06 September 2012

Record of meeting 5 September 2012

Present

Garry, Leonie, Jo, Terry, Trish, Wendy W, Helene and  Cath. Welcome back Mary and Wendy G and welcome to Jenny visiting from the Gold Coast.

 
News

Cath supervised a learner driver. Leonie went to see to the Sydney Long exhibition at the National Gallery Canberra. Garry called his birth mum who has had a stroke and has a live in carer and his step mother is still in respite. Helene’s husband has bought a new boat. Wendy going to Victoria for a few days and will go on a talking tram in Ballarat. Trish has her own garden bed. Terry has enjoyed watching the Para Olympics and the attitudes of the athletes. Wendy G has her first great grandchild. Mary went on a great 32 day cruise around the Mediterranean and looked for a job with MI5. Jo saw a dead wallaby with a shoe on the side of the road. Jenny watched the Para Olympics and commented on the skills of the presenters.

 
Words of the day

Evoke = to summon, to recall

Ineradicable = cannot be torn out

Backronym = makes a word forward or backwards

Pinking = producing a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge

Moral turpitude = depraved in mind and body

Arbitration = a legal technique for disputes outside the court system

Sardonic = cold scornful, bitterly contemptuous

Aggrandise = to increase power, wealth, prestige etc

Assuage = to calm, sooth

Prodigy = wonderful, extraordinary, freak of nature, child of extraordinary talent

Spotting = keeping the eyes on an object while turning the head when dancing to avoid giddiness

 

Writing from the words of the day

Terry – the adult prodigy a brilliant poem

Wendy G – the lawyers and the tutu

Helene – Chinese food

Trish – The prodigy in my head

Mary – the wicker man

Garry – Gina the prodigy and money

Jo – the genius

Wendy W – in the pen

Jenny – the black swan

Cath – to flog and to golf

 

Homework

Garry – Peggy from Joyville collected horse poop - hilarious

Leonie – Red riding hood, Cinderella, Snow White and Bo Peep working together – another hilarious story

Trish – a dark pub, pale grey eyes in the dark

Terry - if the Foo shits wear it

Jo – be sure of your facts

Jenny – an ode to Vincentia

Helene – do not fall

Terry – graffiti  

 
Reading

Leonie read a poem she had written in the 80s – Direction - Choose wisely

 
Exercise

We then did the old Progressive write which produced some strange stories with lots of laughs.

 
Homework

What is worse – make a comparison between two options eg fat or thin, with children or childless, rich or poor, being ambitious or not being ambitious, drought and floods – make a choice or not - LOL.

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 


 

 

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