On a wet and wild night Holborn turned on a great show for the many guests who visited. In a welcome return to the fold Holborn Speaker’s own Freddie Daniells led the evening as toastmaster. He showed the style and energy that has propelled him to the upper echolons of the TM organisation in the UK. Femi started the speeches with an examination of the why’s and why nots of snoring. Happily with Femi on the stage the audience wasn’t doing any snoring of their own. Auguste then spoke about the perils of believing in IQ tests, and sounded very clever doing so.
In table topics Martin gave us a chance to be persuasive. That is to lie outrageously. How would you convince somebody of something that isn’t really true? There were some outstanding efforts. James took the prize by explaining that for all the good intentions he was just too English to try to get a woman’s number on a train. Ratan also made a welcome return to action evaluating the 10(!) Topics speakers. The night was rounded off with a general evaluation from Christopher Hall, our area governor, who took a unique but effective approach to the role. An enjoyable evening was had by all, the next one is on the 2nd of March.
Filed by: chrisboden | Category: Uncategorized
Monday, February 22nd 2010 8:26 am
A BBC News 24 blooper during the reporting of the Josef Fritzl case in Austria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWFypHb48k
Filed by: sramay | Category: Uncategorized
Thursday, February 11th 2010 12:04 am
Holbornites,
Due to the size and success of the club over the last several years we have developed a reasonable surplus of funds in the club bank account. As a non-profit organisation this is less than ideal so the committee have decided to look at ways to use the surplus constructively and lower it. To this end a few things are happening:
Firstly Bloomsbury speakers has been given a handsome startup fund. Secondly fees are going down. At the next renewal (end of March) fees will be a fair bit lower than previously.
And finally, and this is the really interesting bit, we are offering incentives. Namely, any member who completes their Competent Leader, Advanced Leader Bronze or Silver, Advanced Communicator Bronze, Silver, Gold or DTM will be eligible for 6 months free membership. So, how is that CL manual going?
The club contest is on the 16th March. There are a number of key CL manual projects that are most easily done during a contest … just saying.
Filed by: chrisboden | Category: Committee, Competent Leader, Contests
Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 9:43 pm
