Lisa, our First Aid Officer, has put a couple of dates in the calendar to teach the use of our defibrillator!
I'm sure everyone has seen it on the wall but i doubt you know how to use it, so please sign up to these really worthwhile events!
Tuesday 8th October at 7pm
Tuesday 15th October at 7pm
Spooky season is creeping up on us which means one thing, Halloween!
Ones again we’re be doing a Halloween paddle, For more information please see the event and sign up here
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Cranbrook swimming pool has had to cancel this months pool session. A bit apocalyptic but we will have to wait to re-enact the Ride of the Valkyries!
On August 15th, 1979, Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal Vietnam movie Apocalypse Now opened in theatres. We’ll be recreating one of its iconic scenes at this month’s pool session by strapping speakers to our kayaks and blasting out Ride of the Valkyries. Here’s a reminder if you haven’t seen it for a while - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqtehtSB0LI
I have uploaded the summer edition of the club's newsletter that you can download from the above menu About-Newsletters, where you can also download previous editions back to 2004, at least those I could find. I will also email it to all current club members. Hopefully there will be some printed copies in the clubhouse for those who cannot access the e versions or just prefer a printed copy.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single person, in possession of a good kayak, must be in want of another. Jane Austen died on July 18th, 1817, and this was how the little-known first draft of Pride & Prejudice began before her publisher got hold of it. If he’d had access to a friendly, warm, well-run pool session for his kayaking needs then it might have been a very different book indeed. Pool session this Thursday - see you there!
The summer solstice, June 20th. Sacred to the ancients, a liminal time half-way between the birth of the new year and the death of the old. The Heel Stone at Stonehenge is illuminated by the first rays of the sunrise, the great pyramids of Khafra and Khufu frame the sunset. The Weald Leisure Centre at Cranbrook is aligned so that, at 8pm on the longest day of the year, the fire doors will swing open and a procession of kayaks can solemnly be carried into the pool. See you there!