Brendoncare Castle Club, Mudeford Wood

On 23 February, I was booked to deliver The Power of Humour in Everyday Life to another club run by Brendoncare, this time the Castle Club at Mudeford Wood Community Centre in Christchurch.

After my experience the last time I delivered this talk for a Brendoncare club, I was wondering how it would be received at thisone but the 20  ladies there were a very good audience from the outset and it went really well so I was pleased to put that previous talk and what I felt was an off-form performance at Havant & District Writers' Circle the previous week behind me.

Public Speaking Tip #290: If you have a few below par speaking engagements in a row -  for whatever reason - you will find that a) the sequence won't last and b) it really focuses your mind and improves your performance.

After my talk, a couple of the members turned out to be very funny storytellers themselves with a couple of hilarious anecdotes, one about a restaurant's incredibly mean discount offer after waiting staff tipped snails all over a diner and the other about a lady's first (and probably only) all-over massage!