Our new strategies for conversation have included -

• talking about what we have been doing in the past week.
• 'picking subjects out of the bag'. Members have written various topics on pieces of paper.
• Working in pairs using the 'Brainbox' cards.
• Speaking about celebrations and catastrophic events in our lives.
• Speaking about our signature dishes.
• Favourite place, garden, journey or whatever.
• A shopping game, where each person has to say something from a supermarket beginning with the next letter of the alphabet and also repeat everything already said eg Abricots, Bananes, Chou fleur, Dinde etc. This caused much hilarity.