Houston we have a problem, it seems that despite
the best efforts of the founders of Shiten (a contradiction in terms we know) the
new comers continue to disregard our principles of bonsai not being taken
seriously.
Despite my misgivings as Chair of Shiten we did
open membership to two others, Stonemonkey and Spanglish Speaking Sam. They have been in membership for only a
couple of months and already they are damaging out reputation.
First of all Sam gets selected to represent the
UK at the EBA new comers competition in Vilnius next September, I ask you how
can someone who hardly speaks proper English like wot I do represent the UK,
maybe he should be flying the Gibraltar flag as a compromise!!
Now we are informed that our Shiten pot maker has
been accepted to compete at the prestigious Gafu-Ten* in Japan, he has been
accepted to enter some of his Shiten pots in the glazed and unglazed sections
of the exhibition.
As a consequence of these actions the senior
members of Shiten must consider if they are excluded from membership this
wonderful Club. It seems that these 2
“lost souls” do not realise what privileged company they are in as we are
getting daily requests to be “converted to Shiten”. Maybe we should return to our roots as the
two original members.
We will see how things progress but keep a
watching brief on their future behaviour as we have Shiten Standards to maintain.
(*When I first heard
about this I thought it was “Gaff-Ten” – the Bonsai equivalent of the Razzies)
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