Colin Simson all day Demo

Today Saturday 21st July we had an all day demo by Colin Simpson.This demo day with Colin was arranged many months ago and although I had seen Colin demo on quite a few occasions most of our members had not.We discussed with Colin the sort of demo he would do for us and I told him that most of our members were novice turners.Colin said he would do a demo that would cater for all tastes and all skill levels and that is exactly what he did.Throughout the day Colin's easy relaxed manor went down really well with the members and everything he did was explained in simple language so that everybody could learn form him.Colin worked throughout the day showing many techniques rather than wasting time producing finished pieces.This went down really well and everybody enjoyed it and got really involved by constantly asking questions Every question was answered and Colin is obviously very knowledgeable about his subject.We stopped for lunch and a couple of tea breaks throughout the day and it was a very relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere.My wife Sue prepared all the food the day before and we had a wonderful spread of jacket potatoes chili, salad and much more.
This was our first ever all day demo but certainly not our last as it was a great success.
Below are some pics from the day.

Thank you Colin for a great demo.
Thank you Sue for your support and a wonderful spread of food.

George Foweraker, Chairman

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First new year meeting of 2012.

Hi all.
On Tuesday the 31St of January we had our first meeting of the year.In spite of the bitter cold we had a very good turn out.
Being a new year we had a lot to discuss and a lot of things to get through.
Sue and I made an early start to set up our new Camera and projector system which worked a treat thanks to help from John Brewer who helped me sort thing out earlier in the week.Thanks John. Later in the evening one of our members Colin Stroud showed us how to make a nice box from a piece of Ash .Everybody enjoyed Colin's teaching demo which is good as next month our project to make is a box.
We have decided that every other month we will be having hands on and alternate months will be teaching demo's.
We will be sorting out a program for the new year soon to include a full day demo from Colin Simpson and later in the year a barbecue.
We are going to keep on  having our monthly tuition meetings in my workshop as they were very popular last year.
Nearly everybody has paid their subs for the new year inc a couple of new members.