Meeting 19th May 2010

In attendance: Jo, Cath, Helene, Mary, Wendy, Mandy, Terry

This week: Facilitator –Terry, Exercise – Mandy, Homework – Terry

Brags:
Jo…War Memorial in Canberra not particularly helpful
Cath…Grandson’s band into semi-finals of band competition
Helene…happy to be relatively injury free after falling (or having a fall?)
Wendy…good to be back in the land of Oz after a visit to the old dart
Mandy…being crafty but not helping her back issues
Terry…grandson Bailey following in Pa’s footsteps with writing and poetry

Words of the Day
Jo…continues to be frustrated with US dictionary spelling (realize vs realise)
Cath…obstreperous…loud, noisy, unruly
Helene…bizarre…odd, queer, weird
Mary…nefarious…flagrantly wicked
Wendy…quotidian…daily, commonplace
Mandy…propinquity…nearness, kinship
Terry…iniquitous…bad, evil, unjust, wicked

Homework readings
Helene…a poem…The lottery
Wendy…a poem…England’s weather
Mandy…Family luck
Terry…Come-uppance
Jo…Making way
Cath…And the winner is…

Exercise 1…Mandy…A quickwrite starting with “I was sitting in bed sipping hot coffee when the nurse came into the room”…and ending with “and then we both heard the music”
As usual a wide range of different approaches including quirky.

Exercise 2…Terry…as per last week where we all contributed to a series of stories… a lot of fun and some actual functional stories.

Mandy continued with the Romance writing discussion.

Homework …a story including the words “I can’t believe I was afraid of…”

Next week’s meeting:
Facilitator is Helene…Exercise by Wendy…Homework by Terry