The first Dinner and Discussion for Older Lesbians of each year is held in February. However this year there was a clash with the many events of World Pride. So we moved the date to March. There was still a clash with the last event...
All was ready for Dinner and Discussion for Older Lesbians but the warning of a storm on the Saturday made the planners anxious that we may not have an audience for our speakers. But no, braving the rain, 23 women arrived carrying plates, and casseroles...
Books that inspired, influenced or affected me positively as a child. 13 August 2022 Our esteemed panel was: Pearlie, (also facilitating); Jan, Chris and Glen. The fourth of our five Dinner and Discussions for Older Lesbians, was inspired by an idea from Jan and Pearlie, both Ten Forty Committee...
Following feedback from the last ‘Big Indoor Picnic,’ for more events with dancing and some line dancing too, the DDfOL planning group organised a Dance Party Night. We selected our winter date of 4 June as, following elections, continued COVID stress, a flu epidemic and...
Dinner and Discussion for Older Lesbians started again in 2022 on Saturday 12 February. The planning group were hoping to be face to face but with rising omicron infections and its ease of infecting people, we made the first event of the year on ZOOM...
A Summary On Saturday the 13 June I participated in my first Zoom experience. I can see how it’s taking off, and how it could be a useful means of discussion and decision making for a group such as ours. As a participant, (not a facilitator or...
On Sat 16 May 2020, Ten Forty Matrix Dinner and Discussion became a book discussion per Zoom to give us all a break from Covid 19 Cabin Fever. A dozen of us zoomed to discuss what we were reading, listening to and watching. And we...
Dinner and Discussion for Older Lesbians - Saturday 1 February 2020 Murder and Mayhem at Haberfield – Exploring Crime Fiction, with Pearlie McNeill Despite this distressing summer of bushfires, tragedies and extreme heat, 22 women found the energy to come to our newly renovated venue, Mervyn Fletcher...
To give this large subject some shape, I decided to divide into stages – very rough cut but it may give an idea of the progression of our very own literature. Stage One: Silence and disaster – Back in the 50s and earlier The landmark book is...
Report on the dinner and discussion event on 6 April 2019 Wendy Pryor, the guest speaker for this event is a long-time member of Ten Forty and is well known to us for her comedic MC work. Following the social chat and eating, Wendy asked the...