Record of meeting 7 November 2012

Present

Cathy, Leonie, Jo, Wendy, Gary, Geoff, Helene

 

News

Wendy: Went camping in Nowra - 30 bikes - good time, got flu, stiff neck.

Cath: Bought grass and painted shelves.

Jo: Didn't get to Trish's Melbourne Cup Day, although she was there.

Leonie: Went to Trish's got third prize.

Gary: Went to Seniors for lunch Cup day, good food provided. Got the winner, gave the ticket away.

Geoff: Went to Sydney Men's Choir, Entertainment Centre - good crowd - his son was in USA floods, cons. no sight-seeing.

Helene: Picked up her grandson for a week's visit.

 

Words of the Day

acrimonious: bitterness or sharp in tone.

reconstruct: build up

palimpsest: a vellum that is re-written over but originals still observable.

revivify: memory - re-live - recreate - reanimate.

camouflage: blending in - use to conceal.

intricate: complex, complicated, obscure.

fracas: noisy, quarrelsome.

 

Writing using words of the day

Wendy: Found an old book - cave talk - riddle must be solved a great poem

Cath: Two Paras. 2 tales, Tautly written in newspaper style.

Jo: Princess Zia - spoilt - 11th century story.

Leonie: Legal things - words of Law, annoying.

Gary: Broome - huge building project in Aboriginal land, not wanted therefore. Peace in our time!

Geoff: US election - acrimony - goodwill and negotiation on all issues needed.

Helene: Camilla in a Museum - helicopter in old book.

 

Homework - A scary stranger

Helene: Walking home alone at night - followed by car - wait and see what happens.

Cath: Tony waiting for bus. Going to movies. Has audition for play, as a scary stranger.

Jo: A strange man poem. Has ideas for her at midnight.

Leonie: Memory of car crash. Wandering. Has every problem one can have. Gets a job to save herself but is mainly on night shift.

Gary: Fairy story continued - Luckymole - cockroaches beware.

 

A Quick Write - Desperate Measures

Gary: A Storm at sea – the captain prayed.

Geoff: ATM's versus bank hours. The former rush for cash no longer exists on Fridays.

Helene: Marina, doesn't like Melbourne. She tells her boss she has an exotic disease which will kill her if she goes to Melbourne.

Wendy: Poem: Happy and contented with a rich, blind man and his dog.

Cath: Eugene, why? What's it all about?

Jo: The hole in the ground.

Leonie: Keeping relatives alive - let things happen when they will.

 

Other news

In the break Jo handed around an interesting family tree sheet, showing how young our country really is as most of the people on the sheet lived to a good age. Aboriginal forebears were included.

We enjoyed lots of conversation about little-known types of community life in different countries, new road rules in NSW and Iview.

We will all be at the cafe in Ulladulla next week, a few of us being ferried.

Poetry reading Friday night 6 pm Arts Centre Nowra and Saturday morning Poetry workshop – info on line on Arts in Shoalhaven

 

Homework

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