22 April 2015

Record of meeting 22 April 2015


Present

Wendy, Cath Terry, David C, Helene, Geoff, Elizabeth, David C, Leonie, Pauline, Lynn

 
Words of the day

Skewiff = out of place

Gauche = insensitive, awkward, immature

Indiscriminate = making no distinction

Skedaddle = take off

Duende = power of art to deeply move a person, goblin, charm

Kaleidoscope = tube which colours patterns are reflected beautiful form

Circumscribe = to limit or restrict

Brusque = abrupt

Cull = reduce the quantity

Mistrial = trivial

Picador = horseman in a bull fight

 
Stories from words of the day

Geoff - leadership, courage and traffic on the Hume Highway

Elizabeth - out of place

David C - Sobering fiction

Leonie - Made no sense

Pauline - Far from ……

Lynn – Around the gallery

Terry – Expecting many ideas

Cath – The bulls

Wendy – Heading this way

Helene – The washing machine

David R – I picked a door

 
Reading of homework

Terry – The party

Helene – I have it

David R – Silver fish in the morning sun

Elizabeth – Help with a broken mooring

David C – times they are a changing

Leonie – not so fleeting

Lynn – connection with perfection

Garry – the doctor and the cleaner

 
Exercise – describe a hot summer day

Terry talked us through an exercise to paint a word picture of a hot summer day using the five senses - sight, smell, sound, touch & taste.

Terry – Ice cream van, Green Sleeves, hats, sand, salty water, spotter plane

Cath – Dry leaves, creaking of timber, smell of chlorine

Helene – sunscreen, burning metal, shade, cool water, birds, leaves waving

Geoff – cool shade, chilled liquid satisfying thirst

Elizabeth – hot iron gate, late summer storm, cattle in the shade, cool water on my chest, cooling breeze

David C – short shorts, brake released, wind in the hair, salt, hot dog & mustard

Pauline – no air con, roof racks, food cooked on an open fire, only 900 miles to go, packed station wagon

Lynn – wavy lines of heat, perspiration, mirage, taste of summer, surfboard wax, Beach Boys songs, the perfect wave

 
Homework

A most embarrassing moment