What can this concoction do for the US? - 9th November 2016

Our meeting on 9^th November was well attended with a mix of members and guests. As our club President was unavoidably absent the meeting was opened by Martin, our Toastmaster for the evening. He welcomed us all and set out the programme for the evening and introduced the officers for the evening. He then handed over to our Topicsmaster Liam.

The Topics session covered a wide variety of topics from what kind of drink would Donald Trump be, how the polling got it so wrong, what kind of houses our four main political leaders would live in, favourite childhood games and the type of TV programme we would like to see made. Many members used the opportunity to speak for the first time at a meeting and were very impressive.

We had three formal speeches. The first from Doireann focused on vocal variety and dealt with the trials and tribulations of minding a three year old child. This was followed by Donal with a speech on Ireland’s Housing Crisis which was very topical. He also answered questions from the audience which he achieved successfully. Our final speech was from Margaret and dealt with the experience of modern travel and why the old days may not have been that bad.

After our break we had speech evaluations. This section was led by our General Evaluator Ann with Sarah, Mike and Frances evaluating the speeches. They gave much positive feedback with a suggestion for the speakers to work on in their future speeches.

We then had our feedback from our Ah-Counter for the night, Tim, and from our Grammarian, Ellen, who had had the temerity to introduce the word “temerity” as our word for the night at the start of the night.

Following a general evaluation of the meeting by Ann she handed back to Martin who closed the meeting by thanking members and guests for participating in a wonderful evening.