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It’s been seven hours and three long days since the dawn of Christmas day. Life as you knew it is over and all there is is eating.  Happy animation gave way to blurred stupefaction two days ago, and the only

Would you leave your lover over garlic chips? I nearly did once. The smell, the look, the lingering after-breath….gross! Our opinion of garlic chips was but one sought by innovative Topicsmaster Fergal, who used image prompts to get us thinking

Would you time-travel JUST to meet this lady??? Dan G would. Any lady who can deflect bullets with her bangles and lasso baddies in her high-heels was worth facing the eighties for. But isn’t it disappointing, I argued, that TV’s

“Arthur’s Day” may have been axed this year but VOX is still going strong and as mad as ever. Wednesday saw us fighting horse-sized ducks, rewriting the “Our Father” (sooo funny – read it below) and being hit by meteors

Imagine walking into a room full of two thousand Toastmasters. How would you feel? Frightened? Overwhelmed? Inspired? How about all of the above? Going to my first ever international Toastmasters convention was an eye-opener.   It started on Wednesday morning with

Hello Vox Populi members and friends, Summer is ending but that can be a good thing, as it means that Vox Populi Toastmasters is back! We return to Oil Can Harrys (also called O’Connor’s) on Wednesday,  2nd September at 7pm.

“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