Wednesday 28th July
Mandy, Wendy, Melissa, Terry, Cathy, Jo, Robyn, present.
Brags:
Cathy: Rudd's band came second in the grand final. Well done!
Mandy: Did a good job giving the service in church. Provided a sugar scuttle for inspection.
Wendy; Had a 60's party for friend - went back in time in all ways.
Terry: Ran a Memoir course in Berry, was enthusiastic about his reception and the actual day. Is talking about doing the same in nursing homes.
Jo: Went to the doctor - again. Bronchiotomy next Wednesday...good luck Jo.
Melissa: Later, said she was working, teaching at TAFE, and is enjoying the work.
Robyn: Found a new convict ancestor.
Word of the Day
Cathy: Nebulous: hazy, perplexed.
Robyn: Terse: polished style, economy of expression, free of superfluity
Succinct: The exclusion of extraneous detail.
Wendy: Flout: mock, disregard rules.
Mandy: Tintinnabulation: ringing of bells.
Terry: Hubris: overestimating one's confidence, esp. for people in power.
Jo: Vituperative: to censure abrasively, to be severe
Focused: a word not spelled to her satisfaction in different dictionaries.
Dilettante: modern meaning: frivolous, old meaning: pretentious.
Homework - The Key
Robyn: Pam finds a note inside a teapot from a convict woman, who was sent to Australia. Pam finds a key in an old shed. The key was set with diamonds and made of silver, it was worth a lot of money.
Wendy: Poem about Karaoke at the RSL.
Mandy: 'Keys to Life'. Lyn met Tom. Tom makes their relationship seem difficult to continue. The key to the continuation was something she had to discover that was important about her.
Terry: 'Michael'. Poem about a homeless man who discovers the key to his new self.
Making a start on rejuvenating himself.
Jo: 'Moskeytoe Land' about a bush rover who encounters a locked door and with the key opens it to meet a giant chook, Colin, who spends a lot of his time swatting moskeytoes, viz. black crows.
Much talk about the art of songwriting, Melissa's playing field, with a paper presented by Jo re Dicken's illustrator, Phiz.
Quikwrite: We had to write a resume as a fairy tale character applying for a job. We chose different characters, which was interesting.
Homework: Write a short story about "Three shades of white."
Jo
