Record of meeting 11 November 2009
Present – Terry, Jo, David C, Mandy, Wendy, Cathy, Melissa, Robyn, Vala, Helene – the fun and laughter started before the meeting

Brags
Jo told us about a free 7 week course starting in December about community empowerment arranged by John Hatton – further details available from Jo
David C’s renovations are underway and should be finished before Christmas
Mandy met Margaret Britton (a former member) and told her the group is prospering
Melissa has finished and recorded to music Skeletons in the closet. Members of the group made suggestions that Bony M or the Living dead should record the single
Cath’s grandson was interviewed and had one of his group Czar Bomber’s song played on Power FM

Words of the day - an interesting mix of words

Terry – quasi – not real - from QANGO acronym for Quasi Autonomous Non Government Organisation
Dale – invidious – incurring or tending to cause resentment or unpopularity, unfairly or offensively discriminating
Jo – ravel and unravel mean the same thing - grey and gray Jo visualises different grey and gray hair Melissa confirmed the differences from her perspective
David C – gymnasium to exercise naked (we have no local gymnasium) and postulate and expostulate have the same meaning – to reason earnestly with a person against something they intend to do
Helene – exquisite – peculiar beauty or charm
Mandy – left her word on the table – we know what that means
Wendy – callipygian – having beautifully proportioned buttocks
Melissa – provided an article about popular Australian poets
Kath – loquacious – talking or disposed to talk much or freely
Robyn – greedy – acquisitive, rapacious (the strongest form of the word)

Homework
Many great stories and poems of buttons including a belly button, face buttons, flower buttons, tiny buttons, silver buttons, dog buttons, a nipple button, button fetishes and buttons with magical qualities.


News

Stories for 2010 anthology – Please email or give to Mandy on a memory stick your best contributions by February 2010 if you want to be published.

Melissa told us about a great band Beatels a covers band performing Beatles songs at Greenwell Point Bowling club on Saturday night 14 November.

Exercise

The two exercises provided by Robyn put some people out of their comfort zone. The first exercise was the possession game, to complete well know phrases, put us on a calm plateau. The second part comprising Alfakodo and Sudoku quizzes was not so popular with strong discussion about right and left brain thinking

Quick write

A number of favourite fairy tales were rewritten with humour– the fractured fairy tales included The Jolly swag man, Snow white, Little Red Riding Hood and a feminist fairy story

Homework

Write a 50 word story on O’Reilley’s clock.

Next meeting

Facilitator – Terry
Exercise – Jo
Homework – Vala