Meeting 979 "Pets"

The theme of the meeting was chosen by Paul's cat, when she walked across his keyboard. It proved to be an excellent theme for a Toastmasters meeting.

We were pleased to welcome first time visitors Kit, Blake and Chris as well as Nikki who had been to a previous meeting and has decided to become a member.

Toastmaster Paul kept us entertained and informed about pets. (Did you know, there are more  pets than people in the world?)

Paul

Wordmaster Marlene chose the word PETrichor, which is the name given to the pleasant smell of rain after a dry spell.

Round Robin master invited us tell tell about an unusual pet we have had.

There were three prepared speeches.

Kirsty's speech was about an important change she had made in her life.

Kirsty

Darryl spoke about the advice given to him in his first job, and how he has applied it to his life.

Darryl

Karen's speech, "To Craft or not to Craft" was about crafting a speech.

Karen

Speech Evaluators were Leanne, Liz and Christiane.

Leann

Li

Christiane

John T's raffle was popular. It was a bag of goodies, including a "Whodunnit" book, a bottle of lager, and various yummy things. It was won by Paul.

John T

John was also Time Keeper.

The business session  was effeciently chaired by Jonathon. The main business discussed was our Break Up dinner on the 13th December.

Jonathon and Paul
(messy store room in background.)

Table topics master Tim called on Annette T, Trish, Carmy, Christiane, Marlene, Liz, John T, and Leanne.

Topics master Tim

Annette - pet's birthday party

Trish - ugliest pet

Carmy - introduced to friend's pet snake

Christiane - favourite animal

Liz - encounter with barking dog

John T - kitten up tree

Leanne - cat hair on new clothes

Grammarian Steve commented on good word usage, alliteration and repetition.

Stev 

Annette W

Annette W had some good tips in her General Evaluation.

Voting for the evenings awards was very close, with three people tying for Table Topics.

The winners were Kirsty (Personal Best,) Paul (Best Contribution,) Christiane, John and Liz (Best Table Topic,) Liz (Best Evaluation,) and Darryl (Best Speech.

Award winners 8th Nov 2016

Next meeting will be n the 22nd November. You will need to pay then if you are coming to our Christmas Break Up Dinner on the 13th December.