Meeting Report for Wednesday 8th January 2020

We enjoyed a lively and fun evening - and the room was near capacity. Ilaria was acting President, as Nick had sustained an ankle injury. She handed over to Ben who was Toastmaster. He introduced an anagram-themed evening, in which members and guests who performed roles had their names "anagrammed". Some of the more successful ones included:

Big Lanters
Ornate Blinks
Bewitch a shark
Addled life resin
Hark captain oak
Rise Mr Enchilada
Hare tensions
Eskimo ink awards
Tinkle claws

For reasons of privacy, the VPPR have not revealed the names from which each was devised, but the reader is encouraged to reverse-anagram them if they can. Answers on a postcard, please.

Lynne was an excellent Table Topics master, inviting people to draw hidden objects from a bag which they they spoke about for up to two minutes. She reminded us of the need to add at least one recommendation and being an advanced club, it had to be something of substance (or they could ask the audience).

Our first speaker was Sonia, with "The Nation's Favourite" (Interpretive Reading #2 - Interpretive Poetry). This was followed by Chinkata, with "Smoking is bad for you" (Interpretive Reading #3 - The Monodrama). Our third speaker was Melanie, with "Our Vegan Cafe" (Speeches by Managment #3 Persuade and Inspire). 

The evening's evaluators were David, Ian and Monika.

Our thanks to Rick, from Grosvenor Square Speakers, who performed the GE role expertly.

Prizes were as follows:

Best Table Topics: Anne
Best Evaluator: Monika
Best Speaker: Sonia

Our next meeting is at 19:00 on Wednesday 22nd January 2020, at The Fitzrovia Community Centre, 2 Foley Street, W1W 2DN. Guests are very welcome!