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We meet on the first Wednesday of the month from 1 - 4 pm at Vincentia Golf Club
Ring Pat on 0405 325 235 for more information.
23 September 2009
Meeting on 23rd Sept. 2009
Present: Terry, Mandy, Robyn, Vala, Ray, Melissa, David C, Helene, Kathy, Jo.New person Ray attended.
Brag: Kathy bragged re letterbox. Mandy finished synopsis. David has finalised his radio pieces to be broadcast 9am, 3.10.09, 92.7 Community Radio. David explained that anyone of us can go on radio, just ask him.
Jo explained the elitist rules of a competition which she didn’t win. Most of us agree that the rules are just too twee.
Discussion on uses of commas, colons, semicolons. Some of us figure that we are old enough and savvy enough to use punctuation as it should be used, as a means to indicate mood, or time, or a separation of things, if only for a second.
Word: Kathy: ‘idiosyncrasy’ – characteristic, mode of expression. Helene: ‘empirical’ –guided by experience or experiment. Wendy told us about rabbits – mercury poisoning in America, fur for hats containing this – ergo: ‘mad as a hatter’.Mandy: ‘kerfuffle’ – rumpus. Robyn: ‘vaunt’- glost, boast. Terry: ‘pachyderm’ – thick-skinned, not only for elephant, e.g. rhinoceros.David C:: litany’ – a collection of short prayers.
Reading of HomeworkKathy – sequel to Gone With The Wind. (ValaGWTW). – V.G. Melissa – The Breakfast Club Reunion – well done. Helene – Margaret Attwood – getting rid of irritating characters with silly names. Wendy – Poor Mickey Rourke poem – excellent (trite and tender)Mandy – Mash, life before and after – worked out well and believable. Terry – ClarkKent’s old age. Unrequited love (never slept with Lois?) Oh dear. Poor old Superman.David C. – Darcy’s lost love – poem with a meal at the end. Sequel. He’s sick, eats kangaroo, then to the hospital. Roadkill doesn’t make good eating. Ray read poem 1: humorous. Wants a lady but God lets him down. 2. Must write happy things so the poem is about the life of a poet. 3. This poem asks, why does he need a wife anyway? Jo read about Red Riding Hood, not the first time someone has suggested that she is a slut but this time she is also a murderess, kills Grandma and lives in sin with the wolf.
Exercise: Description needed for list that David C. supplied to each of us. All enjoyed – all different – good fun.
We go to Robyn’s next Wed. Lunch first, l2 noon. Bring a plate, movie is going to be ‘Crash’.
Homework for week after that, ‘It all started on a Spring morning …’ or a ‘soft Spring morning’ whatever grabs you.
