Dear Gemma, HELP! I’m due to give my stage 6 speech at the club meeting next week and I can’t think of a single thing to write it on!! I’ve tried watching the news for inspiration but that just makes
Read moreJOYEUX NOEL_18th December 2013
Christmas Vox a la francais. Who’d have guessed? But we’re a pretty ingenious crowd. Grammarian, Jean-Marie, encouraged us all to use French phrases when speaking. And, inventive ah-counter Maria, suggested we use “Ho, ho, ho” instead of crutch words. Both
Read moreFurry Legged Spiders and Fridge Water_4th December 2013
Wednesday’s meeting opened on a decidedly Festive note after the Christmas party on Saturday! Kicking off things with gusto, our lovely Topicsmaster, Merrilyn, announced the very innovative idea that deciding who would be given what topic would be done by
Read moreFacing Fear_27th November 2013
Fear. Everybody has it and nobody likes it. How can we overcome fear? Three speakers attempted to answer this on Wednesday. Martin hinted at the possibility that our fears are less substantial than we think. Are we still afraid of
Read moreVox Populi ‘Ten Commandments’_25th November 2013
At Vox Populi we do the serious business of delivering speeches very well. In fact we have it down to a fine art, but we also have a lot of fun while we’re doing it and with this in mind,
Read moreUnleash your Inner Superman, 30 October-2013
Our Halloween Club meeting at McGrattans on Wednesday last week was one of the scariest club meetings I have ever been to….. and that was even before Dan G as Topicsmaster, resplendent in his Sergeant’s uniform, announced that he would
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