Rainbow Beach – Library Happenings – August 2017
Gorgeous Archie has a wonderful time at the library’s First Five Forever mornings, Thursdays at Tin Can Bay – also on Mondays at Rainbow Beach
Monday and Thursday 9.30am – 12.30pm, Wednesday and Friday 2pm – 5pm,
Saturday 9am – 12noon, 5486 3705
Visit us at: www.gympie.qld.gov.au/library
Keep up to date with our Techno Thursdays classes.
August Techno Thursday sessions are all about tablets and iPads and are on at all Gympie Regional Libraries. Come along August 17 to the session at the Rainbow Beach Library at 10am-12noon (phone 54863705 to book) or at the Tin Can Bay Library on – 2pm-4pm (phone 54864355 to book).
Bookings are essential and don’t forget to bring along your iPad or tablet.
Art Workshops at Rainbow Beach Library
Join us every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 10am for art workshops by Jenny! Jenny will cover various types of art – from sketching with charcoals to painting with watercolours and pastels – morning tea provided.
Book Review
Mr. Wigg by Inga Simpson – AF SIMP
A GOOD READ – Sunshine Coast author Inga Simpson has a concise, but easy to read, style of writing. Her first book, Mr Wigg, tells the story of an independently-minded farmer whose wife has recently died; of his advancing age, and failing health.
Mr. Wigg’s great loves are his two grandchildren, his orchard and his poultry, and cricket. He encourages the children to learn the hands-on approach to cook their own treats ; go and collect the eggs, and use these and other ingredients to make their own cakes and other treats in his kitchen. Go and pick some strawberries to top off the cake, eat it – and lick the bowl. No need for smartphones here!
Family succession is an underlying issue with his two adult children. A son who worries about Mr. Wigg living alone, and a daughter who just wants her share of the estate, add to modern day realism within rural families.
Also of interest is Mr Wigg’s blacksmithing skills. He explains how the old ‘smithys’ turned bits of iron into works of art.
I so enjoyed Inga’s style of writing ….If you are interested in local nature – as I am – I feel sure you will also.
