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SUMMER SOIREES AND
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BAY TREE EVENTS WIRRAL SCHOOL’S
POIGNANT TRIBUTE TO
OLD BOY WILFRED OWEN
DISCOVERED
Merseyside based TV Chef, Michelle O’Dwyer is putting
the sizzle into summer as her multi-service venture, Bay
Tree Events launches its new menu just in time for party
season. A special edition of a Wirral school magazine
celebrating its famous old boy, War poet Wilfred
Owen, has been discovered.
Whether you’re planning a casual get together or a formal event like
a wedding or christening, Michelle and the Bay Tree Events team can
fire up your BBQ, prepare a mouth-watering paella party or even put
together a simple buffet, so you can sit back and enjoy the day.
Michelle, who has catered high end events such as the Australian
Cricket Team and the Bank of New York is focused on delivering great
tasting feasts to the North West and she’s not stopping there.
Following on from the success of her TV show, The Food Life, which
aired on Made in Liverpool, Michelle’s reputation for creating delicious
and affordable dishes has now spread nationwide and demand for her
teaching services has rocketed.
As well as providing top-quality catering services, Michelle also runs
a series of cookery classes across the region where she’s able to pass on
her extensive knowledge to her students. Teaching not only confidence
in the kitchen but also the skills required to learn and create brand-new
recipes and explore world cuisine has been a highlight for Michelle.
She said: “I really enjoy encouraging people to be creative and
confident with food, but most of all, my classes are about simply
having fun whilst cooking.”
To secure your place on Michelle’s next cookery class, starting 1st July
2017, visit www.baytree-events.com or call Michelle on 07960 220 229.
Produced over half a century ago by pupils of The Birkenhead
Institute, it contains original poems by the boys from the viewpoint
of the mid-1960s, some 47 years after the great war poet composed
his iconic verse.
Owen attended the Institute from 1900 to 1907. He often cited
his education in Birkenhead as the seed of his early attempts at
verse. The poems contributed to the special edition of the school’s
monthly magazine entitled The Advisor, strongly reflect Wilfred’s
own anti-war stance, whilst movingly reflecting the loss of men’s
lives in wars following WW1, which was described at the time to
be ‘the war to end all wars’.
Owen’s sentiments in his classic Futility are reflected at the time
by a young pupil in his poem The Pity Of War in the lines, “But
why the need for war? It settles nought, Just cemeteries from
fields where men fought.” Dramatically, exactly a century ago this
month, Wilfred Owen was diagnosed with shellshock and sent
to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where he met his
own poetic hero Siegfried Sassoon, who assisted Wilfred with his
greatest poems, including Anthem For Doomed Youth and Dulce
Et Decorum Est. The very rare school magazine has been donated
to The Wilfred Owen Story Museum by the family of a former
master at the school at the time of its publication.
To view more, visit The Wilfred Owen Story, 34 Argyle Street,
Birkenhead, CH41 6AE. Open Tuesday to Friday – 11am to 2pm
Admission is Free. For more information, call 07539 371925.
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