​This evening I attended Mold Royal Arch Chapter at the Mold Masonic Hall, to give a talk.

The Chapter’s Scribe Ezra had reached out to contact me from the North Wales Association of Masonic Studies Lecture List, to see if I would be available to come along to their meeting to give a talk. I asked if they had anything in particular that they would like a talk on, and I was informed they wanted “The Missing Word on the Plate of Gold”. I always enjoy visiting Mold Lodge, and since I had never visited Mold Chapter I jumped at the Change to go and give them a talk.

It was a very enjoyable evening, and all the Companions seemed to enjoy the talk.  I even bumped into an old NWAMS speaker who was before my time, and we got talking about the association, and talks we had given. It was interesting to see how the association had changed over the years.

Today  Nev, Hugh, and Myself went along to the White Table meeting of The Lodge of Rhuddlan Castle, to give a presentation on Blood Bikes Wales.

It was a well attended meeting, with a large number of Masons, and None-Masons (or not yet Masons) in attendance. The Lodge pledged £5657 to the 2028 Festival, £350 to the North Wales Mountain Rescue, and £1,500 to Blood Bikes Wales.

We were then treated to a Gourmet five course meal, in great company, with as much wine and port as we wanted (poor Nev was the designated driver).

It is a hard job, but someone has to do it. #ItsWhatWeDo

​This evening I attended Wrexhamian Royal Arch Chapter at the Maesgwyn Hall, to give a talk.

The Chapter had nothing planned for the evening, so Scribe Ezra contacted me a couple of weeks ago to ask if I could arrange something for the evening. I of course said yes, since we should all be getting a daily advancement in Masonic Knowledge. I asked if they had anything in particular that they would like a talk on, and I was informed it was my choice.

I considered multiple options for a topic, before discussing it with the Sunday Evening Beer club, and finally settling for “The Missing Word on the Plate of Gold”.

The talk was about what used to be on the plate of gold, and the meaning and symbolism behind it all, and when it changed to what we have today, and more importantly, why it had to change.

​This evening I visited Kelsterton Lodge at Farfield Masonic Hall.

Blood Bikes Wales had been invited to go along and give a Talk on what we do. So Nev, Hugh, and Myself went to do our thing. We will visit any North Wales Lodge, Chapter, etc to do our audio-visual presentation. What can I say, Nev will go anywhere if it means he can be in a Photograph.

It was a very enjoyable evening, especially since it was their Christmas meeting so the festive board was full of singing and Christmas cracker hats.

You all owe me a “Thanks“, I had considered posting a Cracker Joke on each post that included a Christmas Dinner, but I decided I could not be that evil to you all.

The Lodge also made a donation of £250 to Blood Bikes Wales, which they made up to £277.12 with money thrown into a bucket during the festive board.

This evening I had a little trip out to the coast out by Colwyn Bay to visit Dinorben Lodge for the first time.

I had been booked to give a talk on behalf of the North Wales Association of Masonic Study (NWAMS). The NWAMS was formed 60 years ago for the purposes of nurturing and fostering Masonic research through the dissemina-tion of Masonic Knowledge throughout the Province particularly as regards symbolism, history and esoteric meaning. The Association achieves this through its team of approved Lecturers and by supporting re-search by individuals or groups. I have been an approved NWAMS Lecturer since 2021, although I have been giving talks to Lodges since 2017,

The talk the Lodge had selected this time was titled “Widows Sons – Outlaw Bikers or Masonic Ambassadors”, which was a bit of a coincidence since last month my book of the same name was the Number one Freemasonry book on the UK and US Amazons.

It was a very enjoyable meeting in what has to be the largest Lodge room in North Wales, followed by a lovely meal at the local cricket club.

This evening was the meeting of Clwyd College of The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.).

Clwyd College has been doing very well these last few years since it moved its meeting location and was saved from closing. To help them out I have agreed to go into the Celebrant’s chair for the year, and it was time for my postponed Celebrant’s paper. In the S.R.I.A. it is traditional for the Celebrant to present a paper when he goes into the chair, but when I went into the chair at the last meeting, I postponed mine to allow another Frater to present one so he could secure his admission into the Second Order.

My paper was titled “21st Century Alchemy : Alchemy in the Digital Age” and it seemed to go down well, and led to a very interesting discussion, which even continued into the Festive Board. As soon as I format the paper up neatly, and add some images for colour, I will post the paper online.

This evening Nev, Hugh, and myself had a trip out to the coast by Tywyn to go give a talk on Blood Bikes Wales to Corbet Lodge No. 1583.

It was a very enjoyable evening with the Stewards Lodge visiting to do part of a third, a talk on Royal Arch, and our talk on Blood Bikes.

The talk was very well received and the members if Corbet Lodge gave us a fantastic donation of £800.

This evening Nev, Hugh, and myself went along to Bromfield Lodge No 4233 to give a talk on Blood Bikes Wales, and what they do.

The talk went down very well with the Brethren present, who asked interesting questions both up in the lodge room, and down in the meal afterwards.

It was an enjoyable evening, and the Lodge presented us with a very generous donation of £500

This evening I went along to Llannerch Lodge to give a talk under the banner of the North Wales Association of Masonic Study!

This was the first time I had given this talk, which was “The True Masonic Church“

This was an interesting evening since Llannerch Lodge is my mother Lodge, and I have not been back to visit in a long while. So it was nice to be asked to attend to give a talk.

​St Edmund’s Church in Rochdale, is regarded as one of the finest but least known gems of ecclesiastical architecture in the country. Commissioned by the industrialist and banker Albert Hudson Royds, its interior is packed with Masonic symbolism.

The specific spark that initiated St Edmund’s might have come when on August 10, 1869, the Provincial Grand Lodge convened in the Chapter House of Worcester Cathedral to march in procession to the Cathedral where the new Masonic window that had been built in the north transept was unveiled. On this occasion, Albert Royds (who was already a member of the Supreme Council, 33rd Degree) proclaimed: “I ask you to accept this gift from the brethren of our ancient Craft and sometimes, when you look upon its mellowed light, may you be induced to say, ‘O, wonderful Masons!’”.

This evening Nev, Hugh, and myself popped along to visit St. Asaph Lodge to give a presentation on Blood Bikes Wales.

The talk was well received by everyone in attendance, with some interesting technical questions being thrown our way during the Q&A.

The Lodge gave us a fantastic donation of £300, with the members throwing an additional £40.67 in the bucket.