13 June 2013

Meeting 12th June

Present:  Geoff, Jo, Wendy, Elizabeth, David R., David C., Lyn, Cath, Leonie, Terry, Trevor.
 
News: 
 
Geoff:  Forum on l7th July and has a metaphor collection.  Not everyone has one of those!  Interesting.
David R.:  Rates rise, it did happen - has begun guitar lessons, wants to know how to avoid sore fingers -is only a learner, but he just had to ...    '"The 'G' String" ... alright knowing it David, but what are you going to do with it?
Cath:  Getting new glasses from IMB.
Leonie:  Done a lot of writing, correcting, brought together a former story and finished it off.  Began a quilt for a friend.
Jo:  Had her eye done.  Horrible experience.
Elizabeth:  A neighbour drove her to Iluka and she saw three whales.
Terry:   He and Virginia went to Cambewarra and was overcome by the lookout.
Trevor:  Made carrot soup that he thought was amazing.  Made us hungry.  A Soup King, not many of us can be that!
Lyn:  Robyn's operation - Lyn helped her.  Has retouched her own windows.
Wendy:  I think she saw 'Cinderella'.  Christmas in July search for venue not exactly easy to find one.
David C:  His Dentist got sick, he saw another one and was very pleased with the work.
 
Words of the Day.
 
chunter:  to mutter, grumble, complain.
crick:  stiff neck - to give a crick to someone.
blunderbuss:  a short gun firing balls or slugs.
sedulous:  hard-working, diligent.
precocious:  unusually advanced for age.
prosaic:  ordinary, dull or everyday.
emblematic:  heraldic device - symbolic object.
faze:  to worry or irritate.
forfend:  to avert or turn aside.
portenteous:  ominous, monstrous, foreseen.
feign:  pretend, simulate, sham.
 
Write-Word Exercise:
 
Geoff:  A new flag - we should think about it.  He wants a flag of gum-tree colours.
David R.:  A man like any man with a wooden leg.
Wendy:  Made a speech, she forced them to accept her.
Lyn:  Indian Princess and John Smith.
Trevor:  The Curator.  A Collection.
Terry:  He keeps talking no matter what.  He thinks he is one of the mob.  (couldn't hear who 'he' was).
Elizabeth:  Gordon had a twin brother, they were opposites,  Gordon blunderbussed his brother.
Jo:  A boy who wants to be an actor, his father wants him to play rugby.
Leonie:  A teacher who chooses his favourites.  Two kids who pretend to listen.
Cath:  Don had the blunderbuss.  Teaches everyone a lesson.
David C.:  Himself a sedulous child!  Uses a blunderbuss to swat a fly.  A real crick!
 
 
Homework.
 
It was 'Prehistoric'  but not everyone did it.
 
David C:  Began reading with 'The Devil's Orifice'.  Part One.  People going into a foul place - in Himalayas.  Forboding place, stank of rotten flesh.  Everyone keep together!  Danger!  Unisex toilets!  Mmm...  Men and women argue, Henry was torn to pieces.  I think the unisex toilets ate him.
Cath:  'Prehistoric'.   A boy becoming a man - they all make a canoe, one moon to go to manhood.  A group picture of prehistory.
Leonie:  A treatise on prehistory.  How we look back at it.   Why we are, how we are, today.
Jo:  Prehistoric - a nursery rhyme about slime coming out and becoming Man.
Terry:  Nomads.  He knocked a bloke (out) who wasn't human.  Terry is frightened, this is terrible, Wally suddenly pulled off his mask and they were friends again.  
Trevor:  The Poet Laureate and the Don.  Tennyson and his connection to the Governor of South Australia.
Lynn:  Run, Rudd, Run.  The red tide.
Wendy:  I think it is hers.  'The older generation can teach the younger, and win points too.
Helene:  Prehistoric.  She found prehistoric pillows under pillow protectors.
Fifi is at it again.  Going for a walk with Gigi - she likes music - Helene hurt her leg, or Fifi did,  She's the one who is blamed for it all anyway.  Dingoes going to get her.  I think that is a good idea.  But, damned Fifi saves the day.
David R:  Went to Nurse's (?).  A blood sucker, Doctor Death came.  They are going to send him to a museum.  (Seems to be a good place, eh, readers?)
Gary:  A prehistoric Australian.  A true story.  Dawa, a teenager long ago.  The everyday life of aboriginal people.
Geoff:  Prehistoric.  Dinosaurs, millions of years.  Creationists not in sync with the rest of us.  Pre-history can be recent.
 
David read his poem, 'Echoes'.
 
 
Homework:  In the Middle of Winter, or just 'Winter'.
 

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