POWERtalk Pollokshields.

POWERtalk Pollokshields met on Wednesday 19th September 2018 in Hutchesons’ Grammar School.   This is a new venue and seems to be working well.

The Theme for the evening was “The Good Old Days”

The meeting 

was opened by our President, scilla who welcomed three guests, Ayliffe, Barbara and Doreen.

The Chairman for the evening was Iris, who gave the Inspiration and also handed our the topics.

Various members accepted topics on the theme of the evening including Louise.

This was followed by an interesting education session by Grace.

Following the tea interval, a speech was given by Carole and our President Scilla read us a chapter of her book "For my Grandchildren's Grandchildren".

This was followed by a brief Business meeting to discuss various letters.

The timing was by Roz, the General Evaluation by Liz and Roz gave an entertaining closing thought and Vote of Thanks.

It was the general feeling of the meeting that “The Good Old Days” were not so good as nowadays.

Date of next meeting:   3rd October 2018

in Hutchesons’ Grammar School.

The Theme: A Life on the Ocean Wave - this is to be a Lifeboat Competition.

Rovers Weekend Sunday Activities

The Rovers Training Weekend Sunday activities commenced with a presentation by Iris on “Getting by in Glasgow – A Rough (very rough) Guide”. This was a humorous explanation of some colourful expressions used in Glasgow.

Colin followed this up with a talk on the North Riding dialect including a little quiz in which we had to try to guess the correct definition of a dialect word.

After a coffee break, Linda had us try to pair up word and origin. To make this more fun we all had to wear a paper hat with a slot to take a piece of paper bearing a word or an origin of a word and we had to find a partner with the corresponding word or origin.

Ruth led a workshop on how to say ‘no’ when one wishes to refuse a request to do something.

Margaret brought proceedings to an end with a winding-up and evaluation session.

Rovers Training Weekend

The Rovers Club is meeting in  Carlisle for our annual training weekend.  Members met last night for a meal. Proceedings started this morning with the business meeting.  This was followed by the speech contest  and pictured are (L to R): Yvonne (Speech Contest Chairman), Colin (Contestant). Laurence (Contest Winner with the Tibbie Brown quaich) and Evelyn (Contestant).

Activities continued in the afternoon with a talk by Nancy on her early years on Lewis, a quiz on Etymology led by Diana and a workshop on accents led by Evelyn. As always it was very enjoyable and we learnt a lot.

A more formal dinner will take place tonight and there will be further workshops tomorrow morning before we wind up the weekend and head for home.