This is the latest idea from Water Worn Jewellery. It is woven using faux suede thong and there is an integrated sea glass charm. It is fastened with a clip. This is just a trial piece but we are very excited about the idea. We hope you will too!
The thong would come in a variety of colours and lengths and we are thinking there could be more than one charm on some of the bracelets.
Autumn is well and truly here! Here are the schedules for the next month for each club.
Joys Green: Mondays 10-11am – Clubs as usual right up until Christmas. the only thing to think about is whether there should be a session on 20th December.
Ross on Wye: Mondays 7-8pm – Same as Joys Green, with clubs as usual. Whether we have a session on 20th December is up to students. There is one point. From 11th October I will have to be ending the sessions as promptly on 8pm as possible as I have another engagement to go to afterwards. I will therefore be starting ON TIME (!) if students could try and arrive 5 minutes early it would be a great help.
Woolaston: Tuesdays 7-8pm – The club is a usual with no session on 19th October for the WI, then 16th November. December is a little more complicated but we will get to that later!
As an aside for all clubs, Chinese New Year is on 3rd February 2011. Would students like another meal? If so can anyone suggest somewhere nice in the middle or shall we go back to the great place at Monmouth that we went to last year.
Congratulations to Vivi and Sean for their new little boy Bobby Rae. Isn’t he a sweety.
All our best wishes go out to you guys. xx
What a Cutie!
I have just put all the new stock for my Water Worn Jewellery online. There are some lovely pieces including one which is particularly rare, a double glass necklaces from Hells Mouth beach, 2 of only 4 pieces of glass found all summer.
Please take a look by following the link at the top of the page!
We had a great summer up in North Wales. My Water Worn jewellery went well and seemed to get a good reception, along with Donny’s boards from Still Stoked. We met up with some old friends and made some new ones and Ocean loved the sea!
The beach at Porth Neigwl, Hells Mouth, is so wonderful, nearly 4.5miles of sand and shingle where the sea can be as placid as a lake but it can also live up to it’s name! At low tide there is plenty of room to practice a Tai Chi form or two.
Unfortunately due to the amount in the sea, this beach gets huge loads of plastic and other rubbish brought in on the tides and left by the tourists. It is such a shame and because plastic doesn’t break down like glass or pot it will remain on the sea and in our sands for a very long time. The plastic is easy to spot when it is still in bottle form or lightly broken down but there is a lot more that is unseen within the sand itself and in even smaller pieces; “Recently scientists discovered microscopic pieces of plastic can be found everywhere in the ocean, even inside plankton…” (Hands on Oceanography)
The photo above shows one of the smaller tidal dumps of plastic and other waste.
However, humans do occasionally leave less invasive and distinctly more aesthetically pleasing things behind…
Well unless we are being invaded by Maka Pakas……..
I hope everyone had a good August even if it was maybe not the weather we were expecting. North Wales was as lovely as normal with very little changing up at the top end of Porth Neigwl beach (Abersoch is, of course, a different matter!)
Thanks to (although not the best term to use) Donny spraining his arm, so badly the whole thing has swollen up and so no more surfing for him, we are home early and I have managed to sneak in my last archery lesson. So…
Woolaston – Classes normal time including 14th September. Sorry to mess you around.
All other clubs are business as usual. See you all Monday or Tuesday!
Just a few reiterations and changes for after the summer:
Classes start on the week beginning 6th September.
I am asking Woolaston students for one last late session, as I had to miss one of my archery classes due to the weather. So this will be 14th September at 8-9pm as before. anyone who needs a lift either to the session or back, as it will be dark then, please let me know as I will happily do so.
There will be no session on 21st at Woolaston for the normal third in the month.
The rest of the year currently stands at normal sessions, but we will get the summer over before thinking about the winter!!
Thanks to all for all your hard work, everyone is doing wonderfully at the forms and Qigong. Have a great August and I will see you all in September (maybe even with a tan….. we shall see!)
Sorry for the delay in getting this published, but here are the class dates for the coming months.
Joys Green – Normal classes will be running with the last class being 2nd August. The first class back after summer is 6th September and then classes run as normal again.
Ross on Wye – Basically the same as Joys Green, classes are running as normal up until (and including) 2nd August and we are back again on 6th September
Woolaston – There is the usual third week in the month with no class on 20th July and then classes on 27th July and 3rd August are both late sessions running from 8pm to 9pm. The 3rd August is looking a little bit uncertain at the moment as to how many students can make it. After summer the classes start back on 7th September and there will be no class on 21st of that month as per usual. I am not expecting to have to do any further late classes, but this will depend on the weather between now and August!
A Gentle Nudge – I realise that it is summer and that the evenings are long and warm and it therefore maybe easier to fill them with other things. Please, if you can not make it to your session, contact me and let me know so I can judge accordingly. If you do not have my contact details, ask and they shall be given.
A strange question for a Tai chi website, maybe. But I think it is really important to know and care about things that are going on. My passion is the sea (anyone who knows my son might have guessed that), I studied Marine Biology at university and go to the sea whenever possible. I have long heard about the oceans being overfished but it was the film “End of the line” that really brought it into perspective and I can’t recommend strongly enough that EVERYONE should watch this film.
The film looks into all the facts about our worldwide fishing industry and how we are bringing into free-fall so many species of fish that it is estimated that if nothing changes we will RUN OUT of fish in 40 odd years. That means down to eating jellyfish and chips or maybe plankton burgers?!? Some of the fishing facts are scary for example the length of line put out each year by long line fisheries is estimated to be able to go 500 times round the planet! Governments pay out 15 billion dollars a year to subsidise fishing and so encouraging over fishing.
I can’t sit back and do nothing and in this case there is something really simple to do and in the words of the film:
Ask before you buy – Only eat sustainable seafood – look for the MSC logo on your packs of fish
Tell politicians – respect the science and cut the fishing fleet
Join the campaign for protected seas – check out The End of the Line website and also The Marine Conservation Society and their off shoot with the Cooperative – Your Seas Your Voice campaign
It doesn’t take long, it doesn’t cost anything and it could make all the difference. To paraphrase Charles Clover, investigative reporter, when all else has gone wrong and global warming has meant we can’t produce enough food to feed us on land, we are squandering our most precious resource we have – wild fish.
Thanks to everyone who have put in lots and lots of hard work over the last few months, you are all coming on brilliantly!
31st May 2010 – BANK HOLIDAY – There is no session at Joys Green. I am waiting to hear back from students as to a session at Ross, I will keep you all posted.
1st June – Woolaston Club, as you mostly all know I am partaking in a archery course with The Bowmen of Dean, and need to get my sessions in. After talking to several of you it was suggested that students would be happy to have a late session on a few occasions to allow me to get in my course. I would like to pencil this session in as one of those. Times will be 8pm – 9pm, though don’t go away if I am not there early, please hang around, I WILL come!
15th June – Woolaston Club, no session for the normal 3rd in the month.
29th June – Woolaston Club, I would like to pencil this session in as another late session, if this suits. Times will be 8pm – 9pm, though don’t go away if I am not there early, please hang around, I WILL come!
