19th Nov 2011:   AGM Announcement Sat 26th Nov London
At our usual venue, The King's Head in Borough High St just down from London Bridge Station, at 12 noon. With Special Guest, Brad Ashton, writer who worked with amongst others, Groucho Marx, Tony Hancock, The Goons and many others during his time at Associated London Scripts (the consortium set-up by Spike and Eric Sykes).

24th August 2011: Win a copy of "Potty Time--The Complete Third Series".
The pages of the great Potty Encyclopaedia are opened once again with thirteen classic episodes of this marvellously madcap puppet series - a favourite of children and adults alike. Created, written and presented by the multi-talented ex-Goon Michael Bentine, Potty Time ran for seven years and was voted into 71st place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows poll. Priced at £19.99 you can get one for FREE, just answer our quiz below, best of luck...

Watch re-enactments of some of the world's greatest historical events with a unique Potty slant, and learn little-known facts from the venerable Professor Potsworthy - the source of all Potty knowledge. Discover how the Potties of Ancient Britain defended themselves against Viking raiders… revisit the Age of Chivalry, when Knights were bold and battled for a good Potty cause… hear stirring tales from the Potty Pilgrim Fathers, who sailed to a new life on the April-Flower… find out why the Great Wall of China was really built... and a great deal more besides!

3rd February 2011:     60th Anniversary announced:
No AGM this year (as such) as we are putting all our efforts into the Day Out at Grafton's

January 2011:   Happy New Year, and don't forget, it's renewals time again folks…


6th November 2010:      London Meeting  - All are welcome!  - Free food & Crisps!
The next London Meeting was on Saturday 6th November 2010 at our normal venue the Old King's Head pub, Borough High Street. The Special Mystery Guest was Sarah Sellers.

11th April 2010:      AGM announced for 1st May
Newsletter no: 129 arrived and with it news of the AGM. It was at the Old King's Head pub, near London Bridge. Starts at 12 noon.   Our Special Guest was Richard Bentine, son of Michael, who regalled us for several hours with anecdotes and stories of his life in the mad Professors's household. Great fun...

25th April 2010:   Win a copy of the new DVD of "Curry & Chips"
Yes folks--we had three copies of this newly released DVD courtesy of our good friends at Network

20th February 2010:    A "new" Group in Devon?
Michael Quinlan proposes a new group in Devon. Any takers? (see Members Forum page).

6th January 2010:   A "new" Group in New Zealand is in the offing.
Peter Black has emailed, searching for like-minded members in NZ. (See Members Forum page.)


14th November 2009:       Two star guests turned up!
Not only the wonderful Dick Mills (who enthralled us for the whole afternoon) but also a new GSPS member who turned out to be a newly published author; Brian Powdrill, writer of "Bottle's Treasure" here. new book page

1st November 2009:    London Meeting announced - with star guest Dick Mills
At a new venue this time, the "Camel & Artichoke" pub near Waterloo with star guest Dick Mills who is of course famous (along with Paddy Kingsland) for the BBC Radiophonics Workshop which gave us the Doctor Who theme, and The Hitch-Hiker's Guide sounds (amongst others) and for Goon fans' he gave us the immortal gurgling of "Bloodnok's stomach". And all those "night-time in the jungles of East Africa" type sounds; that was Mr Mills as well, so all-in-all, an interesting man to have as our special guest.

30th October 2009:   Anthony Green handed over the reins of newsletter design.
Anthony Green has decided to hang-up his palette and let someone else have a go at designing the quarterly newsletter. Editor John Repsch has thanked Anthony for all his hard work over the last couple of years and has said that a replacement has already been found to take his place, so thanks to Anthony for all his help with making the newsletter what it is today.

10th September 2009:   Win tickets to the 'Adolf' play.
Yes folks it's true - we had been given some tickets for the play "Adolf  Hitler - My Part In His Downfall"

31st July 2009:     Penny Points film a resounding success!
The BFI's night of nostalgia with "Penny Points to Paradise" and "Let's Go Crazy" were shown in all their finery to a packed auditorium.  And great news:   we had 3 copies to give away in another BFI backed competition, details were in newsletter no: 128.

May 2009:  The Society is now on 'FACEBOOK' here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69552662383

The rest of the 'Society News' page has been moved here