Attention class! Last week’s Vox meeting gave Rosie the opportunity to send club members back to their schooldays, with an imaginative topics session that had us all addressing a class of six year olds while attempting to answer some moral
Read moreDeadly_22nd January 2014
“One hundred witnesses say I’m guilty but you can put that out of your mind.” So pleaded Eddie O’Hanlon to judge Muna Muleya as he stood in the docks on Wednesday night in one of the evening’s entertaining role plays.
Read moreNew Year’s Resolutions, Onesies and Kite flying_8th January 2014
Our first meeting of 2014 opened with gusto! Tony, who did a great job as Toastmaster for the evening, welcomed us all to the meeting, giving a particularly warm welcome to our new club members. Fiona Fahy, our lovely Topicsmaster,
Read moreVox Populi Agony Aunt Chapter 1_3rd January 2014
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
Read moreLove/Hate, 9th October 2013
Wednesday night’s Vox was full of love … and hate. It began with cats. (Well, that was bound to divide us). Maria hates them, Mark loves them. But he loves LOVE/HATE more. Why was there such a fuss about a
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