Surprises come in all forms, good, bad and of course the opportunities to try something new. Well our meeting on Monday started with a surprise in that we were not in the normal room, but rather downstairs in the ‘Beatles’ (the band, not the insect) area of the Regent Hotel. This did throw our Hybrid meeting organization into a bit of disarray but Stephanie (Zoom master) and Steve, our President and Toastmaster for the day, met the challenge and got things sorted very well.
We had an Ed slot from Andy on the humorous speech contest. It focussed on the importance of contestants creating a good speech first and foremost, with at least a fair part of it based on humor. This was in prep for the next meeting (26th Sept) which is our local humorous and TT speech contest.
It was, as ever, a good meeting, well led by Steve as Toastmaster, with 2 good speeches, an interesting table topic’s session from the ever inventive Val, based on Fables and a good turn out.
The winners were:
Best Evaluator – Lianna (Speech Evaluator for Stephanie)
Best Table topics – Donald
Best Speaker – Stephanie with a short speech entitled Keep it positive.
The Venue:
Next meeting is on the 26th Sept, it is a competition so please come along and support.
The meeting after that, on the 10th October is our open night, so again, please ask anyone who you think might benefit from coming to pop along. More details to follow on this.
Doncaster Speakers 