Update - HELP!

Firebug needed - apply within.

Hi All.
Due to a slight miscalculation on our part we've realised that our costumes are going to make it all but impossible for us to light and maintain the Samhain bonfire. Oops!

Consequently we're looking for someone to be the official Party Pyromaniac, which might mean coming a little earlier to get it going and then keeping it fed throughout the night.

Could anyone who wants the job please apply in writing, blog comment, email, text message, phone call, MySpace message, Facebook message, talking drum, psychic vibration or just plain tell us.

In return we'll love you forever, give you food and drinks - and you get to play with fire!

Thanks!

Love,
Seán

October Announcements.

Sorry I'm a tad tardy with this update, boys and girls (and all stages in between). Not been too well don'cha know. Anyway:

The Next Two Moots:
Our annual storytelling Moot will be held on Tu 11th November.
For those who've never done this before the premise is very simple - bring a story! It can be someone else's or one you've written yourself, it can be well known or obscure, it can be modern or incredibly ancient. All we ask is that it takes no more than ten minutes in the telling and that it's vaguely Pagan-related.

Our annual quiz will be on Tu 9th Dec this year. This is how it works:
Everybody needs to bring five questions on their pet topic (with five answers, duh!). We then go around the room in turn asking our questions and answering everyone else's. When we've done that we go around again giving the answers and checking our own.
One point per correct answer, the winner gets a bottle of our home-brewed wine! (Trad joke, "Second prize - two bottles!" Hoho!)

Other Stuff
Our pal Andrea is having her housewarming party on Sat 25th October. Anyone who hasn't had their invite and wants to go and marvel at how young her boyfriend looks should contact us and we'll pass the message on.

Our own SAMHAIN FANCY-DRESS PARTY is on Saturday 1st November. The theme is Myths and Legends, which gives you plenty to work on. Be there or be square, and here's a teaser for encouragement - the details of Sara's costume are a state secret, but I can tell you all now: it's exceptional! Really. I mean it. I mean, mine's pretty good but her's is just. . .

On Monday 3rd Nov, our chum Martin Singer will be giving a talk on Odinism at the Pagan Wheel in Manchester. It's from 8pm at the Waldorf on Gore Street, near Piccadilly. There's a nominal charge for the room so please take a little extra cash.

Our friend Anne, the "Lawyer Girl", is having a fireworks party at her house on Sat 8th Nov, anytime from 5pm until people go home. Again, if your invitation has somehow not got to you, contact us and we'll pass on the message.

And now my favourite subject, bare naked ladies! The Coven in Wigan is producing a Witchy Nude Calendar to sell in the shop. The photo shoot will be during the day on Sun 9th Nov. Contact the Coven for more information. Sorry boys, it's a girls-only do (at least at the moment).

And Some Advanced Notices
On Sat 29th Nov our small-and-perfectly formed friend Helen the Audio Pixie will be having her birthday party. I'm far too much of a gentleman to say which birthday, but I do believe it's one of those milestone ones. The venue is Daniel and Helen's house. Bring an instrument! (Trust me, I forgot at the last do - never again!)

Finally, Jonathan (sp?) has told us that the Pagan Wheel's annual quiz will be on Monday 1st Dec, venue as above. He says that he's writing the questions himself this year, but he promises to be nice!

And, unless I'm less than my usual perfect self who never, ever makes mistakes or forgets things, th-th-th-th-that's all folks!

Love and inconvenient thespianism,
Seán

September Announcements

Good morning everybody, and thank you to Bridget for an enlightening and sometimes controversial talk on sexual and gender attitudes in Paganism and the wider society. I particularly liked the little penis on legs (you had to be there!).

Anyway, here are the Announcements for September:

The Next Two Moots

Tues 14th Oct will be taken by our own hostess and all-round wonder woman, Sara (Losing the Thread). She'll be having us all decorating candles (and yes, Spike, you can light them!)

Tues 11th Nov will be our annual storytelling moot. For those who've never done this before it's pretty straightforward - you bring a story! Any story will do, be it myth, fiction, personal history, Mr Men - whatever. Please keep it to a maximum of ten minutes, though, so everyone gets a chance.

Forthcoming Events

We will be holding our annual Bramble Ramble on Sat 13th Sep this year. We'll be doing a longish walk to Springwater Park, picking blackberries (or whatever else you may fancy) on the way. We'll have a teatime picnic in the park and then come back here for a civilised evening of drinkies and nibbles. Meet up at our house at 3pm and bring decent shoes - it's a fair walk.

Daniel (Astral Pilgrim) and Helen (Audio Pixie) will be hosting their Equinox party on Sat 20th Sep, from about 8-ish pm at their house. The theme is Come As You Were, so if you can still fit that New Romantic shirt, or (dare I say it?) shell suit, you've got it sussed. Please contact D&H yourself for details or, if you can't, contact us and we'll put you in touch.

Also thanks to Womble (Womble's Rants) for this: there's a folk night (normally a join-in-where-you-can type) every Friday night at the Full Circle Folk Club, in the Parkside Hotel in Prestwich (on Bury New Road facing Heaton Park). Feeling musical? That's the place to be.
(I must have missed my vocation, should have been an advertising exec.)

Looking Ahead

Our annual Samhain party is coming up. It will be on Saturday 1st November, and this year's theme is Myth and Legend. Interpret that how you will - the more imagination the better. I wonder if anyone's brave enough to come as the Roman Diana - at least the costume would be cheap!

Finally.

As a slight aside, if anyone has a stand-alone electric cooker going begging please let us know. Or alternatively, Womble or Spike (Spike's Mutterings). It's not for us, it's for Spike who's in a new flat with nowt to cook on. It's just not the same, living on jam butties!

And definitely lastly! Alan made an announcement towards the end of last night, but I'd had several glasses of plonk by then and I can't remember what he said (This is why we write things down, Seán, you dozy winesack!). As soon as I find out I'll update us, unless you know and can tell me.

Love,
Seán

P.S.
It's like a remake of Airplane! Did you have the guacamole? Emrys did and he doesn't feel terribly well right now. Not well at all!

"There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? "