24th October 2022
Our meeting had a theme of “Once More Into The Breach” and was run by Andrew Miller, who gave us an almost Shakespearian introduction to his theme and ran the meeting with his normal style of fun and confidence.
We have had hybrid meetings for some time now, but this meeting in particular showed how effective they are with a number of people joining on line rather than in person.
We had two speeches the first on Leadership styles by Donald entitled “Mo Drama – From Da Bahama” and the second was on “A valuable lesson” by Andy Howarth, on his experience on his recent first aid course.
Andy Howarth beat Donald Sweeting to win the best speaker award: a GREAT RIVALRY was on this day born… LOL.
Following the speeches, Macaulay ran a unique (as least in my experience) Table Topics. He asked 5 willing volunteers to speak on topics based on Halloween and then, asked each of the people to come up again and answer the same question. This gave each person the normal TT experience as well as letting them have some prep time for the 2nd session. It was a well thought out and delivered session.
The winner was Melanie Brookes
And then there was the Evaluations, and as ever, these were informative and fair. The winner of best Evaluator was our Table Topics Evaluator Jean Stewart. Sadly, technology stopped us from getting a picture of Steve giving the ribbon to Jean on line.
It was also the first meeting after our Area Club contest, which Donald (TT) and Steven (Humorous Speech) represented us. It was a tough contest and Steve went through to the Division as 2nd place speakers.
Elizabeth Mead our Area Director presenting the awards to Mr Steven Bisby and Mr Donald Sweeting, both our participants who entered the contests today.
Overall, a great fun night, with laughs and lessons for all
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