POWERtalk Pollokshields Blog

Wednesday 19th February. 2020  in Hutchesons' Grammar School - Room A21.

 The evening was opened by President Brendan who gave apologies from three members and introduced 

 Roz who was the chairman for the evening.   Roz gave an inspiration and topics were given to Grace, Liz, Louise, Brendan and Regina.   Brendan handed out a quiz about Dance which caused much discussion and laughter.   Following the Tea interval two speeches were given   

 One by Grace on a Hungarian Dance she did at school and

 Lauren on the importance of dance lessons for the young.

 Regina evaluated the speech by Grace and Louise the speech by Lauren.

A short business meeting was then held to discuss the Caledonia Council Speech Contest and to make arrangements for the Club Speech Contest at the next meeting.

The General Evaluation was given by Ruth and the Vote of Thanks and Timing was by Liz.

A very happy and informative evening was had by all.

The next meeting is on 4th March in Hutchesons' Grammar School - room A21 and is the Club Speech Contest to which all are welcome.

5th February 2020

 Roz who took us through the ages with fashion and gave us sensible advice at the end.

Carole who led us through a number of areas of life which was fashion-led and told us about a jumper which she has knitted which was on the catwalk during London Fashion Week.

The evaluations were by Grace and Brendan.

A short Business Meeting then took place and items discussed were the Council and Club Speech Contest and club dues.

The Timing was by Carole and the General Evaluation and Vote of Thanks was by Liz.

A most enjoyable evening was had by all.

Date of the next meeting:   19th February 2020 in Hutchesons' Grammar School and the Theme will be Dance.

Scilla who handed out topics to Louise on the furthest North she had been.

Regina, Liz and finally Brendan.

We were then led through a session by Brendan on Happy Memories through the decades.

Following the tea break Ruth gave us a very interesting and historical speech on Tam O' Shanter and Glengarry hats which was evaluated by Grace

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 

Roz and Carole - both of whom had decided to dress up for Halloween.

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,

 POWERtalk Pollokshields Club Meeting held in Hutchesons' Grammar school Room A21 on  15th May 2019.

The theme for the evening:  Transformations.

 President Scilla opened the meeting a welcomed the members.  She introduced Louise who was the Chairman for the evening.

 Following an interesting Inspiration, Louise handed out Topics.

The first topic went to President Scilla on Favourite stories involving a change

 The second topic went to Ruth on Makeovers.

 Carole took the next topic on Windfarms (dressed  up suitably for her visit to the Eurovision Song Contest)

 Brendan's topic was on a favourite toy as a child

 Lauren was asked about transformations in animals.

 Roz gave us all an education session involving words using a word wheel and guessing the correct meaning of various words.

Following the tea break we had speeches from Liz "Thanks Tim" and

Grace on Transformations - Myth, Fact or Fantasy?

There were various items of business which were discussed in the Business Meeting.

Regina gave us the timing on the evening.

A full General Evaluation was given by Ruth

Regina gave us the Closing Thought and Vote of Thanks.

Date of Next Meeting - 29th May 2019

Theme:  Let's Get Cooking and AGM.

17th April, 2019

A Night at the Movies.

in Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow.

 The meeting was opened by President Scilla who introduced

 Grace as Chairman for the evening.    Topics were handed out  including asking if going to the movies was a regular event  or a special occasion? How much has going to the cinema influenced you? What is your preferred genre of film? Did you ever want to go into the film industry?

What heartthrobs did you have from the movies?

The  Intermission kept to the theme of the evening and popcorn was served in addition to the usual tea, coffee and cake.

During the Second half of  the evening  club members gave a short review of various films. First was Liz with "Mama Mia … here we go again"

 Brendan chose - "Seven Samarai"

 Lauren "Joy"

 Regina on "Caberet"

 Louise chose "Mandy"

 For Roz it was "Some Like it Hot"

 Carol chose the classic "Charade"

Finally Ruth - "Twelve Years a Slave"

Grace, as Chairman also gave us a short review of "Bambi"

The General Evaluation was by Brendan and Closing Thought and VOT was by Roz.

A very interesting evening with so many different types of films being discussed and  which everyone enjoyed.

The Next meeting is on Wednesday 1st May, 2019 with the Theme:  New Beginnings.

Visitors are very welcome.

 Our president Scilla welcomed members to the meeting and gave apologies from Anita and Ruth.

 Grace was introduced as Chairman for the evening.   Grace's Passing Thought was from Chaucer.   Topics were given out 

 Louise on Spring in the Garden

 Carole on Spring Pilgrimage to the Eurovision Song Contest

 Regina on the Dawn Chorus and finally

Liz on Seasons.

This was followed by an interesting and fun Education session by Brendan when he asked members to tell us who we would like to invite to dinner - among those we wanted were Sidney Poitier  Elvis 2 people wanted him, J.K. Rowling, Calum MacFarlan Barow, Dustin Hoffman and Stuart MacBride.

Following the Interval came the speeches

 Lauren about Spring Fashion

 Iris on the joys of thinking about Spring cleaning.

 The President opened the meeting and introduced the Chair for the evening - Brendan.

 An excellent Education Session was given by Louise on the correct way to run a meeting.   A good reminder to us all.

 Following the tea interval Regina gave her "Icebreaker" speech which was both entertaining and informative - well done!

 New member Regina.

The Chairman, Liz was introduced and after giving an inspiration "All mushrooms are edible, but some only once" which is a Croatian Proverb.she led the topics including Scillla on "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom", Carole on the difficulty of going out to dinner as a vegetarian, Grace foraging for mushrooms in Italy and Regina on the difficulties of love in ancient Rome.

Tis was followed by a very lively "fun" session based on 20 Questions.   The winner was Carole.

Following the tea interval there were two speeches 

 Roz - Title "Fungi by any other name" and

 Iris - title "Our little fungi friends"

Both speeches were both entertaining and educational.   Who would have guessed that there was so much to say about fungi?

5th December, 2018 at 7.30pm. in Hutchesons' Grammar school - Room A20.

Theme:  Under the Weather.

The meeting was opened by President Scilla who gave apologies from Carole and Ruth.  Grace was introduced as Chair for the evening.

 Louise on advantages of being under the weather - she could not see any.

Liz and the Science of the Weather.

 Regina and Looking Under the Weather

 Roz on reacting to superstitions such as St Swithin's Day.

 Iris gave a very lively and useful education session on beginnings and endings of speeches.  Everyone contributed and this was a very lively session.

Following the tea interval there were speeches

 Lauren made her first speech entitled "Under the Weather"

President Scilla opened the evening and gave a special welcome to all the guests - Frances, Regina, Lauren, Barbara and Carole.

Apologies were given by Ruth, Iris, Carole and Anita.

Louise was introduced as Chair for the Evening.

Topics were given by Scilla, Lauren, Roz, Brendan, 

Frances and Grace.

The Theme of the evening was "Book Reviews" and Reviews were given by

Lauren on "Got You Back" by Jane Fallon.

Roz on "Elevation" by Stephen King

Louise on "The Puppet Boy of Warsaw" by Evan Weaver.

Brendan on "Beside the Ocean of Time" by George McKay Brown.

Grace on "Appetite and Greed" by Phillip Kazan.

Liz on "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" by Gail Honeyman and "I'll Keep you Safe" by Peter May.

Regina on "Runnaway" by Alice Munro

And finally Scilla on "This is Going To Hurt" by Adam Kay.

The Proposed Interclub was discussed and the Timing was by Brendan.

The General Evaluation was by Brendan.

The Closing Thought and Vote of Thanks was by Grace.

The Next Meeting is on 5th December 2018 in Hutchesons' Grammar school and the Theme is to be "Under the Weather."

Theme:   Autumn Leaves a lot to be Desired.

The members were welcomed by President Scilla.

Special welcome to visitor Frances.

Roz was chairman for the evening and gave us the Inspiration and Topics.

Topics were given by Liz, Louise, Grace and Brendan.

Brendan gave us an interesting Education on some of the pictures of Vincent Van Gough with some insights into the background of three pictures.

Following supper Iris gave us an educational speech about Autumn with a great deal of information about trees, leaves and even railways.

The final speaker for the evening was Ruth who gave us an amusing but useful speech about having an exit strategy. 

Timekeeping was by Liz.

The evening was brought to a close with a General Evaluation by Scilla and the closing thought and Vote of Thanks was by Liz.

 Sir Karl Jenkins aka Scilla