“Toilet roll. Think about it. Where would we be without it?”*  Not in a good place, we realised. An unsettling hush fell upon the room as members quietly considered the prospect when, thankfully, finally, a clear sure voice of chirpy,

April 1st and a fecking crazy meeting with VOX . Through the Looking Glass had nothing on these guys. Everything was back-to-front, upside down and not as it should be. So much so, in fact, that this is a blog

SUPERHEROES Superpowers was the theme for the Vox meeting on Wednesday night! Our role-doers dreamed of everything from having the powers of telepathy, invisibility and flight to my own personal favourite from Merrilyn, (el presidente and Toastmaster for the evening),

First night back at VOX and it started off with a bang. (Not literally of course). But a jam-packed new venue, humming with enthusiasm,  meant we were off to a flying start. President Merrilyn Campbell welcomed us all and put

‘Summer time and the living is easy, Fish are jumping And the cotton is high’ Gershwin and DuBose Heyward had the right idea when they composed the music and above lyrics to the well-loved aria from ‘Porgy and Bess’.  The

What would you do if there was a mystery guest at Toastmasters? And you didn’t know that he/she was in the audience until you were in the middle of your Stage 6? Even worse, what if you hadn’t had enough

“I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail.”   Them is fighting words. The kind we’ve come to expect from spirited Rosie Cleary. Especially when giving her CC10, the primary

So you’ve done the donkey work, you’ve laughed, cried and sweated your way through 9 speeches in the Competent Communicator manual and now the Holy Grail awaits you – CC10 and the Award of Certified Competent Communicator. Are you going

From dark, green frogs, to Italia 90, to vegetarianism, the topics session on Wednesday night revealed all kinds of fascinating things about Vox members, thanks to the engaging topics from our lovely Topics master for the night, Muireann. She opened

Sometimes you come across something that is just too good to keep it to yourself and you just have to share it with those around you! I was lucky enough to get the chance to do some training in image