Now for something completely different! We had been waiting more than two years for this class as unfortunately it had been postponed due to the lockdown. Our own member Jean has written in the most beautiful handwriting since learning it at primary school, witnessed by her school books, unlike the usual schoolgirl script practised by most of us.
Jean demonstrated how to form the letters of italic script, and she had prepared an excellent pack of practice sheets and a carpenter's pencil to learn how to write in lower case and upper case. It is actually very difficult to keep things consistent, and the concentration was so intense, you could hear a pin drop. We spent the morning practising letters, and in the afternoon used a pen to write sentences, some of the results below. I certainly have a new respect for the monks who produced those wonderful medieval illuminated manuscripts!
