP Cinema - "The Innocent" again Thursday 24th Boar's Head, Sportsman and Cross Keys "music" see last Thursday SHP Undercover Club - 8-12 £1:50 / 50p UB40 Red Rag Editorial RFT - "We Thereby" (15) 8pm UB40 discount investigation of an act of violence after a society dinner party causes the hostess (V Redgrave, WRP & Bar) to recall her long-gone affair with a local boy Univ S U - jazz 9ish free music to talk about films to Stag & Hounds, Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead folk at 8pm SHP - 1985 Independent Video Festival preview free 7.45 Bracknell College - piano recital, 12.45 free Friday 25th Central Club - all night soul party with raptrack who usually play to packed warehouses in London. All night session £3 Tudor Arms - gay disco SHP Friday Live - reggae with Spliff Riff £3 10-2 food available Macrobiotic meal & Meeting 100 Northumberland Avenue. Phone Wendy 850313 in advance 7pm Fulcrum Centre, Slough The Cult & Support 8pm £4:50 from Listen Records Cap & Gown, King's Rd - live music, 8ish free The Lamb, Eversley - folk, 8pm, free SHP Cinema - "A Love in Germany" (15) local petit bourgeois destroy the love of a German shopkeeper for a Polish POW in World War One. Dir: Andrej Wajda and stars Hanna Schygulla 7.45 & 10.30 £2:50 SHP recital - Quorum, Xenakis, Sebastian Forbes & Debussy, 8pm, £2:50 Saturday 26th Paradise - The Survivors and Forbidden Colours 2 local bands £3 8-2 worth it? SHP - "A Love in Germany" (15) 7.45 & 10.30 SHP Folk - The New Mexborough Quartet 8pm. £l:80 A concertina band!! Cholsey and Wallingford Railway Preservation Society - are holding a diesel naming ceremony at 2pm phone Bob Morrison at 210 (Tel 413121) Bizarre Watlington House, Watlington St - Halloween Folk dance Alan Archer and the Bidford Band 7.30 to 11pm £3. Reading Activities Centre Bulmershe Rd Halloween Fayre, 2.30pm 20p. Red Rag Paste Up Sponsored Solvent Abuse St Crispin's Centre, London Rd W'ham - The Complaints and The Gathering, £2 8-12 10pm last entry. Horse and Barge, Duke St - Gay and Lesbian Celebration, 8-late Raffle ticket 70p. Sunday 27th Recover from yesterday's glue and special brew with Red Rag folding and distribution 11ish at Acorn OOTC -- nostalgia for a price Readifolk - Caversham Bridge Hotel 8.15 free Butler Chatham St - Toot toot Clem Adelman hangs on in there, jazzin up the drinkers Leighton Park School - United Nations assoc convert soprano singing, recorders, piano duo 3p, £3 on door inc refreshments SHP - "A Love in Germany" 7.45 £2:50 Root of the Matter - free lunchtime delta blues / juju Theatre Shinfield Players, Whitley Wood - "Bell, Book & Candle", 7.45pm, 17-19 October, £1:75/£1. Box office: tel 838315 / 883025. South Hill Park Wilde Theatre - "Scarlatti's Birthday Party", 7.30pm, 25 & 26 October, £2:50 - £4:50. Box office: tel Bracknell 484123. ( between Bach, Handel & Scarlatti: a tongue-in-cheek look at Classical Music?) Fulcrum, Slough - "Iolanthe", 7.45pm, 21-27 October, £2:75 - £3:75. Box office: tel Slough (0753) 38669. Wokingham Theatre, Norreys Ave (still) - nothing till 1st November: "Bonaventure" by Charlotte Hastings. Theatre Royal, Windsor - "Smithereens" (Robert Ackland), til 26 October. Satorical look at 1930s middle class snobbery. Progress Theatre, The Mount, Christchurch Rd - "The Provoked Wife", 7.45pm, til 19th October, £2:40/£2:00. Drink, divorce, moral, etc - restoration comedy. Box office: 477594. Appeal: Help! OK... just send in some information, OK? This must be one of the few free publicity listing around of its kind - so why not use it? Phone me on 868488 or leave a note in Acorn Books, 17 Chatham St. Lots of love, Mark. - - - SCUMBAGS One step forward... heartening to see the Reading University Conservative Association getting their just desserts at the University Fresher's Fayre on Oct. 3rd. Balaclava'd mysterons custard pie'd a couple of rich scumbag landowner-offspring who were sitting on a stall displaying leaflets like "Hiroshima was a nuclear free zone". Then some Thoughtless Individual turned their poxy table over... undemocratic? A democracy supposedly elected Thatcher and her sort, not once but twice. Three steps back... Tragically, Norma "man whose head expanded" Tebbit is not coming to talk at NALGO at the Civic Offices on Weds,(the l6t.'h). Obviously got better things to do, e.g. saying the wrong thing with Jeffrey "mine's a bestseller" Archer. Some other member of the ruling classes might show up, but in the absence of a definite target, whose trashing might justify getting nicked, it seems like the reception committee is off. Unless it's just a ruse by Norm to divert attention, which I doubt. Shame, really.... - - - WOMENS REVIEW Actual Thing: Saturday 2nd November, 8pm at Reading Centre for the Unwaged, 4-6 East St... Don't miss it. Rehearsals are progressing well on Wednesdays 1-3pm at R.C.U. and Saturdays 10.30-12.30 at the Women's Centre. Important final rehearsal datas for anyone taking part in any way: Saturday 19th October 10.30 a.m. at the Womens Centre, and all day Sunday 27th October at Reading Centre for the Unwaged (10.00a.m. start)... more sketches would be good... more musicians would still be welcome. Details & info... Penny: 662646 ......... poetry and dance Cath 864380 ......... acting and sketches Tami 596639(day) ...... general organisation Bridget 472297 ........ singing and music - - - READING... Produced by the notorious Red Rag Collective, Reading Between The Wavy Lines, the 1985-66 edition of the most unpronouncable and indispensable guide to Reading town, was completed last Sunday amongst rain, chaos, a Will Hay film of dubious merit and free lettuces. Printed on wacky yellow paper, with even more zany blue ink, the guide is as informative as it is decorative. New sections include the university, resources, cultural groups, developmemt, work and a splendid map; and all the other sections have of course been revised and updated. So now there's no excuse for not knowing what's happening in Reading. Weighing in at 75 pages (compared with 55 last year) this remarkable cultural artifact can be yours for a mere 90p, from Acorn Bookshop (17 Chatham St.) or "good bookshops everywhere" (as they say in the Real advertising World). Last but not least, thanks to everyone who helped put it together. Next year???... (groan...) - - - DEAR RAG I am shooting into total darkness by writing this letter. I don't know if there is a need for this sort of group, and if there is a need, I don't know if people will have the courage to come forward and admit to it. I may be stepping on someone else's toes - if I am, tell me and I'll shut up (but if there is such a group you should publicise yourselves better). I have had herpes for a little over a year. When I realised that I had it, I was struck by total panic: I didn't know where to go, or who to turn to. Obviously I went to the Special Clinic for help, but I needed something more than the clinical tests and results, facts and figures I was given. I needed another human being to talk to, who knew what I was going through, and to know I wasn't a solitary, dirty freak - which was how I felt at the time. I'm no expert, doctor or councellor. All I can offer is a point of contact and possibly a roof under which we could share coffee and chat, each others herpes and company. If you feel you could help comfort anyone else by your experience, or if you're in the early days of confusion, guilt or panic, contact me. Ain't it time something good came out of all the unpleasantness? Claire. Box 50, c/o Acorn Books - - - Friday 18th October Cosmic Experience presents:- HERE & NOW Strand der Vard Coffin Nails Paradise Club 112 London Street Reading Tickets form Acorn Bookshop & Pop Records £3 waged, £2:50 advance, £2 UB40 8.30pm-2am - late bar - free tea! - - - $Id: //info.ravenbrook.com/user/ndl/readings-only-newspaper/issue/1985/1985-10-13.txt#3 $