'FOOLING AROUND'

Fooling around

Two days until April and there’s no fool like an old fool! Craig , our Toastmaster for today's meeting made the coming April Fool's day his theme and Linda, the Grammarian and Mike the Table Topics Master picked up on the theme. I ask why not theme Eric Clapton or Celine Dionne who both had their birthdays today?

Enuff grumbling. Splendid programme however. Linda's word of the day was “flummoxed”. First speaker Russell  was introduced by Darryl and gave us a Status Report on “Water Management in Hawkes Bay”. And he confirmed our suspicious that all is not well (haha) behind our taps. Darryl's evaluation was comprehensive and perceptive with a number of good recommendations, eg. don’t rely so much on the script.

Anna’s education presentation was a treat. It was about tailoring your speech for the audience. She used Carol to demonstrate audience analysis is about putting yourself in their shoes. This speech means Anna is now an Advanced Communicator Silver. No wonder the speech shined!

Mike based Table Topics on fantasy. He provided the first sentence of some fairytale fantasy and participants were asked to put themselves in the story. Kerry flew in a forest, Laurel had a King crying and Jen somehow got trolls and birthing in the same scene. Beam me up Scotty! Carol gave a useful evaluation and revealed that April 1st is her birthday. But she didn’t say what number.

Laurel came up with the goods (was I nagging?) and gave us a useful guide to Impromptu Structures.

In the wrap up Linda told us how eloquent we are and Helen tick ticked off our timing. David gave a truncated General Evalauation, time was agin him!

Best Speaker, Anna

Best Evaluator Carol

Best Table Topics, Jen