Meeting 21st May 2014

Attendance:  Jo, Wendy, Cathy, Pam, Elizabeth, Helene, Geoff, David C.

News of the Week. 

Geoff: entered the Newcastle Poetry Prize.  He said that the St. George's Basin Music Club is closing down, one Concert to go, late June, at Community Centre, Meriton Street.  

Cathy: Has issues with Telstra.  She has a lovely flowered top on, good enough to put in a vase!

Helene: Saw the movie 'The Other Woman'.

Wendy: Went to Greenwell Point.  Ate huge amount of fish.  Watched pelicans.

Pam: Went to Gerbera Farm.  Will devote her time to them in future.  Felt sorry for the Dorplar Sheep.

Elizabeth: Lost her cheque book - found non-posted birthday card in a drawer.  Went to see Great-grand-daughter, Lucy, ust had tonsils out.

Jo: Did nothing.

David: Went to Sydney - grand-daughter and grandson, baby-sitting.  Road travel wonderful.

Words of the Day

Cath:      asperity - terse style

Jo:         mural-resembling a wall

Helene:    char - cleaning lady, tea for British, to burn

Wendy:    paraphenalia - personal belongings or bits of equipment

Pam:       lacuna - blank space, small hole in bone, etc.

Elizabeth: isthmus - a narrow neck of land - ocean on both sides land

David:     disenchanted - disappointed - to cause disappointment

Geoff:     condone - to accept, to forgive

Writings from 'Word of the Day'

David: Sitting on the balcony - damned charlady interrupted his dreams = she put a spell on him.

Geoff: The budget - Hockey acts like a charlady.  The outlook is bleak, especially for youth.

Jo: Condoning behaviour of the group?  Never.

Elizabeth: Charlady disappoints - looking across at the isthmus.

Helene: Amity - a char - cleaned cousin's house - and a mural - nothing worth anything there though, except Save the Trees PLEASE.

Pam: A rough mural - no good, a bad job.

Wendy: Poem - a mural - a lacunafull of stuff on the wall.

Cath: Joan - doesn't appreciate char's lazy job.

Homework:  "The Gossip Column"

Garry: Stories from secret groups in the Bay and Basin area

Helene: Secrets from See Change
Jo:      A provincial gossiper's silly stuff.

David: Sang his column at first - question and answer style - don't eat chicken with fingers - eat fingers with chicken!  Glenn - girlfriend thinks he's being unfaithful.  Fat woman - should be stapled.  Fat people are lazy people. Sang off.  Uncle Arthur's problem page at end.

Cathy:  Wedding on Saturday - honeymooning in Tunisia.  Open day for students.  Radio, good, easy listening, people, holidays.  Real people.

There is a photograph display at Lady Denman, Long weekend, no entry fee.  More details available at Lady Denman I would think.

Pam showed us a word, 'charrette' a new word for most of us, and it is repeated in our local paper about four times, word has been picked up by Herald.  Confusing the issues?

We did a Write.  Fairy Stories, etc.

Apologies to all for the Write summing-up, there is no info.

Homework: Write about someone who has a disability.