Present – Terry, Jo, Cath, Vala, Helene, Wendy, Mandy
Brags – Helene cooked fennel with onion, sultanas, pine nuts, macaroni and cheese - very yummy but no samples to prove it
Wendy – went to the worst play in Nowra last week
Mandy - currently reading on The Turning by Tim Winton
Terry – made comment to a group about alcohol consumed by politicians in the workplace - a worthy initiative
Cath – has tulips up deep pink, red, yellow etc
Word of the day
Cath – maelstrom – great whirlpool or confused state
Jo – spoor – footprints, trail of the wild animal
Terry – abominate – extreme hate loathing. Sotto voce – soft voice
Mandy – brio – vigour - origin Italian
Wendy –obnubilate – to cloud over
Helene – forensic – having to do with courts of law or legal proceedings
Jo bought a cast of a paw print collected by her nephew in the bush. Mandy told an "ah" story about one of her dogs saving the other.
Homework readings
Jo – A universal garden – death on a new planet
Cath – A look into the future – music and robots
Vala – Headlines from the future
Helene – Science fiction it is no laugh
Wendy – Space aged family
Mandy – Is kicking her scrabble addiction so didn’t do her homework
Terry – Tiger – the tiger worm pit next door
Exercise
We played a game of Trivial pursuit in a maelstrom. Wendy, Helene and Vala were the winners by one throw of the dice. Mandy and team played with brio but felt obnubilated and requested a forensic investigation of the spoors.
Homework - The prickles on his neck told him he was …………..
