Dinner

In the foreground is the Club President Robert Parker (left) and Rob Penn (right) of Stump Up for Trees.

Rob Penn is a former lawyer, round the world cyclist, journalist, best selling author and broadcaster, who moved to a house beside Bryn Arw, fifteen years ago.

He wrote The Man Who Made Things Out Of Trees about the ash tree and Woods, a Celebration, published by the National Trust. He wrote and presented Tales from the Wildwood, a series for BBC4 about woodland management. He is patron of the Small Woods Association and set up a local community woodland group.

In the background, the President's sartorial advisor can just be seen peeping over his left shoulder.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,

And to do that well craves a kind of wit.

He must observe their mood on whom he jests,

The quality of persons, and the times,

And like the haggard, check at every feather

That comes before his eye.

This a practice as full of labour as a wise man's art,

For folly that he wisely shows is fit,

But wise men, folly-falll'n, quite taint their wit.

Viola's soliloquy about the Court Jester Feste in Act 3, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.