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Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:54 |
Five Club Members travelled to Stubbington to the Area Humorous Speech and Table Topics competition on a beautiful September afternoon.
Disappointment. Tony Peters performed his excellent speech exceptionally well only to be beaten into 2nd place by a member from the local club who is planning to become a professional speaker. Bearing in mind this was the first competition that Tony has entered, he did exceptionally well.
The Table Topics subject was particularly exacting and was not won by Steve Osborne.
It was good to be involved - to participate; a lot was learnt about these competitions and it is interesting to meet members from other Toastmaster clubs. |
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Meeting on 23rd September |
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:54 |
With 7 guests including the Area Governor, Keith the venue had an expectant atmosphere which was orchestrated elegantly by Robin Thirlwell as Toastmaster.
Dawn Wilson and Kenny Jones entertained with their respective speeches. I think I will use Dawn as my travel guide - she makes the places she visits sound so enticing and make a note not to go competitive drinking with Kenny Jones if he reverts to his old ways.
Peter Roxburgh, new member performing his ice-breaker won the best speech which gave everyone in the audience a new perspective on arranged marriages.
Olga Taylor was Table Topics Master with a new twist on using colours as a subject. Dan Webb won with 'purple'. An entertaining evening, as always. |
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Club Humorous Speech and Table Topics Competition. |
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:53 |
With 4 Humorous Speeches and 7 contestants for the Table Topics competition, this was a fun filled evening well managed by Dan Webb as Competition Chairperson for the Humorous Speeches competition and Hazel Montague the Table Topics.
All four Humorous Speeches were good enough for the area competition. The author was amazed that David Singleton-Smith who was the first contestant was actually beaten into 2nd place by Tony Peters. Well done too to both Simon Bell and Kenny Jones, the other contestants.
The seven contestants for Table Topics contestants included Jane Hullcoop, competing before she has performed her ice-breaker and Dan Webb who came 2nd in his first competition. Steve Osborne won on this occasion. |
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Meeting Report 13th August 2009 |
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Thursday, 13 August 2009 11:33 |
There is something liberating about doing business in August. Everything we do is a bonus because most other people are on holiday and Steve Osborne set us off at an exciting pace as usual.
Guests were abundant tonight and from far afield as Russia thanks to Olga's nephew Alexis, Germany thanks to Gabby and less far flung but equally welcome, Jason Cunningham and a husband and wife team Ken and Margaret from Hamwiic Speakers near Southampton.
Our Sergeant at Arms was Tony at the last minute, thank you Tony and our Toastmistress was Fiona Grant who I will never separate from the concept of laughter yoga.
Speeches and evaluations were kept to perfect time by Simon Bell and Hazel Montague evaluated us all with an air of experience mixed with the skittishness of a little girl.
Dan Webb won best speaker. Simon Bell won best evaluator and Peter Roxbrugh won best table topic speaker. Andrew Collinson evaluated the wonderful table topics ranging from a brush to mosquito spray with great candour (I'm not even sure what that means but it seems to fit).
So, all in all, another fantastic meeting.
Simon Bell wrote this report (did you guess?). |
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 14:53 |
If you want to be an effective communicator then attending Cottonwood Speakers is a great place to start. It really helps build your confidence in public speaking. But it does something even more useful than that – it helps you develop an even more important skill in becoming an excellent communicator, the skill of LISTENING.
Author: Keith Hart CC (Confident Communicator) CL (Confident Listener) |
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