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