Present: Cathy, David R., Terry, Trevor, Jo, Leonie, Geoff, Wendy.
News:
Leonie had her eye done, not like the first time. Reduces what she can do, except quilt.
Cath: Going through hockey slides. Saw a man from 40 years ago.
David R: Had friends staying - writing - reading. Okay time.
Wendy: Went on a picnic at Culburra.- rained - had one (picnic) in the car at Culburra instead.
Trevor: Went to Sydney. Has carrot soup left over, I think.
Terry: Went to Sydney - old car business - Triumph only - found the roads awful but got lots of parts.
Jo: Said about DNA search, National Geographic, and showed the word 'ululation' - it has stupid words describing it according to the Thesaurus.
Geoff: Found out about his kidney disease, not good news Geoff, we are sorry.
Word of the Day:
deft: dexterous
leery: cautious, wary
firmament: the 'vault of heaven', the skies
sinecure: a position that requires no work but gets paid.
guile: treachery
profligate: very wicked, shamelessly bad
desist: to abstain, to discontinue activity
prosumer: one who both gives and takes (e.g. electricity panels)
Word write:
David: Was warned by his wife that he'll go to hell. A poem.
Wendy: Guile used, was going to be bad all her life.
Trevor: A bloke was offered a job. He turned it down because he was being paid but there was no work. ??
Terry: A poem - what we write about.
Jo: Angels looking for potholes in heaven's road.
Leonie: Politicians with profligate behaviour. Guile of the devil.
Geoff: The State Govt. does everything for themselves, not for all.
Cath: As large as the heavens - that's all everyone wants.
The Homework was: Winter, or anything to do with it.
Leonie: 'One Winter's Day'. The curtains, a symbol of her life now - husband died, all changed. In Tasmania - too cold for her.
Geoff: 'Winter' : A discusson of Winter and it's effect on us. A poem.
Helene: 'The Chicken Dance'. Nothing to do with Winter. It's Fifi again. Lulu perfume, whatever that is, and 7 black chooks. A possum was in the nesting box. A fruit fight, poor poss. Fifi cruelly stole the possum from its warm place!
David R: Shorter days, longer nights - the poem - creature comforts of Winter - warm bread - avoiding Winter around the world would be a good idea.
Wendy: She loves Winter - can wear what she wants - no one knows what she does (I think it is because she is rugged up and unidenitfiable).
Trevor: Sydney as a boy - kero heater etc. Moved to Canberra - wasn't that cold after a while, - went to snow fields, the pub was air-conditioned, so that's all, folks! Suicide season when it's wet in Darwin!
Terry: 'A Street Life' Adrian in Winter. He loves the dreary Winter. He is just 42...and homeless. He is watched by passers-by - a Sallie gives him coffee.
Jo: A Bear in Winter. A female bear didn't get into her cave in time. Got shot.
David R. read Garry's missive - uses last week's Words - Johnny was now looking after his brothers and sisters. Docs tried to take them.
Fifi (bloody woman keeps cropping up! I can't stop her! ed.) here again. LUCKY MOLE invented the blunderbuss ... erk? ... Garry sent us a letter. He is teaching, is busy.
Helene did something else, but all I wrote was: story of words of the day last week. Fifi is a nuisance person who owns a dog.
Make of this whatever you think suits you.
A discussion ensued about Christmas in July. Postman's Tavern seems to be the go. Wendy sussing it out.
We discussed the word 'aborigine', then 'labor', all interesting, other words in general, which is a good exercise, one unplanned but always with a bunch of writers, informative and worthwhile.
David read of a person's xenophobia, etc. a Poem. Someone suggested sending the Libs back, I don't know where to, take your pick, and blaming it on Labor (a word we discussed).
David still poeming, 'Dark Glasses' - seeing within - the covered truth. Politics etc. No care any longer for 'bent' (? what?)
Magic magic moments - old age - oh where did it go? (old age doesn't go, David, you die of it! Dear me!).
Anyway, he has avoided old age, he has decided to be a dolphin instead.
Very wise.
A Quik-Rite: 'The Magnet'
Geoff: A pair of workers on the production line. Eva and Jo got together (no, not me).
Cath: Machines quiet. Why?
David R: Deaf, dangerous, delicious - the magnet of the factory - a dangerous chick. Magnets in her pants. (no, not rude, it is as opposed to 'ants' in them!) ya da da de da da!
Wendy: Attracted to a magnetic field.
Terry: A friend, a Pole, Maxwell. His force is attractive. A play on words to do with magnetism...in an MG Magnette factory.
Jo: Screw her, magnets. (yes, this one is rude, I'm sick of being 'Mrs. Nice Guy!)
Leonie: Two boys trying to get in.
Trevor: (had to leave early)
More talk re innovative use of a bus system running over the existing traffic beneath, in China, in order to maximise available space for traffic.
Jo said did anyone see about the hospital ship that goes around the world doing ops on board and having many beds to recuperate - vision is for poorer people who can't reach docs or med. help. Amazing show.
Then, Venice, why was it built in the first place?
Well, we had a good try at talking about stuff we don't usually talk about and it was good, Trevor is kindly going to read Jo's story, 'The Piano Bird'.
Homework: 'Casting a Spell' or just 'A Spell'.
