Minutes of meeting 30.5.12

 

Present:  David R, David C., Terry, Geoff, Wendy, Jo, Leonie.

 

News:  David C. painted two rooms.  Geoff recalled Doc Watson, musician, who died in USA recently.  Wendy is going to Canberra, hopes to see snow.  David R has spent much time looking at sunrises, poetic soul!  Jo brought a picture of a black cockatoo.  Terry has a good friend coming re family history. Leonie went to Fitzroy Falls.

 

Word of the Day:

 

David R: admonition: verbal discipline (a good telling-off).

Wendy: flagitious: extremely wicked.

Geoff: nebulous: cloudy - unclear.

David C: per se: by or in itself.

Leonie  To cow: to intimidate - to depress with fear.

Terry: abject: wretched or miserable.

Jo: satchel: a bag with a shoulder-strap, a school bag.

 

Quick write based on Word of the Day

 

Dave C. wrote about a newpaper boy - news of the day.

Geoff - a man's son - a failure - a waste of space.

Wendy: Mum says a lot to her that upsets her.

David R: Poverty - schoolkids - unhappy students.

Jo: High school wasn't good.

Terry: Abacus Strangefellow keeping ears in his satchel.  Hit on the head by a mallet

Leonie: A dreary day - he has murdered his flatmate - not guilty.

 

Homework

 

Helene (read by Terry): An uninviting house, negative things, but she finds positive beauties outside.

Jo: The fly who wished to be a blowfly.

David R: 'Dark Light' - what is in the sandhills.  'Light and Shade' - of life, nuances of love and pain.

Wendy: The boyfriend - weirdo - going to bite her neck at the end of the night.

David C: 'Pot of Gold' - rainbows - where is the end - I wish, oh, Shamus found it!

Leonie: Scenes - the sea, new home, new life!  Perceptions - people in a nursing home.\

Terry...Perceptions...the dark side and the light side of nursing home residents

 

Geoff read more of his book about Japan.  We spoke about cultural differences and difficulties regarding language.

 

Then we did a word-finding exercise, all had different answers, yet all were correct, always wonder at how we do that.

We finished off the afternoon with a choice of funny sentences, quick write on these, most of us chose 'What should the Queen always have in her handbag?'

 

Terry: A story about bunnies (poem), and another poem about the Queen's handbag.

Geoff, a funny one. Wendy, who thought the Queen should carry a disposable toilet cover, and 'poor old Phil'. 

Jo, thought the Queen should wear fluffy penguin slippers on the way home from waving.

David C wrote about the day at the zoo - he is the elephant carer, he painted the elephants' toenails red.

Leonie gave very plain instructions on how to fly a plane. ???

David R found a way to climb a banana tree without a ladder by flying in a gyrocopter, but it all went wrong.

 

These were all very funny, we did have a good laugh.

 

 

Homework:  How we feel the change of seasons - Autumn to Winter.