I’m a few days late with this posting, but I have good news to report. There was a marked improvement with my latest “off the hoof” speech at Cambridge Toastmasters The tabletop topic required us to describe what it would have been like to live during a period in history: my era was the Ukraine in the 1920s. I managed to imagine I was a woman called Ireni married to a drunk and lasted an incredble 1 min 53 secs. I even had a slip passed to me afterwards which read “excellent, entertaining and humorous – well done”. Thanks Jo.

Thanks also to Stephen Newton who replied to my email asking his advice about blogging. His blog is amazing and I shall study it in detail. Also highly recommeded is Geoff’s mindblowing blog too.
I have so much to learn.