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Jan Reilly Trophy 25
Hi, and welcome to the circus ... Ok, not really. Tonight we had our first trophy competition of the season. The Jan Reilly Trophy. Now Jan was a bit of a party animal who also loved to travel, before some trick of fate decreed that her sun should no longer brighten our skies. Many moons ago, she started up this blog page, you can still catch her witterings by checking out the PubOffy posts. Now our competition is dedicated to her love of travel. After much nagging we managed
nicktrye0
Dec 4, 20252 min read
Tate Tell Tales
Hi, Tonight we was entertained by David Lambert. We started off slowly, our machine didn’t want to play any sort of PowerPoint Show. A lot of sweating, swearing and making a promise to the machine that we wouldn’t beat its sorry ass, we finally downloaded a program that would play David’s file. David’s tale was of his beginnings in the heart of Essex, an article in the local rag (the Chelmsford & Essex Weekly News … remember that?) with an article about twins. Due to circumst
nicktrye0
Nov 27, 20253 min read


nicktrye0
Nov 20, 20250 min read
Onyxpected item in Bagging area
Wowser Long time no see. Hokay, it’s good to be back. Tonight’s word is brought to you to tell you what we’ve been up to. We had our second competition of the season. T’was a print competition, yeah we still do prints here. Our judge for the evening was David Portwain. Our subject was People at Work. We had 42 prints up there for David to peruse. Quite a good turn out really It was a lively evening with plenty of banter back & forth between us & the adjudicator. I like to thi
nicktrye0
Nov 20, 20252 min read
Sam Tuck '25
Hello peeps Onyx here Well that's another fine mess you've gotten me into! Tonight was our annual homage to one of our fallen members. A...
Onyx
Mar 6, 20252 min read
Close Up & Macro
Tonight we are entertained by Billericay based Photographer Daniel Bridge. A bit of history. He looks impossibly young to have started...
Onyx
Feb 20, 20254 min read
Onyx the Obscure
Abstract representing ideas in geometric and other designs, not in the form of nature ... so it says in my dictionary!...
Onyx
Feb 13, 20252 min read
Onyx is Black
Hello peeps, long time no see. Happy New Year & I hope Santa bought you some of what you desired. Well, we've got the new year up and...
Onyx
Feb 6, 20252 min read


Baryonyx needs updating
Hey, is it really a year since this trophy was up for grabs. Wowser! Ok, tonight it was the Jan Reilly Trophy. The competition was set up...
Onyx
Dec 6, 20243 min read
Wheely Onyx?
Hey ya folks Tonight it was our first print competition of the season. Wheels. Our adjudicator was an old friend to the club. It was a...
Onyx
Nov 20, 20242 min read
Onyx, she whispered huskily
Some more of my witterings Last night we were entertained by El Presidente A photo quiz Steve had wandered around our fair town, looking...
Onyx
Nov 14, 20242 min read


Onyx is Ornery
Evening Peeps, tonight we were entertained by our second PDI competition Heybridge & Maldon. We had Nick Bowman from Loughton to be the...
Onyx
Oct 31, 20242 min read
Onyx darkens everyone’s doorstep
Hey ya, Long time no post. How are you? All well I hope? Ok, what’s been happening at the club of late? Well, the week after the Animals,...
Onyx
Oct 24, 20242 min read


A Penny for your Thoughts
Well, last competition of the season, set for us by last years champ, Tony. Through out the month of August, our target was to take six...
Onyx
Sep 11, 20243 min read


Just a Quickie
Sorrry, details are a bit sketchy, surrendered the lap top with all the info about last nights competition on it. Doh! Winners from 51...
Onyx
Jun 6, 20241 min read
An Onyxpected Evening
Hi peeps. Tonight we was entertained by our judge of a few weeks back. Mr. Roy Essery. Welcome Mr. Roy. Roy wanted to talk to us about...
Onyx
May 2, 20244 min read
Chris & the Orient Express
Ok, that’s rather an ambiguous title. Tonight’s speaker was our Chris and he spoke of the company A Dunn & Son. He spoke of how Albert...
Onyx
Apr 26, 20243 min read
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