Discovering Churchill

24 August 2006. We have decided to try a nice place in the eastend for our meeting. The practical choice: Canary Wharf. And what a better way to try the new Churchill Place.

Jenny volunteered to take the lead and facilitated in asking a round of questions to get to know each other a level higher.

Highlights…. Jenny and Mary discovered that they are both Julia Roberts’ fans, favourite films are Notting Hill and Pretty Woman, respectively. Sharing one’s dream holiday, Ben longs for a tour at the Safari whilst Alan wants a Northern Lights experience in Alaska and a stay at an ice hotel in Iceland. Talking about good reads, Andrew's favourite book is an inspirational one – it’s about a cleaner who became a top calibre neuro-surgeon. For Mary, the book that she loves reading again and again is The Little Prince.

We played a game too [Game of Consequence, Jenny calls it]! We passed papers around after writing an item and folding it up so that the next person writing the second entry would not see the previous one. Each piece of paper had the following entries: Book title, Author, Synopsis, the Review, and the Reviewer.



Now the stand outs...

WORSTSELLER:

Title: The Gods Are Not to Blame
Author: Miss Betty Bluelane
Summary: Mary was desperate to go to the loo because of diarrhoea. Will she succeed in her quest? This is a story of determination and great self-motivation in life.
the Review: 'Good as toilet paper'
Reviewer: Anne Droid of the Sanctuary Times

RUNNER-UP:

Title: Alan, is a member of the Papparazzi?
Author: Android Coffee-Anan
Summary: A man killed his father and married his own mother without him knowing.
the Reviews: 'Amazingly not funny' and 'A must not read'
Reviewer: Playboy Magazine

THIRD PRIZE

Title: Canary Wharf Dreamers
Author: Wole Soyinka
Summary: The cleaner that manouvres from the glass walls of Canary Wharf -- loudly polishing the floors and making them squeeky clean.
Reviews: ' Really crappy' -- Sunday Times; 'Posh Beckham can do a nicer one' -- Hello Magazine; ' Not a good read' -- News of the World

As to the other two, they're are totally incoherent - but still a bit funny!





If you were wondering, yes, the LSE meeting wrapped up in a prayer.