Meeting 25th march 2015

RECORD OF MEETING,  25 March 2015

Present

Wendy, Jo, Terry, Geoff, Pauline, Leonie, Cath, Diane, Elizabeth

WORDS OF THE DAY

Emasculate = disempower, weaken, castrate

Quod = prison

Interment = burial esp. with ceremony

Scratch = scrape or rub at | from start/zero | to desired level |erase | withdraw (race)

Disposition = mood, temperament, set in order

Peccadillo = trivial misdeed

Toggery = clothes

Bifurcate = divide (into two)

Gosling = young goose

Stories from Word of the Day

(many and various – some sad or unpleasant)

Reading of homework

Diane - revenge through portraiture

Pauline – planned infidelity trumped

Jo – stimulated by army life … until footless and invalidated out

Terry – healed from despair by (newly met) small boy’s innocence

Cath – confession, trying to seek remedy

Leonie – reflection; between melancholy & motivation

next lunch proposed:     12 noon on Tues 21 April          venue: Pelican Café

(Wendy to check & confirm)

HOMEWORK (for 1^st April)

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