September 22, 2010

Present: David R, David C, Wendy, Cath, Mandy, Robyn,Vala, Jo.

Brag:
Robyn showed beautiful photos of grandkids.
David C's brand new car goes too fast - got booked.
Vala went to gym-plank position, couldn't be a spider.
I wasn't there so that is the image I got.
Wendy got a new MP3 player for her birthday.
Mandy is no longer a scrabble addict. Is talking about the recipe book we never finished before .. provided information re writing contest, children's books writing. Bernadette is pregnant.
David R has finished moving from his old house.
Mandy has solved the problem of the club's printer.
Jo had a fainting fit - doctor asked her if she heard voices - no one laughed. She told them about the first 78 rpm records, that they were made from paper. I think they all waited for Jo to answer 'yes' to the doctor's question. Mmmm ... just wait ....
David R's battery went bung.

Word of the Day/W/Y

Cath fatuity - feeblemindedness, obstinate.
David C suffuse - to thaw out, facial blushing, eyes watering
Wendy quaggy, adj. - swampy
Mandy journey - from 'journeyman' (source), hired workman.
David R taxonomy - branch of science concerning something, a scheme of classification

Homework: 'The prickles on his neck told him ........'

Cathy: A man went through a field and was covered with thistles (the Scots kind) trying to get through his clothing.
David C: 'Six Hours to Live': A dirty bomb was exploded in the Warragamba Dam. Contaminated water. Disease. Waiting for 2M people to die. Looting occurred. Sydney's multicultural population were dying. But it had all been a joke.
Wendy: 'My Excuse': Poem about trying to write about a subject she can't cope with. She did cope very well with no idea of what it was she was doing well at.
Mandy: 'Brown Sugar' A part of a romance she is writing whereby one of the characters got prickles at the back of her neck when she really contemplated marriage.
David R; Poem 'Hair-raising moments'. An animal wants to eat a man - the gunslinger kills the beast - the bounty hunter was then under threat from the victim, who was still alive.
His second poem: 'The Briar Patch'. A former priest fights the outer world. Falls into a briar patch then St. Peter called him up. That didn't work either, he ended up in the prickly briars for good.
Jo: 'Can't You Understand That!' About men and their hairiness.

Then on to the Exercise. 'A Child in a Crib'.

This was so good and each person's so different that we should put them into a book. David R, Wendy, Vala and Robyn did it in poetic form.

On to another exercise, 'The Journey of a $5 Note'.

Vala was born then became redundant. David C went from the Mint, went with a lady whose purse was taken. Robyn was given back and forth. Cathy came from an ATM, wanted to be out and about. David R, a poem about passing around a note, risky business. Mandy, new note, springy, so experienced everything in the world. Jo ended up in a drug dealer's home and carried on financial dealings there.

Homework: 'You open a drawer in your dead grandmother's house. What do you find there? What emotions do you feel?'