The first arrangement featured a sphere-shaped wicker basket topped with ruscus, rubus and bergenia foliage, with carnations and green anastasia chrysanthemums. This was followed by an arrangement in a flat basket with bay, hosta, pink carnations, pink roses and blue eriginon depicting children taught by Adele.

A long copper trough containing hebe, cupressus, fatshedera, orange lilies and gerberas for a church window sill was next, followed by a modern arrangement of phormium, fatsia, curled aspidistra leaves and orange proteas on a grey urn. Learning to swim was the inspiration for the next arrangement which featured blue stems placed horizontally on a tall metal container decorated with senecio, eucalyptus, grey hosta, viburnum and purple orchids.

Adele finished her demonstration with three placements on a spiral wrought-iron container depicting her family. These contained hosta, solomon's seal, yellow gerberas and roses with lemon carnations and yellow chrysanthemums. She was thanked by Christine Austin. The hostesses for the evening were Dee Hamersley and Irene Malverney.

Margaret Woodford ran a plant stall with the proceeds going towards the upkeep of a school in Uganda. The chairman gave final details for the outing to Abbots Ripton Hall on Saturday, June 21, and outlined the programme for the club's 45th anniversary in September.

The competition for a get well posy was won by Tina Staines who was presented with the cup by the demonstrator, who judged the competition. The posies were to be taken to Goodwins Hall the following day. The competition for three garden flowers for the Gladys Gotts trophy was won by Doreen Garner with aquilegias.

The next meeting is on Wednesday, and the demonstrator will be Chrystal Dyball.

Lynn Organ and Keyboard Club – This year's run of superb concerts was augmented with a further visit from international electronic and theatre organist Chris Powell, at the May event at Gaywood Church Rooms arranged by the club.

Chris played the amazing new top-of-the-range Roland Atelier AT 900 C, with its astounding and uncanny vocal effects, superb piano and other voices which have to be among the very best now available.

The evening opened with a Shadows selection including Foot Tapper, followed by Games That Lovers Play, and a Latin American medley of popular numbers. A change of style to big band gave us I Can't Give You Anything But Love and 42nd Street plus many other swinging numbers from that golden era with exactly authentic sounds and styles.

This was followed by a selection of Carpenters numbers including the famous Top Of The World.

Songs from the shows included Jesus Christ Superstar, Climb Every Mountain etc, and Hear My Prayer with human voice effects.

Leading to the interval, a selection of strict tempo dance music – including well-known bossanovas, gave way to an amazingly realistic Blackpool Tower selection, including Bye Bye Blues, Around The World, Love and Marriage and ending with Black and White Rag at incredible finger-blurring speed to thunderous applause.

After refreshments the second half opened with rock numbers including This Old House and Rock Around The Clock followed by a classical selection including Tuba Tune and romantic ballads, Misty – with sax and piano – and a quick change to Moscow Nights, Jungle Book and When The Saints Go Marching In, in authentic traditional jazz style.

The finale was another authentic Blackpool Tower singalong, with all the old favourites including My Old Man, Deep In The Heart Of Texas, Slow Boat to China, Sin to Tell a Lie, etc, ending with 12th Street Rag at ever-increasing speed with the well-known "waterfall" effects used on theatre organs by expert performers which never cease to amaze.

Calls for an encore gave us the Radetzky March to much applause at this highly-professional performance – all played from memory.

The next concert at the same venue will feature a first visit to the club by Steve Clarke on Wednesday, June 18, at 7.30pm. All welcome.

Contact numbers for all activities: 01553 829009, 01553 774664 or 01553 671285. All concerts are played by top professionals.

Lynn Humanists – Greenpeace speaker Mark Crutchley led the discussion at the May meeting. The current series is entitled The Global Climate Crisis, and Mark was particularly concerned with the present situation.

He outlined the great weight of evidence for climate change and described how protests by ordinary people were encouraging action to avoid disaster.

Important points raised during the question session concerned population growth and the role of big business. In many developing countries the birth rate outstrips resources already, and it was pointed out that the wealthiest nation, the USA, generally withholds aid from countries that have population control measures. It was also suggested that the commercial inertia of the great business corporations inevitably encourages a "more of the same" outlook rather than finding efficient new substitutes.

Competition among states, faiths, businesses and powerful individuals tend to further divide the world – yet the whole planet will experience the results of the climate change which has already begun. Carbon dioxide levels, for example, are far higher now than ever in the changing climates of a million years at least (now 380ppm, previous measurable maximum 280ppm). Humanists seek a rational response to these problems which will solve them, in time to save everyone from a desperate competition to survive.

The final event in this series will be at the Quaker Meeting House, 38 Bridge Street, Lynn, on Wednesday, June 25, at 7.30pm. The title is Fixes and Futures and a panel including guest speakers from Friends of the Earth and the Green Party will explore the choices, hopes and dangers ahead.

Because humanists believe that this life is the only one, there is every motivation to make it as good as possible both for people now and for the children to come. Humanists try to look at the evidence honestly and then act in the most practical and fair way.

Visitors are welcome at these open meetings and there is always a variety of opinion represented. For information about Humanists in Lynn, those in Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough (where a new group is starting now), or at the national level of the British Humanist Association, please telephone 07818 870215.

Organisations are requested to send reports to the Lynn News, Limes House, Purfleet Street, Lynn. Tel: 01553 761188.