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Archive for March, 2010

Jo and Nat celebrated their birthday in style with a masquerade party at Tilt in Nottingham.  The evening of cocktails and even more cocktails went well with the girls really enjoying their party!

Over the weekend of 20^th/21^st March I helped run the regional paddlesports update weekend at Quorn, Leicestershire.

The weekend started with a key note address by Stuart Briggs from Canoe England before I formally launched the East Midlands Regional website (http://www.empaddlers.org).  After an open discussion forum we all broke for lunch, which involved a bellboat taxi service to Colin’s pub!

In the afternoon the attendees split into several workshops.  I led the Fundamentals workshop with Andy Oughton which was well received by all…hopefully they all learnt something!

On Sunday I assisted Andy running the unofficial 3* Coracle course at The Boat House pub in Barrow.  It was a fun session which was enjoyed by all…even if we did manage to get Jenny wet!!

After weeks of designing, testing and trailing empaddlers.org is finally live!

The aim of empaddlers.org is to bring together paddlers from all around the East Midlands.  It shows off paddlesports within the region and has a discussion forum for everyone to talk on!

If your interested in paddlesports then check it out!!!

On a nice warm Saturday I headed down to Rutland water to introduce David to Open Canoeing.

We managed to run through the 2 Star syllabus with ease as David seemed to master the basics of open canoeing with ease!  With the key skills achieved it was time for the “get wet” part of the course!

A thoroughly enjoyable morning on the water…and we even convinced Sam, David’s partner, to get in a boat!