Minutes of the Punting expoitition of Saturday 6th June 1998

Present:Michael, Kirsten, Jenny, Rob Anderson, Granny, Steven, Anfony, Susy, Catherine, Ben

1. We are in 2 punts. Granny and Anfony punting.
   


2. Jenny is nominated as secretary [and so takes the minutes today].
   


3. We are currently Benless, but he is meant to be catching us up after a liaison with Becky.
   


4. Susy and Catherine are here on an open day to Queens, but Kirsten invited them along after Anfony suggested it for some unknown reason.
   


5. Granny's punt stops to pick Ben up. He is looking rather flustered and there is no tea in sight.
   


6. Ben is lusting after 6th formers.
   


7. Kirsten distributes cake.
   


8. Granny's lost the technique again.
   


9. Ben's a sexist bastard.
   


10. We've lost our pole.
    


11. Votes to censure Anfony for deserting us. 3:1:0 motion carried
    


12. Votes to allow visitors to vote. 3:1:0 motion carried
    


13. Ben flirts with random woman on another punt.
    


14. Granny's pole is sticky.
    


15. Ben boards the other punt - nothing to do with 6th formers at all!
    


16. Votes to censure Ben for being sexist. 453,561:0:0 motion carried
    


17. Rabbit sends his apologies and so did Chris Emerson.
    


18. The ducks are overtaking us.
    


19. We see Kanchon with sister and friends in another punt.
    


20. The other punt catches us up.
    


21. Anfony distributes drink.
    


22. Michael is so Cambridge.
    


23. The other punt collides with a bush. He he he!
    


24. Another random punt asks for cake and recognises us as The Strange Winnie-the-Pooh society.
    


25. Our punt collides with a bush. Not he he he. :-(
    


26. Ben reads Anfony's dodgy cake poem again.
    


27. We partake is some bondage.
    


28. We read In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded By Water.
    


29. We pass a punt where a load of men are chucking each other in. And I thought Pooh-soc was weird.
    


30. We get funny looks from people on the banks, but then again, Ben had his piglet voice on.
    


31. We see Dan and family on a punt and sing Happy Birthday to him.
    


32. The 6th former leaves us.
    


33. Votes to censure Ben for being pedantic. 6+a tree:1:0 motion carried
    


34. We don't name our punts even though all boats have to have a name. Michael takes over the minuting.
    


35. Ben makes gratuitous Python jokes. Michael takes over the minuting.
    


36. A tree eats one boat and Steven gets lost momentarily.
    


37. Granny loses his pole again.
    


38. Votes to censure Granny for being crap. 3:2:0 motion carried
    


39. The umbrella floats but wobbles. So do the punts.
    


40. We turn around at 5'o'clock.
    


41. Michael takes possesion of Granny's pole.
    


42. Ben thinks Anfony is sweet and wants to take him home and tuck him up.
    


43. Stephen loses his pole; lots of that going on.
    


44. We see some baby ducks. We miss them. Just.
    


45. Michael offers Ben his ring.
    


46. Anfony is ambushed by some nettles.
    


47. Ben asks for help organdizing the Garden Party. Granny volunteers to do tickets. We're going to do a treasure hunt with a map of Hundred Acre Wood. Still need someone to do food.
    


48. Another punt almost lose their pole - but don't. The punter doesn't even fall in. We are impressed.
    


49. We hit a tree. It said "Bang".
    


50. There is a Pembrokian majority for once.
    


51. Michael offers his watch and promises to get to his underwear eventually.
    


52. Granny finds a swing.
    


53. Granny jumps Ben.
    


54. Ben calls Granny a swinger.
    


55. Kirsten wants to know how to translate the 'bonhommy' passage into French, and finds no satisfactory answer.
    


56. Granny is horrible to Kirsten.
    


57. Granny suggests punting with 4 poles in 2 punts. We could pretend we were in Oxford and Cambridge simultaneously.
    


58. We meet 48,000 mathmos. The mathmo resistance are making progress in their secret misssion to rule Cambridge!
    


59. Granny wants grappling irons and a rolled out zebra crossing so he can bridge hop Fen Causeway.
    


60. Michael looks elegant.
    


61. Granny is very vulgar about vibrating poles and how to hold them.
    


62. Votes to censure Granny for said vulgarity. 6:1:1 motion carried
    


63. Anfony loses his pole and the minutes almost go for a swim.
    


64. One punt has 2 poles and the other none. Obviously granny's fault for thinking it would be interesting.
    


65. Votes to close. 6:1:1 motion carried.
    

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