Wye Knot

As a social event, I thought the Wye Knot meeting, and its continuation afterwards in the pub opposite, was the most fun I had during the speedrun. They are a very friendly and supportive club. And while I'm supremely grateful to all the clubs I met on zoom, without whom the speedrun could not have succeeded, I do think Toastmasters is at its best when conducted live face-to-face.

Regular readers of this blog will know that I struggled more with the level 2 speeches than others, but in the end I was quite proud of this one. I'm grateful for some conversations I had with Helyn Ashford and with Alistair Driscoll on the evening of the meeting, which helped me to inject some meaning into a speech which had previously - in my head - just been a series of anecdotes.

I don't have any videos. Here are the evaluation slips. You have no idea how long I had to spend with a scanner, printer and double-sided-sticky-tape to achieve this:

I had another role, too. I was doing the "Active Listening" project, which involves being the Table Topics Master for the evening. I used a theme which I've done before: "The H G Wells Time Travel Club", in which the audience have survived their journey from 1922, and we have some experts in the room to give them a briefing on various aspects of modern life.

Here are extracts from Rick Cooper's evaluation of it: