Podcast Edition 2

Regret the Newsletter remains in podcast form for this edition. Please find all the usual newsletter features enclosed including Parish Notices, Council Watch, and Crime Figures. This edition also includes the return of our local history section with Hilary Geisler and, in Local Lives, we visit the home and studio of local artist Sandy Knowles.

Facts

 * Minutes from the last meeting contain a heated exchanger between Phil Mulner, and Judy Bryant, the treasurer. "Salty language" is reportedly used.
 * First iteration of Postbag
 * Tina wrote in to say she enjoys the podcast. Malcolm thanks her, then admonishes her because her address is in Heaventree, not St Elwick's, and tells her to stop listening.
 * St Elwick's Dramatic Society is doing The Nutcracker.
 * The Exeter Players, a splinter group from the Dramatic Society, are doing a different protest production.
 * Graffiti rates are up 400% this month.
 * Grass on the Green Club revealed to not be a gardening club, but rather a club for giving arthritic seniors cannabis.
 * First iteration of "Dawdlin' on the Maudlin" where Malcolm records people talking on Maudlin Road and the listeners try to guess who it is.
 * ANSWERS:
 * a) Sidney Lemure b) Jane Trench c) Don't Know
 * Hilary mentions that Judy Bryant had a problem with her attic, which turned out to be a couple squatting there.

Plot

 * The potential for a podcast jingle is mentioned.
 * Further problems develop with Roger Prunchkin's extension.
 * Builders flooded the basement, which is subsequently filled with Natterjack Toads. They're a protected species and as such can't be exterminated.
 * Malcolm is holding a package for the Weiss family.
 * Lucy Canning was taken in for questioning by police, and released 5 hours later.
 * Andre Mlakar's fence was vandalized with three penis and testical sets as well as what Malcolm things is meant to be a lotus.
 * It's thought he was mistaken for a retired Serbian war criminal when in fact he's a retired Slovenian war correspondent.
 * Hilary admits the misunderstanding is his fault since he misidentified Mlakar on his blog.

Local Lives

 * This edition of Local Lives features Sandy Knowles, a local artist.
 * She's running her annual open house this weekend.
 * The theme is "building", due to the Mt Ludford Lawn development.
 * She's planning to build a replica of a tree made out of bricks as a statement against the development.
 * Malcolm confronts Sandy about the recent graffiti of the school due to it's remarkable craftsmanship.
 * Sandy eventually admits to doing it.
 * Malcolm mentions that he occasionally sketches fruit and other still life, and used to paint watercolors, including some of his wife Cathy.

Local History

 * Hilary initially mentions that the house at 63 Radner Crescent used to be a forge.
 * This is widely known, since the owners call it "the old forge".
 * Later he remembers learning about a Nazi spy that lived in St Elwick's.
 * Nearly the entire segment is drowned out by a passing helicopter.
 * The story ends with "no one ever found a body and no one can be sure what happened to him".

Spoilers
This part of the page includes plot points from later episodes.