Attendance: Jo, Wendy, Cathy, Pam, Elizabeth, Helene, Geoff, David C.
News of the Week.
Geoff: entered the Newcastle Poetry Prize. He said that the St. George's Basin Music Club is closing down, one Concert to go, late June, at Community Centre, Meriton Street.
Cathy: Has issues with Telstra. She has a lovely flowered top on, good enough to put in a vase!
Helene: Saw the movie 'The Other Woman'.
Wendy: Went to Greenwell Point. Ate huge amount of fish. Watched pelicans.
Pam: Went to Gerbera Farm. Will devote her time to them in future. Felt sorry for the Dorplar Sheep.
Elizabeth: Lost her cheque book - found non-posted birthday card in a drawer. Went to see Great-grand-daughter, Lucy, ust had tonsils out.
Jo: Did nothing.
David: Went to Sydney - grand-daughter and grandson, baby-sitting. Road travel wonderful.
Words of the Day
Cath: asperity - terse style
Jo: mural-resembling a wall
Helene: char - cleaning lady, tea for British, to burn
Wendy: paraphenalia - personal belongings or bits of equipment
Pam: lacuna - blank space, small hole in bone, etc.
Elizabeth: isthmus - a narrow neck of land - ocean on both sides land
David: disenchanted - disappointed - to cause disappointment
Geoff: condone - to accept, to forgive
Writings from 'Word of the Day'
David: Sitting on the balcony - damned charlady interrupted his dreams = she put a spell on him.
Geoff: The budget - Hockey acts like a charlady. The outlook is bleak, especially for youth.
Jo: Condoning behaviour of the group? Never.
Elizabeth: Charlady disappoints - looking across at the isthmus.
Helene: Amity - a char - cleaned cousin's house - and a mural - nothing worth anything there though, except Save the Trees PLEASE.
Pam: A rough mural - no good, a bad job.
Wendy: Poem - a mural - a lacunafull of stuff on the wall.
Cath: Joan - doesn't appreciate char's lazy job.
Homework: "The Gossip Column"
Garry: Stories from secret groups in the Bay and Basin area
Helene: Secrets from See Change
Jo: A provincial gossiper's silly stuff.
Jo: A provincial gossiper's silly stuff.
David: Sang his column at first - question and answer style - don't eat chicken with fingers - eat fingers with chicken! Glenn - girlfriend thinks he's being unfaithful. Fat woman - should be stapled. Fat people are lazy people. Sang off. Uncle Arthur's problem page at end.
Cathy: Wedding on Saturday - honeymooning in Tunisia. Open day for students. Radio, good, easy listening, people, holidays. Real people.
There is a photograph display at Lady Denman, Long weekend, no entry fee. More details available at Lady Denman I would think.
Pam showed us a word, 'charrette' a new word for most of us, and it is repeated in our local paper about four times, word has been picked up by Herald. Confusing the issues?
We did a Write. Fairy Stories, etc.
Apologies to all for the Write summing-up, there is no info.
Homework: Write about someone who has a disability.
