POWERtalk Pollokshields — A Heilan' Fling

Wednesday 27th November, 2019


The evening was opened by President Brendan who amused us all with tales of his highland dancing when very young.





Brendan then introduced us to the Chairman for the evening

Scilla who handed out topics to Louise on the furthest North she had been.

Regina, Liz and finally Brendan.

We were then led through a session by Brendan on Happy Memories through the decades.

Following the tea break Ruth gave us a very interesting and historical speech on Tam O' Shanter and Glengarry hats which was evaluated by Grace

Iris was the second speaker and her topic was on Whisky Cocktails with a very amusing tale of the origins of the term Cocktail. Iris's speech was evaluated by Anita.

A short business meeting followed to discuss some Region Business and also the Division of Labour for the Christmas Party next week.

The timings were by Liz and Regina gave an excellent Evaluation of the evening.


The next meeting of POWERtalk Pollokshields is the Christmas party which is to be held in the home of the President.   There will be a short break thereafter until February.

POWERtalk Pollokshields – In or Out.

Wednesday 30th October, 2019 at 7.30 in Hutchesons' Grammar School - room A21.

Theme for the Evening "In or Out"

President Brendan opened the meeting and welcomed everyone.  There were no apologies.

Regina was introduced as Chairman for the evening.   Regina gave us an interesting Passing Thought and then presented topics to 

Anita                                                                             Ruth, Liz

Roz and Carole - both of whom had decided to dress up for Halloween.

Regina then presented a very interesting and challenging workshop of how to improve your memory.

Following the tea interval we had two speeches 

Iris who gave us an animated speech on career choices.

Scilla who gave us a very interesting and well researched  speech on the origins of sewing.

Both speeches were quite different and original takes on the Theme.

Evaluations were given by Roz and Liz.

A short Business meeting took place with the Christmas Party being discussed and a Report on the Caledonia Council Meeting.

Iris gave us the timings.

The General evaluation was by Louise who agreed that we had had a most enjoyable evening.

The next meeting will be on 13th November 2019 in Hutchesons' Grammar School - room A21 at 7.30pm.

The Theme of the evening will be "Great Expectations".

CALEDONIA COUNCIL - Saturday 26th October, 2019.

 Members of Caledonia Council met in the Doubletree by Hilton, Westerwood, Glasgow on Saturday 26th October, 2019.  The first item on the Agenda was a business meeting which was chaired by President Iris.    

(President Iris with workshop leader Ruth).

 Following the business meeting there was a very useful workshop by Ruth on "Personal Style"   This was a lively and enjoyable  session with members contributing. 

 The Second session in the morning was by Nancy "Using Words Creatively".    This session involved the members being given some words and asked to write a poem showing the meaning of the words.   this was enjoyed by all.

A delightful lunch was served by the hotel and after lunch there was a "Lifeboat Debate" chaired by Liz.   Six members were given characters (Robert Adam (Carole), John Logie Baird (Roz), David Livingstone (Elizabeth), Ian Rankin (Terry), Robert Burns (Margaret) and Joseph Lister (Laurence)

This was an excellent debate and was very closely run with the winner being Joseph Lister.

Following the Lifeboat Competition there was a short session where members had the opportunity to complete Evaluation Forms.

The Vote of Thanks was by Margaret and the meeting closed at 3.30pm.

The next meeting of Caledonia Council will be the Speech Contest on Saturday 28th March, 2020.

POWERtalk Pollokshields – Home Sweet Home

Meeting on Wednesday 16th October, 2019 in the home of a member.

Theme:   Home Sweet Home"

  Due to the School Holidays we met at the home of a member.  The meeting was opened by Brendan.    Unfortunately due to a number of different reasons there were four apologies for the evening.

Brendan was also the Chairman for the evening and Topics were given out to Roz, on taste in books,

Iris on homeless, Regina on Furniture and Liz on a Happy Childhood.

The Education session was also given by Brendan.   He passed out a number of prints of paintings  and all the members had fun trying to remember details of the paintings.   This was a most enjoyable session on observation.

Timings were given by Scilla which was followed by the Tea Interval.

First on the agenda for the second half was a speech by Regina.  This was a very entertaining and educational speech on dwellings through the ages including information about some radical new ideas.

Carole gave a very fulsome evaluation of Regina's Speech.

This was followed by a short business meeting.

Roz gave an excellent General Evaluation and Vote of Thanks.

Although we were small on numbers it was an excellent evening.

POWERtalk Pollokshields - Send in the Clowns

POWERtalk Pollokshields met on Wednesday 2nd October, 2019 in Hutchesons' Grammar School, room A21.

The theme for the evening was Send in the Clowns.

The President Brendan welcomed the members and one visitor and gave the apologies.

Roz was introduced as Chair for the evening.   Roz gave an Inspiration from Cole Porter's Be a Clown and then gave out topics which were given by Brendan, Carole, Liz, Ruth and Grace all connected to the Theme.

The Education Session was given by Regina in the form of a quiz about Glasgow.    This was full of very interesting facts and was very educational due to the fact that the scores were very low.   Everyone learnt quite a lot about Glasgow.

Following the tea interval speeches were given by Ruth and Liz - both keeping to the Theme, but with very different approaches to the subject.

The evaluations were given by Grace and Brendan.

Brendan conducted a short Business Meeting in which finances were discussed and Liz mentioned the forthcoming Council Meeting.

The timing was by Regina and the General Evaluation and Vote of Thanks was given by Carole.

A most enjoyable evening was had by all.

The next meeting will be held on 16th October in the home of a member due to the fact that ths School will be closed for the October holiday.

POWERtalk Stirling - First Meeting of Session

We have now entered our 38th year as a former International Toastmistress Club and now meet in the Allan Leisure Centre in Bridge of Allan.   At our meeting on 24th September Diana gave a humorous talk on "A Little Bit of Latin can be Fun", while Ruth led a discussion on the use of words and Terry challenged everyone with her topics.   Our next meeting will be in the Allan Centre on 15 October.   Join us for interesting, amusing, and stimulating confidence building.  For further information phone Nancy at 01259-742649

POWERtalk Pollokshields - Autumn Fruits

The evening was opened by Scilla, President for 2018-19 as the final meeting of the last session was not quorate.    The Business Meeting and AGM were held and the new officers for 2019-10 were duly voted in.

The Board was installed by Roz, with Brendan as President, Liz as Vice President, Regina as Secretary and Roz as Treasurer.

Brendan our new President, complete with his badge.

Brendan handed out Topics on the Theme of the evening "Autumn Fruits"with topics going to Scilla, Roz, Carole, Louise and Liz.

The installation was followed by a most entertaining session on Word Power by Roz.

Following the Tea break we had a very entertaining Speech which was evaluated by Scilla.

The timing was by Liz 

The General Evaluation was by Louise.

The next meeting will be on 2nd October and the Theme will be "Send in the Clowns".

Rovers Training Weekend - Sunday

On Sunday morning the Rovers club continued our training weekend with a debate let by Margaret on the proposition "This house believes that pet ownership should be illegal". Everybody present participated. The affirmative team won.

Iris was quiz master with a fiendishly difficult quiz which saw Colin win with 20 out of a possible 60.

After an evaluation of the weekend the members and guests dispersed to journey homewards.

The Rovers Club Training Weekend

Rovers Club are having their annual training weekend, as usual, in Carlisle. This morning the Business Meeting was held followed by the club speech contest.

Linda presenting the trophy to the winner, Laurence

The contestants

In the afternoon members visited Burgh by Sands and St. Michaels, a  Norman church.

Carved Corbel

Millennium Mural

In the evening we had a meal at the Crown and Mitre. A little surprise was that a former member of ITC had provided a little reminder of the past.

ITC Napkin

After a good meal, Rosemary led a very entertaining topic session.

Rovers 2019

Rovers: A visitor from California

Yesterday five members of Rovers met up with Stephanie Booth from California.   Stephanie was on a round Britain Cruise and was in Greenock for the day.   We met her and took her to lunch in Greenock.     As a surprise for her (it was the day after her birthday) we arranged a cake after lunch.  This just proves that the International Spirit of ITC still exists.

POWERtalk Pollokshields

Members of POWERtalk Pollokshields met last night to celebrate the fact that Ruth Maltman, a member was awarded the BEM in the Queen's Birthday honours list.

We all have a most enjoyable evening and were delighted that Ruth has been honoured in this way.

POWERtalk Pollokshields – Transformations

 POWERtalk Pollokshields Club Meeting held in Hutchesons' Grammar school Room A21 on  15th May 2019.

The theme for the evening:  Transformations.

 President Scilla opened the meeting a welcomed the members.  She introduced Louise who was the Chairman for the evening.

 Following an interesting Inspiration, Louise handed out Topics.

The first topic went to President Scilla on Favourite stories involving a change

 The second topic went to Ruth on Makeovers.

 Carole took the next topic on Windfarms (dressed  up suitably for her visit to the Eurovision Song Contest)

 Brendan's topic was on a favourite toy as a child

 Lauren was asked about transformations in animals.

 Roz gave us all an education session involving words using a word wheel and guessing the correct meaning of various words.

Following the tea break we had speeches from Liz "Thanks Tim" and

Grace on Transformations - Myth, Fact or Fantasy?

There were various items of business which were discussed in the Business Meeting.

Regina gave us the timing on the evening.

A full General Evaluation was given by Ruth

Regina gave us the Closing Thought and Vote of Thanks.

Date of Next Meeting - 29th May 2019

Theme:  Let's Get Cooking and AGM.