We’ve banged on about the lack of culture in Lincolnshire however we are trying very hard to find events and so we found ourselves going to see the Second Minute at the nearby village of Tealby.
The village hall was set out with seats and a low stage at the front with the play produced by the Nottingham Players. The play moves backwards and forwards from the present day to the First World War following the letters of a soldier who was in France in 1914 and managed to survive the horrors until the final months of the war in 1918. Millions of letters crossed the channel every week to find troops with vague addresses in France and yet managed to find their way. Mothers and wives sent cakes that arrived into the hands of their loved ones within days but the soldiers letters didn’t relate any of the horrors probably because the censors would have removed any references to bad news.
It was a moving play and touched everyone in the hall.
