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Paul Narramore · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry I didn't appreciate Alex's green 'Here' was a link to a map. I got the wrong end of the stick. (Now who knows where that term derived from?)

Paul Narramore · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:19 am Post subject:

But is a 'captain' both important or necessary? Lots of car enthusiasts don't belong to car clubs and are (presumably) content with their lot. I belong to at least three motorcycle clubs but never go to any of their events. I'm happy to read the club magazines and chat on their forums.

I can see that with events such as Capesthorne, the club needed a chairman and a committee to spread the load of all of the organisation. Since then it simply (I guess) just ticks over.

Paul Gething · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject:

Do we need a Webmaster in this part of the internet ether?

PaulL · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject:

Whenever I have had a problem with accessing the forum, Aubrey has been very quick to sort things out, but he probably doesn't look at the forum otherwise.

The software the forum runs on (phpBB) seems to get hacked, and as a result is being updated regularly so the Webmaster does have something to do, and it would be better if whoever it is, is more active on the forum.

The present situation - where people have to register in order to read the posts - seems to me to be crazy, and I am sure it never used to be like this.

Paul

Paul Gething · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject:

Paul

I think when it was open to all, it was hacked and generally 'buggered' about with by some mindless nerds somewhere out in Cyberspace. Hence you have to belogged in.

The minority spoil it for the majority........

calex_fr · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:40 am Post subject:

There a little difference between open to all and closed to everybody....
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PaulL · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject:

I can understand the need to be logged in to post, but not just to read the forum. In fact I thought at the last AGM I attended, the point was made that the forum was a way of bringing the club to the attention of the public, ie people who didn't get the club magazine.

Paul

Paul Narramore · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:52 pm Post subject:

I think the term 'wrong end of the stick' dates back to Roman times and their communal loos. There was no toilet paper but a stick with a sponge on the end which was dunked in a bucket of water. The stick was then passed onto the next person who needed it and who didn't want to be offered 'the wrong end'.

Sorry I'll go back to sleep.

But seriously this business of the lack of use of this forum by 95% of the menbership does need thrashing out at the AGM. Either it's too difficult to access or there's a complete lack of interest - or perhaps both?

Rodsmith · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject:

What time does the AGM finish, and we all trickle home? I am trying to work out travelling/travelodge etc, as I would like to come and meet some owners and see their cars.

Rod
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Paul Narramore · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:

People arrive during the morning to stand around and chat, or visit the air museum. The AGM starts at 12-ish and takes a couple of hours or so. Say 3pm at the latest. Time for more chatting and phototaking before the long drive home.

A bufet lunch is provides - sandwiches, tea/coffee. Bring some money to buy stuff - magazine binders, badges, etc.

Rodsmith · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks Paul!

I will be there with my camera- who else is going from here? It is a bit too far away for you Alex?
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Paul Narramore · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject:

Calm down James. By 'buffet' I was talking about some small sandwiches, a bit of cake and a cuppa. Not a Michelin-starred extravaganza. Confused

Rodsmith · Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:50 am Post subject:

And to think, I had told the butler to wrap a set of silver cutlery in a linen napkin to bring with me !
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Paul Narramore · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject:

Ooops, my apologies chaps. I've arranged to take the bike over to my favourite motorcycle-only hotel just south of Oostende in Belgium the weekend of the AGM. With an American blues band on Friday night, an escorted walk around Gent on Saturday, and lots of Belgian Trappist beers at the hotel bar, it was a tough decision to make, but Belgium won. Very Happy

For those of us you do actually use this forum, I hope to meet up with you another time, perhaps Bromley. Please, please try to discover why a membership of over 100 souls fail to use this forum, and post the answers here.

Paul Lyon, If you're reading this mate, sorry. Next year perhaps. What about the Kent Kit Car Show at Detling?

Rodsmith · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:55 am Post subject:

Why don't we hold next year's AGM in Belgium !