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Newsletter August - September  2007

September 6th meeting, This will be a talk by Craig and David Howley of the Gloucester Paranormal Research Group about their work looking into paranormal activity in various places round the country and will be of great interest to all and especially myself as I like this sort of thing. Fee £2.00 on the door

October 4th meeting Ann Lodygowski will be talking about Dowsing and Healing  Horses and other animals which will be of great interest to many members for those of you with animals she would like each of you to bring some of your pet's hair or some horse tail or mane to dowse with, Fee £2.00 on the door.

The Christmas dinner is at Aston Ingham Village Hall on Thursday 6th

December. The tickets will be on sale at our October meeting tickets around the £15 mark. Please make a note in your diaries and bring your cheque books. 

The Treacle Mines of Trellech

  About thirteen members visited Trellech on a warm summers evening during our summer recess from normal meetings, this time we felt we were not welcome in the church, the former dowsing friendly vicar must have moved away, but we started in the churchyard where there is a preaching cross and also a large flat “altar” with curious markings where many members detected strange energies. From here we moved on to the old castle mott where we were welcome, passing a barn that might have old standing stones, or possible roman ones holding up the open front of the barn, energy lines and centres were all around the castle tump, some of which certain members found unpleasant, Owain Glendower and the Black death did a lot of harm to Trellech which used to be the second largest town in Wales, and is now a mere village, our next dowsing destination was the site where the Harold Stones stand these megaliths, which are conglomerate stand at odd angles and give off strange energies which many people detect as a spiral, there was then a split in the party as some went off to the pub and some to a healing well, still much used as the ribbons and small gifts tied in the trees around testified, we all then retired to the pub. Unfortunately we did not find the treacle mine.

AGM and next years committee

We will soon be having the Annual General Meeting when we will lose half the Committee, we must have replacements or the club will start to die, we have a large membership and I am sure some of you could spare a few evenings a year to ensure that this very interesting club will continue to exist and to thrive, we need new blood.

Pershore Abbey Saturday 15th September

We will be having a return trip to Pershore Abbey Rob Gillmor will be taking this  and running the afternoon visit please meet outside the Abbey at 2.00 pm. once again it is a lovely town to visit plenty of parking and places for tea afterwards. 

St Briavels

  This was a revisit to a field in the parish of St Briavels and to which the landowner made us welcome, we had a poor turn out which was a pity as some of the investigative work was very scientific, not only were experienced dowsers such as Rob Campbell, Glan Jones and Rex Brice dowsing but they were also measuring what they found, mapping it and then committing it to paper, in a proper systematic manner.

In addition one area that we thought was particularly promising was being checked very accurately on a metre grid system with ground resistivity instruments, which was then fed into a computer and positioned by theodolite and GPS. there was a lot to see and some of our newer members have missed a great chance to see archeological dowsing done properly.

Christmas Dinner

We will soon be asking for names for the Christmas Dinner, a different simpler system this year, numbered tickets will be issued and these numbers will be used for the draw as there were justifiable complaints last year that people were paying twice by being asked for prizes and then having to buy tickets, not really fair. The meal will be at the Hall and catering will be  as last year by rumbletums of Ross. Glan will be providing a quiz, I hope I do better this time.