Participants left to right - Andy, Sue, Catherine, Christopher, Deborah, Jennifer, Rose and Stella.

New Toastmasrters Year. New President Andy Pape opened his first meeting to a warm audience. Leading by example he completed his CC#10 Speech which was an inspiring talk on his Toastmasters experience, "The Journey to No.10". Another new beginning was an Ice Breaker speech "Breaking the Ice" by Deborah Lewis. This speech finished with a lovely sentence that she did not have to crack the ice with an Icebreaker, that the warmth here helped her melt it.
Robert

A smaller (cosier) meeting in which most people spoke two or more times. A good range of speakers this evening, showing the clubs depth included Rose Sawkins CC#3 Get to the Point, Rona Harding CC#10 Inspire Your Audience and a Simon Cooper's Advance Dramatic Talk.
Immediate Past President Sue mannering took on the Toastmaster role as traditionally happens on the last meeting fo the Toastmasters year.
Robert

A massive attendnace of 36, well done everyone who brougt a friend to make the meeting event better, its great to get a bigger audience as the learnings and feedback to the speaker increases. A very special meeting with the club gaining two more Competent Communicators, well done to Jennifer mackay and David healy who was also voted best speaker, and both speeches were very inspiringing. David's speech hoped to sinspire the audience to inspire others. A lesson david learned was to somethign small can have a big effect, so sometimes getting more done means thinking small.  Ben Amthor's speech on the Big Five was a vocal variety speech that was very provoking and excellent choice of topic for the Toastmasters audience. Vivid pictures were of ones life being in a museum as in Tomas Derale book. The big five is the five experiences you want to be seen in your museum. The Toastmaster Doug Williams brought a great amount of energy from the start of the meeting, right unti the end. He promoted the word of the day (Quixotic - Impracticabily impossible, by grammarian Robin Cao) by getting everyone on the audience to use it. Aliki the special guest (GE) noted on how all visitors were welcomed by many committee members, well done to the team. A congratualations goes Chris Bell whom achieved his Competent Leadership this week for his outstanding efforts and helping make a better club.

Robert

27 speakers in total were packed into this 2 hour meeting and this included 5 guests, now 4 as congratulations goto Antonio who is our newest memeber. Club President Robert Carmichael opened the meeting ands straight away presented the club with two awards, a ribbon for Talk-Up Toastmasters, and a certificate for the Club's 5th Anniversary.
This was Jerry Arulandu's final meeting, so it was well organised that he be the Toastmaster. Deborah L was timekeeper for her first time, and told a bird peom that illustrated how time flies. Laura as Grammarian introduced the words of the day with examples such as aspire to be a better person who then inspires others, both of which were well used during the meeting. Amy's Table Topics were very direct 1 liners that had everyone on their toes, we were entertained by Chris Bell, David, Marlene, Chris Bloomfield, Jilly, Robin and Peter all gave impromptu speeches. Evaluating for the first time at Northern Lights was ACCA speakers President Monica Liljeroth.
Prepared speeches we learned about Louise Convery in London Calling, in which the audience travelled from Scotland and around the wolrd but it is London that feels like home. Susie Goldring speech as titled A million Different People (I should have wrote this report last night!). Rona's I can feel it in the water showed how our we are feeling really can affect the molecular building blocks of water inside ourselves. Jennifer Mackay gave a thought and heart provoking speech about the value of our names and sided againsts changing name at marrige. Speech evaluators included Ben, Doug, Sue and guest evaluator Andy. Everything gets evaluated and Jilly rounded off how the club has come on so much in the 5 years and how all this evenings participants did so well.
best bit best bit of the evening... the Icebreakers awards were presented to Louise and Susie, or which Susie also won Best Speaker. Chris Bell won Best Table Topic Speaker and guest evaluator Andy Jones from Holborn Speakers left with Best Evaluator.

What a fantastic meeting. Our guest General Evaluator, Adrian Carter, Holborn Speakers VPE was impressed by the multiple times he was greeted as he entered the London Irish Centre. We started with a short opening speech by myself, followed by a call to arms for the club competition (to be held on the 15th March) by the competition Chairman, Simon Cooper , followed by a reminder that dues must be paid in the month of March by the Treasurer, Peter Charles.