Present: Pauline, Geoff, Wendy, Cath, Leonie, Jo, Elizabeth, Terry , Diane, David arriving later.
News:
Geoff sent another letter re politics. Always right, Geoff.
Leonie has a new puppy.
Wendy went to Wellington for the weekend. Always on the go.
Cathy: Went to beach, fell over. Vines stopped her body from careening down. No, someone, she was not drunk.
Pauline: Went to her daughter's.
Jo: Got the needle in her shoulder. Not better yet.
Elizabeth: Fell over last week, her hero has avoided her ever since. Then she fell over in Ulladulla. A shopkeeper helped her.
Terry: Home from hospital. Men's business.
Words of the Day.
Jo: materialise - to come to into view or to assume a solid shape.
Terry: reticent - not revealing one's thoughts readily.
Elizabeth: virgin - new, unspoiled, (virginal...an early keyboard instrument)
Geoff: contrite - humble, apologetic.
Leonie: infallible - incapable of error or failure.
Cathy: evocative - reminiscent, invoking memories.
Pauline: Krypton - an inert gas present in the atmosphere.
Diane: ramification - consequence
Writings from WOTD:
Diane: A plane in a storm. Pilots being heroes in the storm, but they were dead heroes.
Elizabeth: A virgin forest gets knocked down. Awful gas is there.
Geoff: School - paying a lot of money for what?
Leonie: Clark Kent is Superman. He is tired of vigorous women after him.
Wendy: Trying to find a virgin: pigs don't fly.
Cathy: Laboratory accident: scientist among them when it exploded.
Pauline: The meanings of 'virgin'. Finds Superman is concerned with reality of Krypton.
Diane: Distraught and very upset.
Terry: Poem. Teamwork. Wants luck, not a political virgin. A strange big-eared man.
Reading of Homework: 'We had to join a queue ...'
Cath: A boy trying to obey his mother. Discovering the beach. Must catch the ferry, mum misses the queue.
Pauline: Three at breakfast. In a queue for an opening. Queue grows, but the Louvre is shut.
Jo: The hunger queue in war-time. People might eat each other.
Terry: A tall young man, a girl, on phones in the queue. The writer gets told to get in line or else. It is at Centrelink!
Di: Told a story of visiting Palace of Versailles. Everyone who was Italian tried to push in. But Di beat them for once as the English were next to go. Last laugh for Di.
David: Abbott again, kissing babies. He put his head in the park stocks. Someone pulled his pants down, painted a big eye on his bum.
Leonie: Described an article: last week's homework. The mystery item was
'rocks'.
There ensued a discussion about the Japanese culture by those members who have been there or, as in Geoff's case, lived there. Very informative.
Later, Terry read out '50 Shades of Grey' by Pam Ayres. A wife who turned her husband's hair grey by stripping in front of him at more than 80 years of age!
There was then a conversation of what is porn or not, depends on your idea of it.
We discussed publishing - what would work, what wouldn't. Self-publishing?
Would each of us be able to put a book together from what we have, smaller stories. Where is the best place to publish this type of book.
Terry to send a link for a site relating to Indie publishing.
Homework: One week after attending the funeral of a close friend, you receive a postcard saying 'I'm not dead!'
