Zoom meetings just get better and better!  That is our second zoom meeting under our belts and we continue to get used to the technology.  Although it is certainly no substitute for being face to face. Colin gave us some great imagery when he described his walking route, well trodden during his “1 excercise a…

Another upbeat meeting last night at Linlithgow, with 2 new guests and another from Glasgow Toastmasters (Gerry). All were made welcome by Sheila who asked us “What warms you up?”. We learned a great speech technique from Gerry – he started half way through his story so we were intrigued as to why he was…

Toastmaster Pathways is now well under way but is still not fully understood.  Avril gave us a speech about what a Path looks like and then invited Questions and Answers.  She was also undertaking a Level 4 project in which she had to lead a Q&A session. So what is in a Path? You came…

We had our last Toastmaster Meeting of the Toastmaster year last night. Well done, Linlithgow Speakers, we made Presidents Distinguished Club, the highest accolade a club can achieve through the Distinguished Club Programme. What fabulous speeches last night! Euan talked about the 3 R's - Reduce, Recycle, Re-use, and gave us a fascinating history of...

What has Baking and public speaking got in common?  Well it’s great to have something tasty at the break and Susan provided some lovely, homemade treats.  Anyone is welcome to bring some tasty treats to any meeting and we’ll make sure they get eaten! Apart from the food, we had a great meeting with plenty...

We learned all about Toastmaster Dogs tonight!  We were lead by Jim Boyd who had a difficult job because of the packed agenda.  Nevertheless, we were mostly on time. Jim started us down the track of curiosity tonight, a theme which seemed to erode and be overtaken by dogs.  Not sure how that happened but...