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We’re so excited to offer a free taster class for Cricklemovers on December 18. There will be two half-hour sessions, one at 1000 and a second at 1030. Both are completely free to join and will offer a great preview of the regular classes that will start on 9 January.
The busy knitting ladies of Crickleknitters have been hard at work knitting getting on for 100 baby hats for the Neonatal Ward, Winnicott, at St Mary’s Hospital.
Some of the group went down to present the hats to the unit and they were very warmly received. We’ve also received donations of yarn and patterns for the hats, and the group have been working their fingers and needles to the bone to produce some very cute baby hats. There is always scope to join in if you fancy it. Just drop in any Wednesday between 1300 and 1500. No need to book.
Classes will typically include physical postures asana, breathing practice pranayama, and relaxation. Classes start gently, with grounding floor poses and breathing practices. They typically continue with warming up postures and follow with standing, balancing, and floor postures with time to slow down and relax the body and mind at the end of the practice. Options and modifications are offered throughout the class to suit everybody.
This class welcomes everyone but it is pitched to Beginners and Level 1 students. It is particularly recommended when returning to practice after a break or when wanting a steady practice to build over time.
Ivana trained in Hatha and Vinyasa yoga with Jessica Stewart and Yin yoga with Jose de Groot. She started practising yoga almost 20 years ago and loved the practice ever since. Not just how strong and reinvigorating the body feels but the calm and the ease of both body and mind after the practice.
The class cost is £10. To book or for more information please email ivanazyoga@gmail.com
“I have been practising yoga with Ivana for six months now having, started as a complete beginner. I thoroughly enjoy her classes. The small group sessions that she runs are always friendly and relaxed whilst still providing a challenge physically. She really has a talent for working with each individual’s abilities and needs within the class, and gently encourages adjustments to suit each person.
Classes are planned to have a theme, which means that no two classes are identical, and I have learned so much working with her. I always leave the class relaxed and uplifted and ready to enjoy the day ahead. Ivana is a talented teacher who clearly cares deeply about her work. I thoroughly recommend her classes.” A.M.
The book chosen for the last Cricklereaders of the year is Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead.
Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can.
Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking ‘like a little blue prizefighter.’ For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.
In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn’t an idea, it’s as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn’t an abstraction, it’s neighbours, parents, and friends. ‘Family’ could mean love, or reluctant foster care. For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he’s willing to travel to try and get there.
Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.
If you’d like to join the group, email cricklereaders@
Next meeting: Sunday 11 December, 1030-1130
We’re on a short pause while our MD, Anna, rehearses for an opera. Regulars will hear via Whatsapp when we are resuming. If you’re not yet a regular, sign up!
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
‘The most exquisite kind of literature… I’ve put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. ‘
OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
‘Could not be more timely… It’s funny and absurd, but it’s also frightening, because even as Gospodinov plays with the idea as fiction, the reader begins to recognise something rather closer to home… A writer of great warmth as well as skill‘
GUARDIAN
‘In equal measure playful and profound, Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it’
CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Woman Upstairs
‘A genrebusting novel of ideas… Gospodinov’s vision of tomorrow is the nightmare from which Europe knows it must awake. And accident, in combination with the book’s own merits, may just have created a classic’
THE TIMES
‘Gospodinov is one of Europe’s most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book’
DAVE EGGERS, author of The Circle
The September group will meet at the library at 1030 on Sunday 30 October. Do join in.