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Hello.

This is my first blog.

Reports from the January meeting.

Morag says, "Barbara collected in the Time entries for Patsy's 100 word competition. Tina sent apologies but will come to next meeting. Frank has moved to Marine ParadeEast.

We admired Barry's trophy and he has agreed with Barbara that he will judge the next competition. We read our preps on "I never said that". They were very good. We heard the next chapter of Anthony's novel about the missing man and then wrote a five minute piece using some random words. Again, the results were very good and inventive. It was great fun. The church was rather chilly, so we adjourned on the dot."

Barbara says, " The room at church didn’t get very warm, unfortunately.  Nevertheless, we had a good meeting with lots of laughs and did some speed writing to finish.

We each chose a word: popcorn, coffee, heather, cinema, shoe, bus, gratitude, rainbow, and rabbit, and had 7 minutes to write the ‘story’."

 Here’s Barbara's story - 

“No gratitude – that’s the attitude of youngsters today!”

George was on his high horse today as he kicked his shoe at the clump of heather on the Scottish hillside.

“Oh, com’on!” urged his mate, Bill, “Let’s quit this rabbit shooting and go to the cinema. We can get the bus back.  A cup of coffee and a bag of popcorn and you’ll soon be feeling on top of the world. There’s always a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!”

Happy new year!

Happy new year to all circle members!

Do any of you have any writing related new year's resolutions?