30 January 2013

Record of meeting 30 January 2013


Present

Terry, Garry, Leonie, Jo, Wendy, Trish, Helene, Cath, Geoff and welcome back to Lyn

 
News

Leonie has finished her garden and it survived the rain. Garry’s niece had an accident with her horse. Lyn worked last week at the museum. Geoff saw the movie Life of Pi. Helene has a new sewing machine and sewed some curtain linings. Wendy has gone back to Aqua lite twice a week and has been on two picnics during the week. Cath has been stripping off wall paper. Terry research for his novel has found that dentists in the US are putting micro chips in people’s teeth for tracking. Trish mentioned the case of the teenager missing for two months in the bush. Jo also read about the missing boy. 

 
Words of the day

Inadvertently – not intentioned

Auto-didactic – self taught

Solicit – to seek favour, request

Android – robot, zombie, resembling a human

Stymied – to filibuster, to thwart

Wraith – shadowy, ghostly

Brusque – abrupt, blunt

Skein – flock of geese in flight & yarn wound in a loose coil

Seesaw – to move up and down, vacillate, reciprocating motion

 
Writing from words of the day

Geoff – Tony Abbott

Lyn – a poem about being encouraged to provide a word

Garry – a beautiful morning

Leonie – a comparison

Jo – a king with a skein of words

Trish – in an ally way

Terry – rather be in the creek

Cath – thoughts on the seesaw

Wendy – oh crap

Helene – Byron the robot

 
Reading of homework

Garry – still love you nana

Leonie – does this count as a table

Jo – the old wives club

Trish – my friend Callum

Terry – Chapter two from his novel

Wendy – Lie’s - a brilliant poem
 
Helene - where are the old wives

Geoff – Readers Digest tales

 
Reading

Jo - How to explain oldness

 
Invitation

Isabel Mac Callum invites you to celebrate the publication of “Life is what you make it” an expose of her life to be launched by Joanna Gash MP at the Nowra Library ,Berry Street Nowra, at 11:30 am Monday 25 February 2013. Light refreshments. $10 from each $25 signed book to Anglicare Shoalhaven Community Care

 
Quick write - Life is what you make it

Jo – life as a fish

Trish – the head I have now

Terry – listen to what I say

Cath – tragedy versus challenge

Wendy – the easy life

Helene – life is fun

Geoff – a journey

Lyn – doing what I want

Garry – life in Africa


Homework

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