Aaargh! Late again. What's my excuse this time? You'd never believe me if I told you. Well, you probably would actually - but enough of that. To business!
The Next Two Moots
We need you to bring your brain to the Moot on Tuesday 12th January, because we'll be playing some Psychic Games. We haven't decided exactly what they'll all be yet, so please feel free to think of one or two of your own. And just so we all know, giggling is good for telepathy!
Bridget will be taking over on Tuesday 12th February, with a talk (and maybe a bit more) about the festival of Purim and the Book of Esther. "But they're Jewish!", I hear you cry. Wanna bet?
The rest of our Moot dates are free now. So if you want to do one or request something, now is the time to ask. In fact, please ask - or we've got think stuff up ourselves!
Coming Up
We've suddenly found a stack of stuff going on in December and January. I'm not going to put a lot of links and things up this time. If you're interested, ask - and all shall be revealed (actresses and bishops are springing to mind for some reason!)
Friday 11th Dec - A Horned God Ritual in Borsdane Woods (I know that's today. Sorry!)
Saturday 12th Dec - A pot-luck Yule supper bring-along at Mel and Nick's house.
Friday 18th Dec - A Solstice ritual at Sentry Circle near Allerton.
Sunday 20th Dec - Yule open rituals by Shared Earth in Preston, and Pan Tavern in Chorley.
Saturday 16th Jan - We'll be Wassailing our apple trees. Please come along with a hat and apple-based produce
Friday 22nd Jan - (Assuming I've got the date right) A trip to Ara to celebrate your host's second 22nd birthday, slightly early. It's also Spikey's birthday the day before, so cards at the ready!
Monday 25th Jan - Clarian Faeries in Westhoughton are starting their own moot. You'll be able to say "I was there. . ."
Saturday 6th Feb - The Marsden ImBolg Fire Festival. More on that closer to the time.
News
Finally a little news
The bad news first: The Bolton Moot will be closed for January and February. Our lovely hostess, Michelle Screechowl is going into hospital for a rather serious operation very soon and is going to be out of action for quite some time. All being well the Moot will re-open in March, but until then we can send nice thoughts her way as often as possible.
The good news: Well, it's not good that he's gone away, but it's good for him. The lovely Jonny (ex of New Aeon Books) has managed to wangle himself a job at the British Library and consequently has just moved to London. Congratulations!
And that'll do for now. Have a wondrous Yule, stay warm (unlike my hands at the moment) and we'll see y'all in January.
Love and hot drinks,
Seán
Friday, 11 December 2009
Thursday, 12 November 2009
November Announcements
Hello and here's hoping everyone is recovering from Samhain. Thank you to everyone who came on Tuesday and read/told/was press-ganged into reading a story. Much fun was had by all.
Before I start on the announcements properly I'd like to mention that we've acquired a large collection of boxes, tubs and bowls (and one tea towel) over the last few months of moots and parties. So if they're yours (Nadia!) please come and take them home. Ta.
The Next Two Moots.
Next month's moot on the 8th December will be our Annual Quiz. Please bring five questions on your chosen topic. Don't make them terribly hard please - it's all in fun.
The idea is that we go around the room in turn asking our five questions and answering everyone else's. Then we go round giving the answers, one point each. Whoever gets the highest score wins a bottle of our home-brew (insert traditional joke about 2 bottles here . . . )
On Tuesday 12th January we'll be having a night of Psychic games. We have a small collection of such games but please feel free to bring ideas of your own.
Next year's calendars are made, so if you've asked to chair a moot etc. now's the time to remind me what and when. Especially if I had a glass of wine in my hand when you asked me!
Coming Up
It seems that we're hunkering down to hibernate for the winter so we've only got the one announcement this month, which is our trip to ARA on Friday 27th November. It'll cost you a fiver to get in, bring your own booze. As this is Bridget's coming-back-out party please do come along show her how we all love and appreciate her - even if she can be bloody hard work sometimes!
If you've got anything to announce please do add it to the comments.
There's also a new website I'd like to make everybody aware of. It's for Pagans in the North West and across the rest of the country to get in touch and announce their doings. And it's completely free too.
It's called Pan Tavern, created by our new friend Tia and it definitely deserves some patronage. Go on, you know you want to!
See y'all soon.
Love,
Seán
Before I start on the announcements properly I'd like to mention that we've acquired a large collection of boxes, tubs and bowls (and one tea towel) over the last few months of moots and parties. So if they're yours (Nadia!) please come and take them home. Ta.
The Next Two Moots.
Next month's moot on the 8th December will be our Annual Quiz. Please bring five questions on your chosen topic. Don't make them terribly hard please - it's all in fun.
The idea is that we go around the room in turn asking our five questions and answering everyone else's. Then we go round giving the answers, one point each. Whoever gets the highest score wins a bottle of our home-brew (insert traditional joke about 2 bottles here . . . )
On Tuesday 12th January we'll be having a night of Psychic games. We have a small collection of such games but please feel free to bring ideas of your own.
Next year's calendars are made, so if you've asked to chair a moot etc. now's the time to remind me what and when. Especially if I had a glass of wine in my hand when you asked me!
Coming Up
It seems that we're hunkering down to hibernate for the winter so we've only got the one announcement this month, which is our trip to ARA on Friday 27th November. It'll cost you a fiver to get in, bring your own booze. As this is Bridget's coming-back-out party please do come along show her how we all love and appreciate her - even if she can be bloody hard work sometimes!
If you've got anything to announce please do add it to the comments.
There's also a new website I'd like to make everybody aware of. It's for Pagans in the North West and across the rest of the country to get in touch and announce their doings. And it's completely free too.
It's called Pan Tavern, created by our new friend Tia and it definitely deserves some patronage. Go on, you know you want to!
See y'all soon.
Love,
Seán
Friday, 16 October 2009
October Announcements
A little overdue (like my library books were), but we get there in the end!
The Next Two Moots
Tuesday 10th November will see the our annual storytelling moot. Please bring a story, preferably with some vague relationship to Paganism and no more than about ten minutes in the telling. After that, go nuts! Write your own, or bring something profound/silly/sad/jolly. Whatever you want. Mr. Men books are deeply occult and therefore completely acceptable.
On Tues 8th December will be our annual quiz. We've decided to do the 5-questions-each thing again this year, so have a think about what you want your subject to be and let us all know. That way we can avoid clashes and repeated questions.
Also: We have calenders ready for the new year now. So, if you'd wanted to book yourself a moot for February onwards tell me again and I'll write it down. Ta!
Coming Up
Saturday 17th October (tomorrow) appears to be the busiest day of the year so far! Take your pick from these:
The Paddle Festival at Burrs Country Park in Bury goes from 10am. Normally I wouldn't push sports activities much but ours gorgeous, brainy and extremely talented friend Clairey Fairey will be teaching hoops (free) and poi (£5 but you get to keep the poi).
At the Man & Scythe in Bolton, the 7th Earl of Derby will be having his head cut off - a day out for the whole family! It's a historical celebration going right back to Bolton's events in the English Civil War. I don't have a proper time for this but there are contact details here.
That evening there's a chance, if you fancy it, to meet the Horned God himself. Hopefully Old Horny will be making an appearance at Borsdane Woods in Hindley, near Wigan. It's an evening of discussions, meditation, ritual and (of course) a visit to the pub. It all starts at 7:45pm, meeting here. For any further information contact this gentleman. Take something warm to wear!
Finally something's happening at Manchester Monastery in Gorton that day too. If anyone can remember what it is please could they tell us!
Sunday 18th October has a Gift and Craft Fair at Reebok Stadium in Horwich, featuring our marvellous friends at Clarian Faeries. It's £2 each but accompanied kids go free.
On Saturday 24th October there's a Mind, Body Spirit open day at Westhoughton Community Learning Centre. I don't really know a lot about this and apparently there are too places wiith that name, so if you know more than me please tell us!
Woohoo! Our annual Samhain Party will be on Friday 30th October, 8pm onwards at our house. The theme is Harry Potter. Ah, drunken debauchery! Whatever next? If you can't make it home we can put a few people up on air beds and sleeping bags in the living room. But be warned - we will make you help with the cleaning up the next day.
Hope to see y'all there!
Mel and Nick are having a post-Hallowe'en Rocky Horror do at their place in Westhoughton on Friday 7th November. If dressing up kinky if your cup of tea, send us your contact details and we'll pass them on to the lovely hosts.
Finally, on Friday 27th November we WILL be going to ARA. There's a special reason for this too - it's the coming back out party for our superb friend Bridget. If you don't know who that is, you'll find out by being there!
That's it!
See you all soon I hope.
Love,
Seán
The Next Two Moots
Tuesday 10th November will see the our annual storytelling moot. Please bring a story, preferably with some vague relationship to Paganism and no more than about ten minutes in the telling. After that, go nuts! Write your own, or bring something profound/silly/sad/jolly. Whatever you want. Mr. Men books are deeply occult and therefore completely acceptable.
On Tues 8th December will be our annual quiz. We've decided to do the 5-questions-each thing again this year, so have a think about what you want your subject to be and let us all know. That way we can avoid clashes and repeated questions.
Also: We have calenders ready for the new year now. So, if you'd wanted to book yourself a moot for February onwards tell me again and I'll write it down. Ta!
Coming Up
Saturday 17th October (tomorrow) appears to be the busiest day of the year so far! Take your pick from these:
The Paddle Festival at Burrs Country Park in Bury goes from 10am. Normally I wouldn't push sports activities much but ours gorgeous, brainy and extremely talented friend Clairey Fairey will be teaching hoops (free) and poi (£5 but you get to keep the poi).
At the Man & Scythe in Bolton, the 7th Earl of Derby will be having his head cut off - a day out for the whole family! It's a historical celebration going right back to Bolton's events in the English Civil War. I don't have a proper time for this but there are contact details here.
That evening there's a chance, if you fancy it, to meet the Horned God himself. Hopefully Old Horny will be making an appearance at Borsdane Woods in Hindley, near Wigan. It's an evening of discussions, meditation, ritual and (of course) a visit to the pub. It all starts at 7:45pm, meeting here. For any further information contact this gentleman. Take something warm to wear!
Finally something's happening at Manchester Monastery in Gorton that day too. If anyone can remember what it is please could they tell us!
Sunday 18th October has a Gift and Craft Fair at Reebok Stadium in Horwich, featuring our marvellous friends at Clarian Faeries. It's £2 each but accompanied kids go free.
On Saturday 24th October there's a Mind, Body Spirit open day at Westhoughton Community Learning Centre. I don't really know a lot about this and apparently there are too places wiith that name, so if you know more than me please tell us!
Woohoo! Our annual Samhain Party will be on Friday 30th October, 8pm onwards at our house. The theme is Harry Potter. Ah, drunken debauchery! Whatever next? If you can't make it home we can put a few people up on air beds and sleeping bags in the living room. But be warned - we will make you help with the cleaning up the next day.
Hope to see y'all there!
Mel and Nick are having a post-Hallowe'en Rocky Horror do at their place in Westhoughton on Friday 7th November. If dressing up kinky if your cup of tea, send us your contact details and we'll pass them on to the lovely hosts.
Finally, on Friday 27th November we WILL be going to ARA. There's a special reason for this too - it's the coming back out party for our superb friend Bridget. If you don't know who that is, you'll find out by being there!
That's it!
See you all soon I hope.
Love,
Seán
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