Cath supervised a
learner driver. Leonie went to see to the Sydney Long exhibition at the
National Gallery Canberra. Garry
called his birth mum who has had a stroke and has a live in carer and his step
mother is still in respite. Helene’s husband has bought a new boat. Wendy going
to Victoria Mediterranean and looked
for a job with MI5. Jo saw a dead wallaby with a shoe on the side of the road.
Jenny watched the Para Olympics and commented on the skills of the presenters.
Evoke
= to summon, to recall
Ineradicable
= cannot be torn out
Backronym
= makes a word forward or backwards
Pinking
= producing a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge
Moral
turpitude = depraved in mind and body
Arbitration
= a legal technique for disputes outside the court system
Sardonic
= cold scornful, bitterly contemptuous
Aggrandise
= to increase power, wealth, prestige etc
Assuage
= to calm, sooth
Prodigy
= wonderful, extraordinary, freak of nature, child of extraordinary talent
Spotting
= keeping the eyes on an object while turning the head when dancing to avoid
giddiness
Writing from the words of
the day
Terry
– the adult prodigy a brilliant poem
Wendy
G – the lawyers and the tutu
Helene
– Chinese food
Trish
– The prodigy in my head
Mary
– the wicker man
Jo
– the genius
Wendy
W – in the pen
Jenny
– the black swan
Cath
– to flog and to golf
Homework
Leonie
– Red riding hood, Cinderella, Snow White and Bo Peep working together –
another hilarious story
Trish
– a dark pub, pale grey eyes in the dark
Terry
- if the Foo shits wear it
Jo
– be sure of your facts
Jenny
– an ode to Vincentia
Helene
– do not fall
Terry
– graffiti
Leonie
read a poem she had written in the 80s – Direction - Choose wisely
We
then did the old Progressive write which produced some strange stories with lots
of laughs.
What
is worse – make a comparison between two options eg fat or thin, with children
or childless, rich or poor, being ambitious or not being ambitious, drought and
floods – make a choice or not - LOL.
