Present: David C, Terry, Cathy, Jo, David R, Mandy, Wendy, Helene.
News: David C is having a slow combustion heater installed soon. Helene went to five gym sessions already this week. Wendy avoided the rain and drove to Cootamundra and visited the Temora air museum. Mandy spent time helping a friend with a children’s book manuscript and has reduced her commitments to allow herself more time to write. David R went to see the Kings Speech at the Huskie pictures and had lunch at the Catalina Club in Batemans Bay. David R took the opportunity to read a seductive cat poem and a serious poem. Jo told us our blood pressure is higher in the winter. Cath has almost finished sanding her front door step to stop the door sticking – everyone was curious to hear what she will do next. Terry has been reunited with his son.
The group discussed establishing a new blog which allows for more interaction and feedback between members - Terry to investigate and report back.
Word of the day
David C – a diacritical mark - two dots placed over vowels to indicate pronunciation. Helene – filibuster – A parliamentary procedure for delaying debate or a military invasion of a foreign country. Wendy – pangram – a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet. David R – anathema – a noun something vehemently disliked. Cath – shanks pony – one owns legs. Terry – brou-ha-ha – a confused uproar or hullabaloo.
Homework readings – using words of the day from last week
David C – Siamese twins. Helene – the para linguist. Wendy – What’s for tea? Mandy – A strange feeling. David R – Caprice. Jo – digging his own grave. Cathy – words. Terry – Bugger.
Exercise
We used the words hypocrite, biscuit tin, city, telephone to create a story. Some funny and some weird stories emerged. Jo wrote about fast limping. Cath entertained us with a weekend away. Terry about a night time telephone call involving blood stains. David C wrote a poem about a wrong number. Helene wrote about a buried watch. Wendy wrote a short poem about not being alright. Mandy wrote about a pompous boss stuck in the bath. David R concocted a poem about Lady Gar Gar, animals and meat.
Homework – What would you give up for lent? This does not have to be a religious work – use your imagination.
24 March 2011
16 March 2011
Record of meeting 16 March 2011
Present: Mandy, Terri Nolan, Jo, Cath, Wendy, Terry M, Vala, David C, Helene and welcome to Kelly.
News: Wendy had cortisone injection and waiting for improvement in her shoulder, Cath has had a clean up and donated goods to charity, David C’s daughter completed the Huskisson Tri-athalon with a PB, Terri’s daughter was accepted into the NSW police force. Mandy is so fit she could push her husband up and done the hill to the pool, Helene saved her grandson at the beach on Sunday. Kelly is happy to be at the meeting.
Word of the day
Terry - Dyad – a couple, tropes – a figure of speech eg a cold heart. Wendy - Discombobulate – to throw into a state of confusion. Cathy – foetid – smelly. David C – caprice – a whim. Vala - sobriquet – an affectionate or humorous nick name. Jo – transit passage of a body and transitory continuing for a short time. Terri – avuncular – uncle like. Mandy – antecedent and precedent - happens before the event. Helene – passion. Kelly – para linguistic – communicate without language, the study of vocal (and sometimes non-vocal) signals beyond the basic verbal message or speech.
Homework readings
Terry – Revenge. Wendy – Me and dad. Cathy – Amanda. David C – Love is. Vala – Santa’s lap. Jo – Lap dancer. Mandy – A new life. Helene – A Christell clear view. Kelly – A fantasy.
Exercise
Scrambled musical instrument names – challenging and fun exercise.
Quick write
The worst teacher I ever met covered darning needles and the sewing teacher, lollies at school, school raps, the face slap, the dishonest Science teacher and creative cheekiness, physical voice, Mr Mack, killing passion, Mr Pin Head.
Homework
Use one or more words of the day (above) to write your poem or short story.
News: Wendy had cortisone injection and waiting for improvement in her shoulder, Cath has had a clean up and donated goods to charity, David C’s daughter completed the Huskisson Tri-athalon with a PB, Terri’s daughter was accepted into the NSW police force. Mandy is so fit she could push her husband up and done the hill to the pool, Helene saved her grandson at the beach on Sunday. Kelly is happy to be at the meeting.
Word of the day
Terry - Dyad – a couple, tropes – a figure of speech eg a cold heart. Wendy - Discombobulate – to throw into a state of confusion. Cathy – foetid – smelly. David C – caprice – a whim. Vala - sobriquet – an affectionate or humorous nick name. Jo – transit passage of a body and transitory continuing for a short time. Terri – avuncular – uncle like. Mandy – antecedent and precedent - happens before the event. Helene – passion. Kelly – para linguistic – communicate without language, the study of vocal (and sometimes non-vocal) signals beyond the basic verbal message or speech.
Homework readings
Terry – Revenge. Wendy – Me and dad. Cathy – Amanda. David C – Love is. Vala – Santa’s lap. Jo – Lap dancer. Mandy – A new life. Helene – A Christell clear view. Kelly – A fantasy.
Exercise
Scrambled musical instrument names – challenging and fun exercise.
Quick write
The worst teacher I ever met covered darning needles and the sewing teacher, lollies at school, school raps, the face slap, the dishonest Science teacher and creative cheekiness, physical voice, Mr Mack, killing passion, Mr Pin Head.
Homework
Use one or more words of the day (above) to write your poem or short story.
09 March 2011
Meeting notes for March 9th 2011.
Present. Terry Mac. Trish Rock. Geoff Bolton. Cathy Rose. Wendy Williams. Mandy Byrne. Dave Cargill . Dave Rudder Jo Ball. Helene Gaul. Eva Brown.
Brags of the Week.
David R. Got the all clear on his skin cancers so can now go swimming again. He read out a poem to celebrate Eva's Birthday. Well done.
David Cargill. One of his daughters is running in the local Triathlon on Sunday and naturally he is very proud of her. He also warned us about restoring on the computer. He managed to wipe everything off his machine.
Jo didn't have a brag.
Terry Mac. His skin biopsy was clear not cancerous. Also the on going Sager of his wife's meeting her real family after being adopted out as a baby.
Trish. Pushed a Garage Sale that the Lions are running in April. She hopes to show us a copy of a book she has contributed to. She also brought in tips on how to get published, all very daunting.
Eva .Bragged about her lovely poem written by David.
Cath. Couldn't think of anything.
Geff. Had an article printed about a tribute to a friend who died. Also something in the Australian Financial Review.
Helene. Got stopped in Canberra
Wendy. Went to see the Kings Speech and enjoyed it. She also went to the Mini Rally at Goulbourn and enjoyed it.
Mandy She got a discount on her new A/C so was pleased.
Word of the Day.
David. Tantamount. Equivalent to Equal to or as good as. Italian origin.
David C. Internuncio someone who is acting between two parties a go between, or a messenger usually sent by the Pope to governments..
Jo. Soupcon. Meaning a little to taste something a little bit or small quantity.
Bathos. It can mean insincere pathos. Or the depth of something.
Terry. Kilometre and Zoology how often it is mispronounced. Portentous =ominous..
Trish. Malapropism to mispronounce words often hilarious.
Eva is wordless today.
Cathy. Patronize to be a regular customer or to be treated in a condescending way.
Geff. Magniloquent Great size or mass High sounding language pompous in style.
Helene. Recuperate. To recover, it is the way it is pronounced usually the u is a when speaking the word.
Wendy. Chicanery. Deception by trickery or sophistry. Jewellery a word
often mispronounced.
Mandy Wheeking. The noise a dog makes when he is excited, hunting dogs often Wheek when waiting to gather the shoot. Not found in a dictionary so presumed to be a colloquial word.
Homework.
David Cargill Lost all his stuff off the computer but wanted feedback on a few poems he had on paper. Who Would a Farmer be. A good poem which he is entering in the Ipswich Competition. The Larrikin another poem which was very good..
Jo. We sincerely hope we can make your dreams come true. A story about a woman who inherited a lot of shrunken heads.Very different approach to an inheritance story.
Terry. Easy Come Easy Go. A poem A bush poem well done.
Cath. Knock Knock. A short story.
Geff. Has a book he is writing and read us the first three pages. His aim is to finish the first draft by Sept.
Helene Cheap Wine. A short Story.
Wendy. Money, Money, Money. A funny poem in her usual style.
Mandy. Wrote a different story called Working Class. A Memoir from her own life.
David R. A poem Where there is a Will there is a Relo. Funny and wet written poem.
Exercise. Affect/Effect Spelling Exercise.
When to use them. Affect is a verb and effect a noun that helped with knowing where to put them.
Homework He made her sit on his lap. Write a poem or short story about it.
02 March 2011
Blog for 2nd March 11
Attending
Terry Knowlen. Trish Rock. (New member) Cath Rose. Jo Ball. David Rudder. Mandy Byrne Wendy Williams. Eva Brown.
Brags. \Mandy is doing a final proof reading to her romance story with a view to sending it off. Fingers crossed.
Wendy is off to a Mini Expo with her car club.
Trish. Went to a conference and has some interesting notes on how to send your publishers and will bring it next week. She is also involved in writing a story for a book of inspiration with her work and how to motivate herself. She has been a very busy lady.
Eva nothing much happening she is doing a certificate on Aged Care to break into that field of work.
Terry our new member, nothing happening except she has taken the great step of joining our group to stimulate herself. Welcome to the Mad House Terry.
Cathy. Her word of the day supplied by Wendy last week helped her be the clever one in her church group. We all thought it would never be used. To prove us wrong she found she was the only one who knew the meaning of the word.
Jo. She is training her house spider to come back when she takes him outside, he comes back. Trust Jo to have an unusual pet.
Dave. Read out a poem done in a different formate to his usual style. Senses. thought provoking and well written.
Daves Poem.
Senses.
To see, to smell, to touch and hear,
Are Gifts we take for granted,
The loss of any sense we fear,
Would leave us disenchanted
The sense of taste of food we eat,
Excites, the appetite, and palate,
The nectar of a food that's Sweet,
Adds colour life's palette.
The sense of touch can be erotic,
And send shivers down the spine,
Winging us to places quite exotic,
Sensual thoughts, smooth and divine.
The sense of sight lights up the world,
And eliminates the dark.
Our eyes open like a flat unfurled,
A fire, from a tiny spark.
The sense of hearing reveals the sounds,
From whisper to a roar,
Of all the noise from our surrounds,
Through our ears, come to the fore.
Our senses are great gifts we're given,
To light up our lives with joy,
And none of us should be forgiven,
If we can, we don't deploy.
Word of the Day.
Jo. Stultify. To render foolish. Snivel. To show emotion. Jo also gave us the word Ululation and have no idea what it means.
Cath. Fecund. Fertile fruitful. Impregnate.
Eva. Vilification. Character assignation. Aspersion which is verabal dispay of anger or vilification. To slander.
Wendy. Pootle. To wander or ramble down the road. Old English word still used in the midlands.
Lambaste. To thrash or beat or scold another in anger.
Dave. Cacophony a harsh discord mixture of sounds. A din a racket.
Homework. The story of Cinderella written from the Step Mothers point of view.
Mandy. Did it and called it From her point of view.
Wendy. Did a poem called Bottoms. Very funny as usual.
Eva. Lady Tremain. A short story. Based on Cinderella.
Cath. Agatha's Comeuppance. Short Story about the subject.
Jo. The trouble with Cinderella was….Short stoy on the theme Cinderella..
Dave The story in Prose about Cinderella.
Break for Afternoon Tea.
Exercise of the Day.
We used the word of the day and made up a short poem or story using the words we brought in for the meeting. Several good poems and short pieces, we are a clever lot.
Quick write using the letter P for every word. Good laugh.
Homework. A man came and knocked on the door, he said you are a beneficiary of a will. Write a short story about it.
Meeting ended at 4pm.
Attending
Terry Knowlen. Trish Rock. (New member) Cath Rose. Jo Ball. David Rudder. Mandy Byrne Wendy Williams. Eva Brown.
Brags. \Mandy is doing a final proof reading to her romance story with a view to sending it off. Fingers crossed.
Wendy is off to a Mini Expo with her car club.
Trish. Went to a conference and has some interesting notes on how to send your publishers and will bring it next week. She is also involved in writing a story for a book of inspiration with her work and how to motivate herself. She has been a very busy lady.
Eva nothing much happening she is doing a certificate on Aged Care to break into that field of work.
Terry our new member, nothing happening except she has taken the great step of joining our group to stimulate herself. Welcome to the Mad House Terry.
Cathy. Her word of the day supplied by Wendy last week helped her be the clever one in her church group. We all thought it would never be used. To prove us wrong she found she was the only one who knew the meaning of the word.
Jo. She is training her house spider to come back when she takes him outside, he comes back. Trust Jo to have an unusual pet.
Dave. Read out a poem done in a different formate to his usual style. Senses. thought provoking and well written.
Daves Poem.
Senses.
To see, to smell, to touch and hear,
Are Gifts we take for granted,
The loss of any sense we fear,
Would leave us disenchanted
The sense of taste of food we eat,
Excites, the appetite, and palate,
The nectar of a food that's Sweet,
Adds colour life's palette.
The sense of touch can be erotic,
And send shivers down the spine,
Winging us to places quite exotic,
Sensual thoughts, smooth and divine.
The sense of sight lights up the world,
And eliminates the dark.
Our eyes open like a flat unfurled,
A fire, from a tiny spark.
The sense of hearing reveals the sounds,
From whisper to a roar,
Of all the noise from our surrounds,
Through our ears, come to the fore.
Our senses are great gifts we're given,
To light up our lives with joy,
And none of us should be forgiven,
If we can, we don't deploy.
Word of the Day.
Jo. Stultify. To render foolish. Snivel. To show emotion. Jo also gave us the word Ululation and have no idea what it means.
Cath. Fecund. Fertile fruitful. Impregnate.
Eva. Vilification. Character assignation. Aspersion which is verabal dispay of anger or vilification. To slander.
Wendy. Pootle. To wander or ramble down the road. Old English word still used in the midlands.
Lambaste. To thrash or beat or scold another in anger.
Dave. Cacophony a harsh discord mixture of sounds. A din a racket.
Homework. The story of Cinderella written from the Step Mothers point of view.
Mandy. Did it and called it From her point of view.
Wendy. Did a poem called Bottoms. Very funny as usual.
Eva. Lady Tremain. A short story. Based on Cinderella.
Cath. Agatha's Comeuppance. Short Story about the subject.
Jo. The trouble with Cinderella was….Short stoy on the theme Cinderella..
Dave The story in Prose about Cinderella.
Break for Afternoon Tea.
Exercise of the Day.
We used the word of the day and made up a short poem or story using the words we brought in for the meeting. Several good poems and short pieces, we are a clever lot.
Quick write using the letter P for every word. Good laugh.
Homework. A man came and knocked on the door, he said you are a beneficiary of a will. Write a short story about it.
Meeting ended at 4pm.
23 February 2011
Feb 23rd Feb 11
Feb 23rd Feb 11
Attending Jo Ball. Geoff Boulton. Terry McClaffetty. Dave Rudder. Wendy Williams. Cath Rose. Mandy Bynre. Dave Cargill .
Brag of the Week.
Geoff. Had a letter printed in the newspaper re: the closure of Bookstores. What will happen to book shops? times are a changing.
Terry. His wife who is adopted is going to met her half brothers for the first time soon.
Very excited about finding family.
Mandy Zeek her dog fell off a cliff chasing rabbits and survived without injuries.
Jo had on going problems getting an appointment for an edoscopy they keep putting her back.
Word of the Day.
Geoff Picaresque . A story about adventures of a hero fictional. Also can mean roaming around.
Terry. Risible. Comic or funny laughable.
Dave. Inexorable. Impossible to stop or prevent. Nothing could be done to stop something happening.
Wendy. Rhetoric. The art of speaking or writing effectible
Cath. Reconcile. Restore friendship after a quarrel You can bring things to balance when you reconcile.To induce someone to accept a matter they are against.
Antediluvian. Of time before Noah's ark. Completely out of Date.
Dave C. Liquefaction What often happens when an earth quake happens mixing water and dirty and forces it to the surface. To meld.
Jo. Hippocampus. A part of the brian also the name of several small fishes as it looks like a horse.
Terry talked about the phase Dead as a door nail. Nothing can be deader than a door nail for some reason.
He also spoke of Blackmail look it up on the World wide Web very interesting.
When you use ellipses the three dots are often refused by editors preferring a dash.
It can also be an oval shape.
Homework.
Geoff. Restraint. A short story on the theme of the homework Macabre or Murder..
He read only part of a short story we all are waiting for the next instalment. Well done Geoff.
Terry did not do his homework. Well!!!
David Rudder. More Macabre Moments. Done in poetry form. Very good and funny.
Wendy. Completely her own style. I am Scared. Very well done as usual.
Cath. Caught. A fishing trip that deals in drugs.
Mandy wrote the beginning of a murder story about a limbless corpse.
Jo. She came to Him. A murder story.
Jo also wrote a poem. To be a Fish out of Water. A funny poem about a fish.
Exercise. Terry presented several different hooks in short stories. How important it is to hook your reader in the first paragraph.
The exercise was to do with Comma's. How to use them and where to put them we all enjoyed knowing where we should have put the comma.
Homework. Write a story from Cinderella's Step mothers point of view.
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16 February 2011
Record of meeting 16 February 2011
Present: Jo, Terry, Helene, Mandy, Wendy, Eva, David R, David C and Cath.
News: Terry failed his audition for Letters and numbers. Helene went to Dales book launch. Mandy has two and a half dogs at present and lost a kilo. Wendy went to the Rugby Union and saw a portable toilet blow over. Eva has enrolled in a Certificate 3 in Aged Care. Cath cleaned out a spare room and made it into a music room for Rudd her grandson. David R has lost 20 kilos in the last year, a penguin swam with him this week and he has two male whip birds in his back garden. David C has been looking for a cheap printer and found a new one for $50.
Words -Terry – sardonic - bitterly contemptuous, quarantine – from Italian quaranta forty. Helene – skewiff - a Northern Irish word meaning crooked, out of line, or not straight. Wendy – borboygmus – a stomach rumble. Eva – machinations - lay or devise plots. Cath – iterate – to repeat. David R - pell-mell – confused rush or confused manner. David C – scot-free excused from payment, without having to pay. Jo – lour – gloomy scowling and threatening words. Glabrous – adj smooth free from hair.
Competitions - Jo bought info about a poetry competition in Ipswich. Terry has sent an email out containing the details.
Homework readings
Wendy - an ode to cheese. Cath – let the moment pass her by. David R – momentous moments. David C – more of Charlie the police officer. Jo – A moment in time. Terry - the silver ghost. Helene – Live in the moment. Mandy – A moment in time.
Exercise – we had lots of fun and laughter playing Celebrity heads
Quick write – a hook for a macabre story – we wrote about libraries, detectives, fishing, scary nights and bodies with missing parts.
Homework due 23 February 2011 – finish the macabre story you started from the quick write or write a macabre story including a hook in the first paragraph.
News: Terry failed his audition for Letters and numbers. Helene went to Dales book launch. Mandy has two and a half dogs at present and lost a kilo. Wendy went to the Rugby Union and saw a portable toilet blow over. Eva has enrolled in a Certificate 3 in Aged Care. Cath cleaned out a spare room and made it into a music room for Rudd her grandson. David R has lost 20 kilos in the last year, a penguin swam with him this week and he has two male whip birds in his back garden. David C has been looking for a cheap printer and found a new one for $50.
Words -Terry – sardonic - bitterly contemptuous, quarantine – from Italian quaranta forty. Helene – skewiff - a Northern Irish word meaning crooked, out of line, or not straight. Wendy – borboygmus – a stomach rumble. Eva – machinations - lay or devise plots. Cath – iterate – to repeat. David R - pell-mell – confused rush or confused manner. David C – scot-free excused from payment, without having to pay. Jo – lour – gloomy scowling and threatening words. Glabrous – adj smooth free from hair.
Competitions - Jo bought info about a poetry competition in Ipswich. Terry has sent an email out containing the details.
Homework readings
Wendy - an ode to cheese. Cath – let the moment pass her by. David R – momentous moments. David C – more of Charlie the police officer. Jo – A moment in time. Terry - the silver ghost. Helene – Live in the moment. Mandy – A moment in time.
Exercise – we had lots of fun and laughter playing Celebrity heads
Quick write – a hook for a macabre story – we wrote about libraries, detectives, fishing, scary nights and bodies with missing parts.
Homework due 23 February 2011 – finish the macabre story you started from the quick write or write a macabre story including a hook in the first paragraph.
09 February 2011
Attending. Vala Hanns. Robyn Kellner. Trish Rock Geoff Bolton . Jo Ball. Dave Cargill . Mandy Byrne. Terry McLafferty .Cathy Rose.
Brags from the Group.
Dave is taking his poems written by Banjo Patterson found in a deceased estate to Canberra
Terry. Going to Sydney
Trish. Became Assertive and feels good about it.
Geoff. Pointed out that a journalist used the wrong queue instead of cue, it stood out so much he had to write in about it.
Mandy. Decided to be assertive with some problems and felt better for putting it out for all to talk about.
Cathy Her ride on mower is now working.
Jo put forward some competitions for us to enter.
Word of the Day.
Dave. Recalcitrant someone who is very stubborn.
Terry. Extirpate. To remove or completely destroy.
Robyn. Trichinosis. A disease from worms found in meat Also a Pricker one who pricks.
Cath. Paucity. A smallness of number .
Geoff. Epistemology. Study of learning or books. Philosophy of knowledge.
Vala. Prevaricate Evade the truth. To Lie to speak untruths.
Tricia. Prestidigitation. Slight of hand or conjuring. Juggle things.
Homework. The chemist nervously said. I don't know what he was given but your brothers prescription that he took this morning is still here, and he is not asnwerring his phone.
David. Read another instalment on his story that he is writing. This part he called. For now Detective Charlie Yu. Developing into an interesting novel.
Jo. Where is Andy. An interesting story about murder and mayhem.
Terry. A Poem about some pills.
Trish. The Chemist Said. A short story based on the set theme. Well done and thought provoking.
Cathy. Short Story on the set theme.
Mandy. A short story called The Right Pills.
Vala. A Poem called Chemist Dilemma. Written in prose funny and well done.
Exercise.
Study the Gavel and block and write about it. Describe it, what is it used for why and how it was made and from what. Some very interesting stories about the gavel.
Geoff brought in his published books. Called Twin-Set and Pearls.
Don't forget on Saturday 12th to go to Dale's book launch at Huskisson Community Centre between 4.6pm
Homeword. Live in the Moment.
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