Hello again blog readers. Well, last night at the Speakers' circle was challenging and different. How good are your skills at describing a mystery object and making up a fairly? plausible story about what it could be used for? It's surprising the sorts of ideas that come into your head, when the audience is looking at you quizzically and you've unwrapped a fairly ordinary looking mystery object from the box and proceed to tell a story about it...... So there it was, after the struggle to unwrap it - a TV remote control device! After a few moments hesitation wondering what I could say about it, I then heard myself figuring out that this wonderful burnished ebony (alias plastic) object had come from the depths of the Amazon jungle and how I'd struggled with giant spiders etc. to bring it back home to have it made up into a remote control. Anyhow, back on non-fantasy land, more speakers had us guessing about the real purpose of their objects, to much hilarity at times. So, altogether an entertaining and instructive exercise in keeping cool and focused in front of an audience. Thanks to Austin, for standing in for Barry to-night and keeping the continuity going. Next week, and again you're very welcome to join us, for some story-telling. By the way, any guesses as to what the object below is? Tune in, next week for the story about it......................
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