50,000 hits

For anybody interested, the blog has now had 50,000 hits since I started logging visitors.
It would be good to boast that these are all different people........... but there not.
40k of them are probably Les- he doesn't do much with his days!!

March Meeting- Speaker -John Armitage

An enthralled audience

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......a strange sort of instruction!

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John hard at work 'bending'.

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Wednesday get together was for me an amazing evening for the way John Armitage- presented the Moving Trees Forward Session, the time just seem to flash by as he was so informative at what he was doing and demonstrated by working on at least 3 or 4 members Bonsai Trees with the odd wise-crack during the demo.

John being Chairman of the British Shohin Association and winner of countless prestigious Awards for his Bonsai Trees, had all the members enthralled in the session plus the The Lady who was serving from the Bar popped her head round the door to listen and see what John was doing with the Trees!

The Society enjoyed success At Swindon-District-Bonsai-Winter-Show-2011 and a selection of W-B-S Images can be seen at the two sites below:

http://bonsai-passion.co.uk/2011/02/20/swindon-district-bonsai-winter-show-2011

http://ibonsaiclub.forumotion.com/t5694-2011-9th-swindon-winter-image-show-pictures

Jim Thelad

Tree of the Month- March

This months T-O-T-M was Prunus Incisa KoJo-No-Mai belonged to Andy H and selected by Mr John Armitage

January Meeting- AGM

The AGM......

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....& a possible side effect!!

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Simon Temblett visited.... but didn't put himself forward for any committee position!

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Simon and 'team' evaluate Dee's larch group.

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The AGM was well attended with some new members joining so that was great news.

It was a Good AGM with the old committee being re-elected and the members thanked the committee for all their hard work during the past year and it was unanimous that they should remain in post. Also 3 other members were elected to the committee And Doug M Volunteered Mrs M to be Secretary which was accepted.

Simon T visited the club and was on hand to give expert advice on a larch group which Dee was seeking help with and it attracted a few members listening to what Simon had to say and chip in with their opinions

There,s a few interesting things that was put forward to help move the club forward and Dave Y made some solid suggestion and if all goes well 2011 should see members improving their knowledge and their Bonsai Trees with a more hands on approach at we all hope with more workshops between W-B-S and V-O-C-B-S but Dave Y will fill you in with more on that
It was another good night at the society with the Committee looking to take the club forward and made many good suggestion as how to improve our standing in the World of Bonsai in the UK or even further

The members were enthusiastic and got involved in the discussions and agree help the committee in their effect to do so and the Vice Chair Reminded the Members It a Members club and not just for the same ones getting involved all the time.

(Apologies for not posting earlier, I didn't realise it hadn't been posted!

Iain)

SoTM-Walter Pall videos

For those with good bandwidth this months site is that of walter Pall and includes many videos of his travels and exploits in the bonsai world.


http://walter-pall-videos.blogspot.com/

New Diary Dates and Guests

Below are 'hot of the press' enhancements to the club diary.

• Next meetings talk is to be given by John Armitage and not Pete warren as billed. The subject is the same......moving your trees on.


• May 11th we have Paul Goff giving us a talk on presentation. He will photograph up to 25 club members trees on the night.


• The Gordale workshop, last sunday in August, we have booked Steve Tolley. He will work with anybody (brave?) who brings a tree along.
  Cheers

Dougie

Happy Birthday to 'Blog' -Again