What an exquisitely entertaining evening! Toastmaster Francis West was his usual smooth, self assured self introducing our enthusiastic speakers.
Table Topics was hosted by Mandip Sohal. The session was based around the world of current affairs and speakers were asked to convince the audience of a particular idea or argument – very challenging and great fun!
We enjoyed 3 fantastic speeches this evening. Charmaine Smith told the poignant story of her daughter’s battle with Sickle Cell Disease. We wish her every success in setting up a platform to increase awareness of this disease.
Angela Lansbury gave a very entertaining and educational speech about poetry.
The highlight of the evening was Mo’s speech entitled Life Begins at 60. Mo wove a fascinating tapestry of the story of her life. She began by describing her 60th birthday. Throughout the speech she used lots of humour. Everyone loved the description of the unique use of a skateboard to wizz around the house to do the cleaning, decorating, fencing and gardening! She thoroughly deserved the best speech award.
General Evaluator Mike Robinson from Athenians provided us with a very insightful and entertaining report to round off the evening.
This evening’s winning speeches were:-
Best Speaker: Mo
Best Evaluator: Maneesha
Best Table Topics: Jan
Icebreaker: Charmaine
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