Regular meeting plus Speechcraft ...Mon 18th May 2025

Our regular meeting was well attended tonight with  20 of us cramming into the smaller meeting room tonight.
 Isn't it always the way when we have to use the small room everyone turns up....
We had 16 members  1 speechcrafter Edith  and 3 visitors Pat, Chris and Carol in attendance tonight. 
It was nice to see Chris back with us if only for a visit and it is always nice to see Pat .
 Also had  a visit from a lady named Carol who  was interested  and showed interest in joining us .
Tonight  5 speeches were on the agenda ,  however 2 of those who were on the agenda to speak didn't arrive which cut the speakers down to just 3. 
However the 3 speakers were all excellent and each gave us something  different to think about. All were giving only their 2nd ever speech. Edith  told us about safely in the home for seniors, Dom explained how important it is to look after our skin and Gilles told us about how important it is to have perseverence .......
All speeches were well done. 
Evaluations  by Sam, Sephen and Ray were all well done also.
Our chairman tonight was Gilles who did a good job for his 1st time in the position.
A busy boy tonight was our newest member  Dom who delivered our TOAST , TABLE TOPICS and his 2nd SPEECH. He did a great job of all of his assignments. 
His TABLE TOPICS were exellent, he went to a lot of trouble to find good, sometimes serious, sometimes funny topics for us to talk on.
 Due to us running a bit behind time his Table Topics had to be cut short, such a shame as he had some good topics that he didn't get to use. Next time DOM......!
He came up with a novel idea and the pic below was given to Ray, Ray was then asked (what was going on in it ?). Ray explained it well, great T/T  Quesions Dom, very funny....Well done.

We did not have any voting tonight so we have no winners and grinners except for AARON who tonight recieved his Competent Communicator certificate...Well done Aaron....You have come a long way in a short time with Toastmasters.... and Edith who was given the chairmans award.. And as you can see Tanya was Winging it all night

Congratulations to Aaron Competent Communicator certificate.

Edith was given the Chairmans award....

Jane did our Listening Post

Ann was her barrel girl

And Tanya managed to still give orders and  wing it all night.


We are planning to have our 25 year (SILVER)
 anniversary/ birthday celebrations on  Monday 3rd August so if you know of someone who has been a member of Blue Gum Flat Toastmasters at some time you might like to let them know that this would be a lovely time to catch up and have a bit of a reunion of old friends of Blue Gum Flat Toasties. 
Please try and spread the word so that this will be a huge success.......

On the 15th June we have our Humorous speech and evaluation contest so please try to enter  this, 

Christine is looking for names....

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Next meeting is on June 1st , same time same place.

 Ourimbah RSL 7-15 pm, 

so please try to be there.