Record of meeting 4 September 2019

The writers

Helene, Jo, Trevor, Fran, Pauline, Pat, Cath


The words of the day

Irk – to annoy

Scintillating – sparkling

Garbled – mix up or confuse

Firth – arm of the sea or estuary

Sinuous – many curves and turns

Calliope – beautifully voiced goddess

Jubilation – feeling of great happiness and triumph


Writing from words of the day

The group closed, Escape from the storm, The county fair, Performance cancelled, I saw the estuary, One of those days and Most days.


Exercise – Babushka dolls

The writers were inspired by the dolls and wrote about - Should have chosen her lover more carefully, In the box, What is that, Just take the doll, An excuse, At the airport and Riding the horse.

Exercise – the person in the sunglasses

The writers embraced the concept of sunglasses and wrote about - Hard to recognise, Above Collingwood beach, The greatest invention, John Lennon’s sunglasses, Not the local hospital, Rainbow sunglasses and Dark thoughts.


Homework

Not compulsory

August 2019 update

Attendance numbers have dropped this year - resulting in fewer meetings being held.

As a result of the drop in numbers a few members have decided that from Wednesday 4 September 2019, meetings will be held monthly on the first Wednesday of the month.

Come to the Function room in the Vincentia Golf Club from 1 to 4 pm and bring a pen and paper or your electronic devise for writing.

Lunch Wednesday 3 July 2019

The following writers met over lunch

Terry, Pat, Pauline, Jenny, Helene, Trevor

No meeting held 19 June 2019

Pat was the only writer who attended on 19 June 2019

No meeting held 12 June 2019

Helene was the only person who attended the Golf Club on 12 June 2019

Record of meeting 5 June 2019

Humming bird collecting nectar

Writers

Terry, Pat, Helene, Trevor

Words of the day

Circumspect – careful not to take risks

Converse – turn around or put upside down

Cynosure – attracts attention by brilliance

Corrigendum – error to be corrected in print

Amalgamate – to unite in or as if in a mixture of elements

Nectar – a sweet liquid produced by flowers collected by bees

Caper – preserved flower bud or skip or dance about in a lively way


Writing from words of the day

The writers captured the words of the day and capered around as they wrote - I didn’t want to, My Dentist is not my mate, Poor little bee and In my garden.

Reading of homework


Three writers read out homework on the topics - My burnt dinner, The smell of perfume and A meal I cooked.

Exercise – Affects of The anti-anger virus 

The writers wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of the anti-anger virus - Everyone was nice, Chaos on a cruise ship, The ho-ho virus and Needing a snack.

Homework

Target practice

Record of meeting 29 May 2019

Members in attendance


PAT, JENNY and PAULINE

The meeting ended early after beginning with some discussions about reasons for absences while we waited to see in anyone else turned up.


Words of the day


BUCOLIC - charming, picturesque, pertaining to country-side

TERCEL   2 meanings - fabric /Hawke

VULPICIDE - fox killing in an unsportsmanlike way

MEPHISTOPHELIAN   full of evil cunning,   one of the seven devils of medical demonology in Goethe’s Faust


Holidays and writing


PAT shared about her recent holiday; 23 days in China in an area of 10million people, polite but not much English. Amazing ancient buildings and broken pottery. 1,000 photos including toilets and lamp posts.


There was also writing about “Charles and gunfire and loving foxes”.


Jenny had written on a previous homework topic “We left early”.  It was very adventurous and action filled.


Homework for 5 June 2019



“I woke to the smell of smoke”