Held in U8.
Present: Ben, Jon, Vicky, Stephen, Anthony, Sibylle, Rob, Alasdair, Claire and Alison Farmer and The Famous Anna (both just visiting).
Apologies: Andrew (after Class 205 DEMUs), The High Queen Jon Skeet (who was at his engagement party), and Claire (who thought she had a rehearsal)

1. Vote to censure all those who are not here and have not apologised (which includes Vicky and Jon at this stage): F., 3, Ag., 0, Abs., 1; carried.
   


2. Vote to allow Alison to vote for the duration of the meeting: F., 4, Ag., 0, Abs., 1; carried.
   


3. Vicky arrives.
   


4. Everyone starts talking in German. Ben informs us that he has potato salad in the pub. Meanwhile, his teapot is discovered to have mould growing round it so we use another one.
   


5. Anthony arrives at 4:15. Ben goes to try and drag Jon out of the computer room.
   


6. The cherry things Jacyntha sent us are found to be not particularly nice.
   


7. Ben returns successful, bringing with him a Jon and some minutes, twenty-one minutes late the both. He asks Alasdair for some tea but is refused. There is however cake!
   


8. Rob reads the minutes of the Silly Meeting with the celebrated suspect cough.
   


9. Sibylle discovers that Lee Benfield is from Robinson, and says, "Oh, I'm so glad I didn't go there!"
   


10. Rob now reads the real minutes, while the Novelty teapot strikes yet another hapless victim. It is noted that Stephen is today wearing no jumper!
    


11. Anthony tries a sour apple warhead and goes very quiet.
    


12. Vote to open the Cheddar Cheese Goldfish: F., 5, Ag., 2, Abs., 2, and one spoiled ballot (Alison); Ben describes the smell as "interesting"...
    


13. Sibylle photographs several people without warning.
    


14. Sibylle saw Jon and Vicky after the Barham Dinner. Vicky doesn't remember, and Jon does only after a very great effort. Sibylle reports that there were two people holding Vicky up, but in fact, Jon claims, he was holding both of the others up, except when he forgot to. It was a good dinner.
    


15. Anthony presents Claire's apologies: he says she has broken both arms in a horrible piano accident.
    


16. We vote to censure Ben for no good reason: F:, 3, Ag., 4, Abs., 2; defeated!
    


17. Ben fails to foresee the May the 4th joke, and then insists on pulling the "I have felt his presents" one. Some people. And the censure was defeated? I don't know.
    


18. Vote to open the Oreos, F., 0, Ag., 1, Abs., 7; defeated: to open the Hot Tamales, F., 1, Ag., 2, Abs., 6; defeated. Vote to open the Wheat Thins, F., 0, Ag., 3, Abs., 6; defeated. Vote to open the Nutter Butter Sandwich Cookies, F., 4, Ag., 2, Abs., 4; carried. At last we eat again! However, there are only fur and Jon pronounces them not worth the vote.
    


19. Ben has received a letter from Shamal, who guested last week, enclosing not only a gratuitous pie-chart (now available in the archives), but also money for membership; outrageous!
    


20. Vicky wants to make an Ionic temple out of the last slice of marble cake.
    


21. Ben tries to get Sibylle to tell us about her famous orgy, in instalments.
    


22. Alasdair leaves to go to a birthday party, saying, "Lock up when you leave."
    


23. Claire is sighted on the lawn, and since she seems to still have the use of both arms we drag her in, with The Famous Anna. We vote to allow Anna to vote, F., 7, Ag., 1, Abs., 1; carried.
    


24. The reading is "In Which Piglet does a Very Grand Thing", read by Anthony.
    


25. Vicky starts finding pictures of Eeyore and going, "It's me, it's me," and collapsing in giggles. Ben proposes a motion that she is quite, quite mad: F., 3, Ag., 3, Abs., 3; hung, and we can't be bothered to find any more visitors, so it stays that way for now.
    


26. "Vicky's got a lovely bow on her tail" says Jon, and Rob insists that it be minuted.
    


27. Ben is sitting by an open door when he gives us his famous Piglet voice, and several doors suddenly slam. He yells, "Everyone's a bloody critic!"
    


28. We make Claire Temporary Wol.
    


29. Anthony cannot say "hearthrug".
    


30. A Random Blonde attired only in a towel passes the door. Ben and Jon feel they have picked their seats well.
    


31. Ben tries to Piglet talking quietly, and by his own admission sounds more like a Dalek.
    


32. Sibylle is reading no-Pooh-like material again: vote to censure, F., 3, Ag., 2, Abs., 4 and one spoiled; carried.
    


33. "Piglet goes slowly up at the other end".
    


34. We are so impressed by Claire's performance as Wol that there are calls for her to be made Wol. Unfortunately we have tried before to oust Sarah from the post, and even though she's never here it caused Great Strife and Dissension. Instead, we vote to create the Post of Under-Wol (F., 7, Ag., 1, Abs., 2; carried) and vote Claire into it, F., 8, Ag., 0, Abs., 2; carried!
    


35. We have been debating the engagement of the High Queen Jon Skeet all meeting. Ben points out that Sheila (spit) have hereditary membership, so if Jon and Holly have kids and they get to Cambridge and want to join, this marriage will in fact increase the membership of the enemy! We finally decide to declare it heretical and send Congratulations. There is a feeling that this is a bit nasty, and the vote comes out F., 3, Ag., 3, Abs., 3, so we call in Piyush to decide. First we settle the hung vote over Vicky's mental state (For; she is mad after all), and then he votes For sending the card. Ben then points out that Roo is under-age, anyway, and Jon says he can put that in a card without risking offence as much. A sigh of relief is breathed by the more fluffy of our members. It must of course be minuted that someone (the notes do not record who... ) says of Miss Webb, "I thought she was quite a nice person, what's she doing marrying him?"
    


36. Sibylle claims to have met Mr. T, but no-one is sure whether she's making it up or not.
    


37. Rob still wants an E.G.M.: F., 2, Ag., 4, Abs., 1; motion defeated.
    


38. Sibylle still wants to be Christopher Robin. To solve the problem that she has to be "a retired officer of the Society", Jon proposes that we appoint her Coastguard and then un-appoint her some time in the future: F., 8, Ag., 0, Abs., 1; carried as unanimously as is constitutional.
    


39. Vote to close: F., 6, Ag., 2, Abs., 1, one spoilt ballot; meeting closed. Meeting reopened, as people start to leave, to decide on D12 next week, and vote to close again, F., 2, Ag., 0, Abs., 1; meeting closed.
    

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