What an entertaining evening! But that’s what it’s all about – a good dose of fun and something to learn along the way. Congratulations to our speakers tonight, Scott & Rohit on two great presentations. Scott used toastmasters tonight as a test-run for a talk he will give on drug testing tomorrow at his work. […]
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It was great to see so many people along to our demonstration meeting tonight. We deviated from the regular programme with M.C. Ellie giving our guests a friendly run-down on Toastmasters. Toastmaster Jan was next, setting a great positive tone for the meeting, introducing Grammarian Randal with his tongue-twisting word of the day ‘loquacious’. Tonight
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An interesting & entertaining evening, headed up by Toastmaster Jonathan who kicked us off with a reflective & motivating reading from Marianne Williamson. Tim the Grammarian introduced the word of the day ‘omnishambles’, which only officially became a word last month. Randall took the floor next with some incredible tales of the supernatural in his
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An all-round interesting, entertaining and educational evening. Toastmaster Rohit was captain of the ship and kicked us off introducing grammarian Ade with her word of the day “Tenacious”. Jan took the floor next with a captivating recount of her recent experience, renovating French furniture. Doing a fantastic job speaking without notes, Jan showed how simple
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It was a night of thoughtful and at times very moving speeches. Some exceptional use of language – we clearly are a club of word-smiths. Tasha blew us away with her beautifully-crafted speech on post-quake Christchurch, capturing the mood, rebirth and even the language with this new city. Then Scott took us on the search
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