As part of Leeds Business Week, the Leeds Toastmasters clubs came together to put on an event “Pitch Perfect”. It turned out to be a huge success with positive feedback from many of our participants and lots of interests in the clubs. Congratulations to Pierre and everyone else involved in bringing it together.
For our September meeting, Ian Bushfield presented a talk entitled “Skeptics with an Eh: A view of the Canadian Skeptical movement”.
Earlier this month we had our club speech contest. Our Immediate Past President Jude begun with a speech entitled “When The Going Gets Tough”.
I followed with my speech “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Evaluating”.
But our winner was Michael J. Clarke with a speech entitled “Never Say No”.
Earlier this year, Leeds got it’s own Speakers’ Corner. Thanks to Elina is now has it’s own website too. If you want to keep up with all the latest updates by subscribing to the mailing list, see the Speakers’ Corner Leeds website. It’s one of the few groups I’m not running lol.
Following the popularity of his poem on his blog, Jonni committed it to video last weekend. Here it is…
Last weekend, we went down to Corporation in Sheffield to attend the Alternative & Burlesque Fair.
Was it worth it? No. To be honest, I found it so disappointing that I’m not sure I would have even gone to it even if it had been in Leeds, if I had known what it was like.
I don’t think the stalls were are numerous as I was lead to believe and there was nothing particularly interesting there. There were also some stage shows, but the one we saw was just a burlesque dance. That’s probably expected given the name, but the reality of it is that it is just stripping out of slightly fancier clothing.
At £5 to get in, it is not worth a visit in my opinion.
I don’t watch much TV. Who has the time? Then people talk about box sets as if it is still 2007 and we all have DVD players. But Game of Thrones is proving to be one of the rare exceptions.
I’ve now watched the first two series and it quickly turned into a love hate relationship. My favourite characters keep dying. It’s very annoying. You get attached to someone and then his head comes off.
But as the same time, a medieval drama with dragons and snow zombies – what isn’t awesome about that?
Remember It’s a Knockout? I don’t, because even at 26 I’m too young. But basically, Total Wipeout is a total rip off of it, so think that. Except that it started in the 60s, so there was no PC filter of the very offensive comments that the host makes.
Turns out though that you an hire them to turn up and do a corporate events days.
