29 October 2014

Record of meeting 29 October 2014


The group agreed that Christmas lunch at the Pelican in St Georges Basin probably 2 December is a great idea - Wendy to investigate menu and booking.

News

Terry now has his TV working perfectly. Pauline went various places with a French connection and brought a rare thing to show a non photo shopped photo.  Helene enjoyed lunch at Blue Bottles in Husky last week. Wendy is going to Sydney for her sixth surgery. Cath is ready to plan for 2015. Jo has finished an 85 page story about a boy becoming a man. Di is helping a friend. David C went to the specialist and all is OK.

Words of the day

Fungus = a plant without chlorophyll

Striation = a groove, channel or streak

Perfunctory = superficially or routinely

Skite = boaster

Yolo = only live once

Hootenanny = an informal gathering with folk music

Stolid = showing little or no emotion, placid

Rile = to irritate, anger or annoy

Sidle = edge along, fawn ingratiate

Stories from words of the day

Helene – I wish I was a fungus

Wendy – Blue suede shoes

Cathy – Gone crazy

Jo – Talking to a mushroom

Di – The family went out

David C – Anny and Harry

Terry – Goulburn way

Elizabeth – Not me

Pauline – At the water cooler

Reading of homework

Helene – Gilbert and Sullivan

Pauline – A family history

Elizabeth – News from her village

Terry – a face of gloom – a great poem

David C – Behind closed curtains

Di – Mary’s story

Jo – Mirror, mirror

Cathy – Too late now

Information on a TAFE Writing course

Diploma course - Writing for screen and scripts at TAFE Nowra one year course starting first term 2015. for more details look at the TAFE Website

Exercise - Short stories on the topic - Outside the box

Pauline – Not comfortable in the box

Helene – Never in the box

Wendy – Locking my sister in the cubby

Cath – Other people’s granny’s

Jo – A loner

Di – Why do we need a Plan B?

David R – In the graveyard

Terry – Just an idea

Elizabeth – Love of languages

Homework

What’s that I hear?