22nd Aug 06 Tuesday

Rang the West Cork Beekeepers Association. Unfortunately the meeting of the Beekeeper Association doesn’t start up again until the end of October so I wont get to meet them. They organize lectures and presentations (usually in spring) on beekeeping. West Cork Beekeepers Association, Throughout West Cork, John Bryan,secretary, 023 49625

Dropped into Skibbereen Sports Centre where there host lot of different activities; Kickboxing, Tae Kwan Do, Basketball Club, Aerobics, Badminton, Table Tennis, Gymnastics for starters unfortunately for me the majority don’t start back up again until October. I’m going to try contact the Table Tennis guy though as he might be starting in September. The activities are run by trainers using the facilities for the Sports Centre rather than organized by the sports center themselves but if you are interested in one you can ask them for the trainers contact details or go the center and purvey the posters for all that is on offer!

I went into the Busy Pin Cushion Shop (wool ribbon thread, needles etc) and had a chat with the lady their about craft clubs. She didn’t know any running at the moment she said she had run a crochet evening but it had died out – sighting busy lives and people (women for it was all women in the group) found it difficult to find an evening that would suit them all or that they could commit too. On the upside she said a lot of people bought wool last year to knit Christmas gifts. So there is still the interest out there is just the getting together that is sometimes difficult. She was a really lovely lady I hope I find some reason (a craft group!) to go back and buy something from her.