Record of meeting 26 May 2010

Present: Terry, Wendy, Cath, Helene and welcome back to David C. We youthful people met in the children’s play room as the church was being used for a funeral. Seemed appropriate really.

Quite a few people away at the moment...Melissa...how are you? Coming back soon?

Brags: Terry has entered the Shoalhaven literary competition…not hopeful…seems like the ‘modern’ non rhyming style is preferred.

David C has a new Rav 4

Wendy will watch the State of ‘Oranges’ tonight

Cath’s grandson’s fiancé has been selected as a finalist in the Trainee of the year competition

Word of the day – short and sweet

Cath – irk…to annoy, irritate, irksome = tedious
Terry – blaggard (orig. black-guard) a villain, rogue, an evil or 'black-
hearted' person, a person of dubious morals
David C – umbrage…be offended, get the poops with someone
Wendy – popinjay…a vain or talkative person
Helene – comeuppance…get your just deserts

Homework – “I can’t believe I was afraid of…”

David shared his fear of using a telephone when he was younger Wendy and Mandy wrote about marriage. Jo provided a quirky extensive list of her fears as did Terry.

Exercise

Wendy asked us to write sentences using homophones, some used included pain & pane, fair & fare, herd & heard, hole & whole, mail & male, bail & bale, birth & berth, bare & bear, saw & sore, know & no, hair & hare, sale & sail, maid & made, bow & bough. David wrote a poem using homophones.

Quick write – Include the words “The whole thing was just too loud”. Stories included loud parties, loud clothing and loud behaviour.

Homework from Terry

Write a 200 word description of a place. You can use all sensory descriptions except sight. You can describe what it feels like, sounds like, smells like and tastes like. Try to write the description in such as way that people will not miss the visual details.

Next week

Facilitator – Terry Exercise – from the cupboard Homework - Helene