Steve Kennelly always chooses great themes for our Friday morning meetings. We are continuing to operate in hybrid mode, with a few people joining from Zoom and lots of visitors in person.

The theme of this meeting was winter sports. It was very entertaining, we’ve even learned about the 2nd most practice winter sport, called Bandy. If you have never heard of it, we neither.

See more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy

Louise was the Grammarian, her Word of the Day was “Tackle”, quite on point with our theme of the meeting.

Deb Mc Alpine gave us a great speech “Please make me redundant” She convinced us all that she should be made redundant and go sail on the Greek Island.

Stephen McConnarchie gave us a speech on understanding your communication style. His speech title was ” Everyone like me… Right”. Stephen was in performance mode, enthusiastic and energetic. We were introduced to direct Dylan and analytical Annie.

Henry Thomson introduced our third speaker Brett who we found out was originally from Genoa, Alaska.

Brett snow’s speech title was Things come in three”, we learnt about using the 3 different parts of the stage. Speeches must have an opening, a body and a conclusion. The message was to get your message across quickly as we are limited on time on stage and in life.

Our table topic session led by Jacqui Anderson was short but well on the theme.

From a famous ice hockey player, that cannot get hurt with Henry, to your best sports memory with our visitor Dan playing crickets with the team world cup.

Should beach volleyball be moved to the winter sports category? What an entertaining table topic session!

Our evaluators had great sayings while giving great commendations and recommendations. We heard things like Hairy chestnuts, voice news material, lost in a speech in a good way, pretty awesome, who cares, just to name a few.

Our famous toastie award was given to Brett Snow with his speech, things come in three. Described as a great exposure for our guests, delivered with excellent pronunciation and speed.

Looking forward to more meetings like this!