Well the last meeting failed to proceed due to the lack of a quorum. The meeting was rescheduled for today and fortunately the required number was achieved. One of our new members commenced proceedings by expressing his concern about the fact we were going nowhere and that the communication during the shutdown was non-existent.  Basically he said pretty well all I have said in the past but it was taken at face value rather than being ascribed to my alleged antipathy to Patricia. Eventually everyone around the table, apart from our newest recruit, stated that they too were planning to resign. Strangely enough this introduced an environment where we all felt comfortable speaking freely about our frustrations and the way in which having a divided committee made progress a lot more work than was worthwhile.

After much discussion it was agreed to hold the AGM at the earliest possible date and that would be fixed in consultation with a chair from Council to oversee proceedings and introduce the relevant changes (as well as setting out what the alternative would be). After the meeting our Public Officer and I walked our newest member around the Hall (where she expressed interest in hiring the Smoke Room for a therapy studio), generally cheered her up about our prospects in the event of a change of approach and persuaded her to stand for a position on the Committee if required. The Public Officer admitted that he was more a practical person than a paperwork person so would be happy to stand down or otherwise do things as required, and assuming I can persuade Jose and Michael not to proceed with the considered resignation all should be well (barring intervention from the she-devil).

Lord but it's cold. I have spent the last three days at the Stables spinning or knintting but leaving early because it was too cold, even with the wood heater going. Getting home early enough to get my own fire producing heat before the frost settled has seemed a reasonable priority.

Tomorrow is the meeting of the Committee which should resolve once and for all whether it is worth continuing. I have printed out the relevant documentation, distributed it to the relevant parties and had a very dark look from the President when she noted that it included the Articles.

She had asked me to organise a meeting of the Committee to deal with Business as usual. To clarify I asked if that included the Articles, but she said no until I argued that I would have considered it to be part of the Committee's business, which she conceded. So I took that as agreement to put them on the Agenda.

I have also informed the Public Officer that if they are not passed I will be resigning.

It seems that The Boys are of a similar mind, being very miffed at the total absence of communication during lock down.

My other predictable fight will be my suggestion we cancel the November dance on the grounds that A) we have nothing planned and it's a bit late to start now, and B) raffles seem to achieve considerable greater financial return and can continue in the event we have a flare up of Covid in the next few months. Wish me luck.

Tonight's dinner was fried rice. I had planned it to be garnished with crumbed prawns from the Fish Man, but they mysteriously disappeared the night before without accompaniment, haha.