Anyone for an all over sandpaper
Speakeasy@Martlesham
Report for 9 March 2006
The great thing about Speakeasy is the tremendous buzz and friendly atmosphere as soon as you walk into the room, with members chatting and catching up and those with roles bustling about making sure everything is as it should be.
Andy Pitts got the evening off to a cracking start with e-bay as the theme for our Introductions. This produced a wealth of stories plus advice from Phil Zoio on avoiding phishing scams, from Ann on how to acquire a large shoe collection, and from Dinesh Bhuyana on the danger of paying more for second hand goods on e-bay than you’d have to pay for new in the shops!
Ian Read encouraged us to illuminate the evening by working that word into as many of our speeches as we could, and everyone tried hard to be innovative.
Liz Parker ran Table Topics on the theme of transport and we had some interesting rambles down the byways of time travel, difficult journeys - where David held us in suspense with a tale of almost missed flights and a collapsing airport roof- and we also heard about weddings in exotic foreign parts. Phil Zoio took the Trophy with a travel agent’s guide to Mars, reassuring us that we’d all be 120 and possibly no longer of this world by the time we got there anyway!
President Jeff Bartrop evaluated the topics speakers with helpful advice and encouragement, and reminded us that we shake hands to signify transfer control of the floor to the incoming speaker and we use the correct introduction of Mr/Madam Toastmaster… to indicate that the speaker now has the floor.
After the break we had some excellent speeches. Dinesh wittily took us through the maze of booking a trip to Paris with the help of his wife Sunita’s friend – the great punchline to the tale was that the friend was Google! Deb Lawrence held us spellbound with her interpretive reading of Princess Diana’s very moving speech about landmines and Teresa rounded off the evening with a very funny account of her day at Shrubland Hall Spa, with some very expressive body language. Somehow being sandpapered and hosed down isn’t an attractive proposition, even if the masseur is a 6 foot blond, blue eyed Swede!
We had three excellent evaluations from Sue Coppens-Browne, John Rowe and Ian Crane, all very considered and supportive and in the true Toastmaster spirit of commend-recommend-commend.
Howard Smith provided succinct and witty Timekeeper’s reports and Ian Read rounded off the evening with his Wordmaster’s report, highlighting some of the more interesting phrases from the evening such as Teresa trying to fill some ‘splots’ on the forthcoming programmes.
A succinct helpful timely General Evaluator report was delivered in style by Frances Crane ATMb - who is taking a couple of Speak Easy ideas back to Ipswich Electrifiers.
As always, it was a thoroughly entertaining evening full of interest, wit and humour and friendship
Ian Crane
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