"THE MEETING WENT AHEAD ANYWAY!!"

Our Thursday meeting was ably chaired by Cheryl who found herself in the unenviable situation of a speaker pulling out and having to fill a fairly long spot in the programme, however as we all knew she could/would Cheryl put together an alternative programme at fairly short notice.

 

We  welcomed back Russel and Jane , it was good to see them and we hope you won't be strangers you two !

 

Peter Croskery our Area Director was in attendance , he presented an interesting speech on the High Performance Leadership Book and encouraged us all to have a look at it with (perhaps) a view to trying it ourselves. This is not necessarily a toastmasters based programme, it promotes Leader ship in action .So it may be something you could complete as part of your work or whilst serving as a volunteer in some capacity. If you are interested to know more see Graeme.

 

Thanks Peter.

 

Barbara , read one of her poems, fittingly this one was about her early days as a Toastmaster , with her usual style she managed to convince us all that its not that bad!Comforting to know that someone as accomplished as Barbara, still gets nerves.

 

The rest of the programme fell to our competent Table Topics master who carried the day with his Quotations, it was a great session Mike .If you were not there , try to come , when Daryl tells us all the extended story of why he is Daryl aka Darryl.Its worth a visit to hear it .

 

Linda was table topics evaluator and winner of the best evaluator award.

 

Best Table Topic and Best Speaker went to Daryl aka Darryl.

 

Again thanks to Cheryl for her efforts and to Mike for spinning those table topics out  !

Thanks Jen for this report.