08 May 2013

Record of meeting 8 May 2013


Present

Robyn, Terry, Jo, David R, Trish, Geoff, Melissa, Helene, Cath


News

Geoff had a quiet week with doctors visits, Robyn will have back surgery on 17 May 2013 and will move house in June 2013, Cath donated shelves and timber to the Men's Shed, Jo has been writing and editing her murder mystery book, Terry made a spider web game for his grandson’s 6 th birthday, Melissa taught a TAFE class in Sanctuary Point, Helene talked about her damp chaser in a cupboard, David enjoyed a visit to the Pigeon House tea house a few weeks ago, Trish told us about plants growing  wildly in her garage in NZ.

 
Words of the day

Ecstasy – frenzy, beside oneself, catalytic trance, rapturous

Bagatelle – a mere trifle

Betwixt – between

Locus – a place area locality, a curve described by various points

Panacea – Greek goddess, universal cure

Clandestine – hiding information for people or groups

Attenuate – reduce

Farrago – jumbled mixture of things

Irascible – cranky, prone to anger

Anonymity - secrecy

 
Writing from words of the day

We wrote great stories about Mood swings, The bag of toys, Romance, Having his say – a very smart poem from Terry, The spy needs a holiday – a great story from Melissa, Maz the goddess, The jangling stage coach – a great poem from David R, Meeting at the church, Promises.

 
Reading of homework

My nude glory like human elastic, Kept in or out, Maz leaves town, Don’t fence me in – sung by David R on behalf of Garry, The right to make the wrong decision, Monument to Geoff cordial relationships over the fence and Barricades.

 
Reading

Geoff – a lovely tribute to Geoff’s son’s wedding on 20 October 2012 in the land of Mercia

On the shore – poem by David R based on the White Sands Walk

 
Writing exercise

We each wrote a list of characteristics and passed it on to the next person who developed a story.

We created great stories - Joe with green eyes in the jazz band, Life is not boring, Not anticipated, A donkey, Sally has a secret, Jim a motivational speaker, Icy water, Purely platonic, Dancing to Jazz.

 
Next meeting

Wednesday 15 May at 12:30 pm DDs Serendipity Café for lunch and short meeting. Bring your homework for reading.


Homework

Loosing a body part

 

 

 

 

 

 

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