Saturday, November 29, 2008

2008 meeting of Friends of the Museum of Witchcraft

Next weekend is the date for the 2008 Friends meeting. Speakers will be Joyce Froome who is the museum's historian, and the ever popular & interesting Professor Ron Hutton. It will be held at The Wellington Hotel on Saturday 6 Dec & drinks will be had at The Wellington on the evening of Friday 5th. Anyone who needs information should contact houseoftheoldways@talktalk.net . Hope to see some of you there & I may have some fab photos of the 'do' next week.

Notice of Devon, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Pagan Federation Conference 2009

greetings all
just wanted to give a note about next year's Devon, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly PF Conference which will be held on 7 March 2009 at Penstowe Manor, Bude.
The itinerary is as follows:

Friday night (6th March) Quiz and social.
Saturday speakers :
Rae Beth: The Green Hedgewitch
Merv Davey: Devosow Dons Kernow / Ritual Dance of Cornwall
Prudence Jones: The Goddess and the Grail
Damh the Bard: The Awen and Inspiration
Piper: Merv Davey
Competition: Come as a ‘Familiar spirit’!
Saturday night: music and dancing with :
Damh the Bard followed by
DJ Graham Barter: Uplifting & inspiring music.
Tickets: PF members £15, non members £18 available by post or PayPal.
Send SSAE for return of ticket/s with cheque/P.O. made payable to
‘Pagan Federation Devon & Cornwall’. Please include
membership number/s of PF members & names of guests.
Pagan Federation Devon, Cornwall & Channel Isles
(Regional Conference).
PO Box 314, Exeter, Devon, EX4 6YR
Available online: www.paganfederationdevonandcornwall.co.uk
Chalet accommodation and special rates available.
Telephone: 01288 321354
Sponsored by
The Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle

Monday, November 03, 2008

Closed for Winter

Well we had our last day of trading for 2008 yesterday. Business was swift right up to the end of the day despite Joyce freezing in the booth. There was an extremely cold wind whizzing through the front door!! We are hoping to have some building work done on the roof while we're closed - fingers crossed the builders will be available.

Magazines R Us

We've been massively busy over the last few days as we've had a donation of masses of boxes of pagan/witchcraft magazines mainly dating from the 80s and 90s. It's a great collection & thank you to the donor. We're a little daunted as to where they'll all go as we're quickly running out of library shelf space. Graham is ordering more shelves & boxes so we can get them out & then there will be the job of cataloguing. It has been agreed with the donor that any duplicates will be donated elsewhere or sold to raise funds for the library. Thanks also to Liz & Nigel who helped with sorting the magazines on the weekend!