Tuesday 19th November
Eleven members attended the meeting and there were apologies from Ted, Donnie, John H, Jackie.
Confirmation was received that our last meeting at Bargarran Community Centre, prior to moving to the Sports Centre in the New Year will be on Tuesday 10th December which will be our Christmas Party. Please note that this is to begin at 1.00pm and will continue until 3.00 pm - a half hour earlier than normal
Members upgraded their contact and safeguarding information and Morag gave a short reminder of the protocols surrounding competition entries. Anyone wishing to see a performance by Jenny Lindsay, who recently delivered our poetry workshop, was advised to go to YouTube and look for “Woman World”. Irene gave an appreciation of her walking holiday in Spain whilst Jeannie told us of HER time in Spain spent at a writers’ retreat.
Topic of the day was “A letter to an agony aunt:, a paired writing exercise where one would act as the writer whilst the other would act as the agony aunt providing a solution to the writer’s problem. Two revolutions of the table enabled the roles to be reversed and the problems encountered were finding a lost ferret, a problem cat, a troublesome neighbour, lottery sharing with family and teenage angst. On the anti-clockwise rotation we encountered constant worrying, hasty marriages, a shy speech giver, a toucan with Tourette’s, marriage to a chef , loud sneezing, a dependency on crisps, a secretive vegetarian and a the cries of a dumped P2 pupil.
Great fun was had by all and we look forward to Russel McLean’s Crime-writing workshop this coming Tuesday - 26th
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