“𝓘 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝓮 𝓉𝒽𝓮 𝓇𝓮𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓉 𝓸𝒻 𝒶𝓃 8-𝓎𝓮𝒶𝓇-𝓸𝓁𝒹 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹”

 Our penultimate meeting before Christmas, with table topics, two prepared speeches and evaluations. We had a few last-minute dropouts due to the football and people pretending they were ill when really they were watching the football. I (Geoff) was the Toastmaster for the evening and was only 10 minutes late – thank you, President Natalie, for filling in for me; you can blame the tractors blocking the road where I live (and not me setting off late).

We also had two guests – Paul and Nissa, with Paul joining us at the end of the meeting. Welcome, Paul.

Both our speakers were Ice Breakers – the first speech given by our newest members. Muhammad gave us his speech “Inspiration for Mastery”, and I can’t believe he hasn’t done this before. Sarah was second, with her speech “Proud to be British” – again, how can this be her first, and it was funny too. Well done both of you.

Karen Lee held our impromptu speaking session – Table Topics – on the topic of ‘-itions’ – words that end in ‘ition’, and had a snazzy ‘pick a door’ board to play along with too. I think the whole room got a chance to speak tonight.

If you’re not a member and what to improve your public speaking, confidence or leadership skills, why not come to our next meeting as a guest for free? It will be our Christmas meeting, which means we aim to have a lot of fun, and there may be nibbles (even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, it doesn’t matter, come and have nibbles and join in the fun).

Role of Honour:

-        Best Table Topic: Susan

-        Best Evaluator: Natalie

-        Best Speaker: Muhammad and Sarah (it was a tie)

-        Ice Breakers: Muhammad and Sarah

See you all on the 21st of December

-        Geoff

The ribbon winners. Left-to-right Sarah, Muhammad, Natalie.