December Announcements

Good Morning y'all and I hope everyone's recovering from their various lurgies. Is there anyone (apart from Rowan) who isn't ill at the moment? It's an epidemic I tells ya!

Anyway, last night's quiz went rather well, with the fascinating addition of picture rounds courtesy of Womble and Spike. The winner was the amazing Gillian/Sara gestalt (because Sara had completely lost the power of speech last night)

Here is the news - bong!

The next two moots will be:
On 13th Jan we'll be having a pot-luck games night. Please bring a game or a suggest one and we'll vote and play the favourite(s). Naked Twister with baby oil has already been vetoed. (boo! Shame!)

On 10th Feb Daniel will be taking over with a talk/discussion entitled "Reality Bomb". Don't ask me, I don't know either, but I'm fascinated.


Some other things:

As well as being Yule day, 21st Dec is also Global Orgasm Day! I think this is fantastic, it's sex magick on a worldwide scale. The idea is for as many people as possible across the whole world to have an orgasm at exactly the same time thus providing a massive release of positive, joyous energy into the world in one big pulse!
You can find out more here. Unfortunately it's timed between 11am and 1pm GMT, which is a bit awkward, but if your timing's slightly off, well never mind. Every little helps and it's hardly a chore!

We will be having our Wassail party on Sat 17th Jan. For those who've never done this, we bless the apple trees by spraying them with cider and chanting a daft poem. And then we've got to drink lots more cider (No really, it's the law.). Don't forget your hat!

Fri 23rd January will be Seánie's birthday trip to ARA. Please do come along and help me goth it up and pretend I'm young and skinny again! Here's a link to ARA for anyone who doesn't know about it yet.


Some future plans

The March moot has been claimed by Bridget, but after that we're clear until November and open to suggestions. If you want to take over a Moot, or request something particular, please tell us and we'll see what we can get organised.

On that subject, we're considering a couple ourselves: a music night and a poetry night. The poetry Moot would be a bring-your-own, rather than bring-a-favourite.
The thinking behind the music Moot is that we get the musicians amongst us to do a short talk or demo about their particular thing (drums, songwriting, classical violin, folk music, world flutes etc) and then see if we can do a whole group jam session. The neighbours don't like us anyway.

I'm also considering a local history field trip to Radcliffe Tower and its environs. This would happen during the day, one weekend vaguely around Bealtaine.

The response last night was positive for these ideas, but we still want to know what you think or if you have any ideas of your own. Ah, go on. You know you want to!

And finally

Womble is considering a trip to the Clun Green Man Festival, and would like to see if we can do it en masse - sharing cars and suchlike. Have a look at it here and let us know what you think.

I think that's it - hoorah! If we don't see you before then have an excellent Yule and an even better New Year and we'll see you in January.

Love,
Seán

December Quiz Heads-Up!

Hi Everybody,

I've decided to base my quiz questions this year on the Cretan demi-goddess, Ariadne.
That's her in this excellent picture by Chaz Truog.

Normally I wouldn't bother to warn people, but in this case there's going to be one person who'll have an serious advantage.

Fair's fair, after all. We want someone else to win our wine!

Love,
Seán

November Announcements

Firstly - thanks to everyone who brought a story to share last night, we had an interesting and eclectic mix as always!


The Next Few Moots

Tuesday 9th December will be our annual quiz. Bring along 5 questions on your pet topic (vaguely Pagan-related please) - with answers. One point will be awarded for each correct answer and the winner will get a bottle of our (in)famous homebrewed wine. Standing joke - the loser gets two bottles, har-de-har har.

Tuesday 13th January will be a games moot. In the past we've had Therapy, Scruples and Revelations (an astrology based game) If you have any suggestions for a game to play please let us know. Don't worry guys and gals, I've already vetoed Twister with Baby Oil.

February's Moot (10th Feb) has been claimed by Daniel, and the topic is Reality Bomb!

March's Moot (10th March) has been claimed by Bridget, for a talk on the feast of Esther and Purim.


Other Stuff

Saturday 29th November - Helen's birthday party. for details, please get in touch with Daniel & Helen, or contact us and we'll pass your number on to them.

Monday 1st December will be the Pagan Wheel Moot's Annual Quiz (we nicked the idea from them!) The Pagan Wheel Moot is held at the Waldorf pub on Gore Street, Manchester from 8pm

Friday 14th November: Our very own Rapunzel's folk band Twa Corbies will be on the radio! They're on Oldham Community Radio on their sounds of folk programme at 7pm, tune in (99.7FM) or listen online.

Also, there will be a folk music club starting up in January at the Railway pub in Bromley Cross - they'll be featuring some big name artists each month, including Martin McCarthy in June.

From Saturday 15th November there will be a photo exhibition of Industrial Landscapes at the Lowry - entry is free


And finally

Congratulations to our beloved Joanna & Paul on the birth of their baby girl on 31 October - a very auspicious date indeed!

Love to all
Sara & Seán