Minutes of the Pembroke College Winnie-the-Pooh Society Poohsticks and Punting Expoition held on the 23/02/2003, outside St John’s, on Poohsticks bridge, on two punts (and in the river), and in the Grad Pad.

Minuted by Rosy, John-h and Roz

Present: (Part I) Rachel C, Rachel H, Rosy


  1. Meeting opened at 12:20am outside St John’s.

  2. Votes to commend Rachel C’s leg for not giving up on the way from there to here: Passed 2:0:1

  3. We can’t close this meeting as we aren’t quorate.

(A constitutional point: the motion in minute 2 was carried in a meeting which subsequently became quorate, with as many votes for as in many motions in quorate meetings, but does it count?)

Present: (Part II) Rachel H, Rosy, John-h, Roz, Owen, Sally (briefly), Naath

Visitor: Jack

Apologies: Ecstatic


  1. John-h’s friend is astonished to find he is a member of PoohSoc.

  2. John-h’s friend thinks Poohsticks sounds dodgy.

  3. Finding somewhere to put John-h’s shopping.

  4. Sally and her parents arrive, collect Sally’s bike, and leave again.

  5. Not answering phone calls.

  6. Where is Naath? Roz doesn’t want to carry her cake tin about all afternoon.

  7. The duties of the Captain of Poohsticks, which seem to involve encouraging cheating in the ranks.

  8. John-h is a cruel and unusual Home Secretary, just call him David.

  9. His middle name is David. How appropriate.

  10. But he doesn’t know why.

  11. Roz’s arms are too long, like a gorilla.

  12. If they were on fire then it would be kindest to throw them in the river so let’s set them on fire. (Roz)

  13. The river is unusually low.

  14. Oh that’s where Naath is.

  15. Poohsticks round I. Rosy wins.

  16. Roz has a weapon of mass destruction. It’s a biological weapon.

  17. Poohsticks round II. Rosy wins again.

  18. It’s a nice afternoon. Let’s go punting.

  19. Let’s throw a Heffalump into the river to make the reverse Poohsticks thing work. (Let’s not!)

  20. Four chaps picnicking by the river.

  21. The Society should buy some blue braces for the Christopher Robin.

  22. Silly American accent, "I was having, like, an OK night."

  23. Fishermen smiling.

  24. A white heart on the cobbles.

  25. We decide to go punting. We need two punts.

  26. It was nice of them to run us into a wall.

  27. Rosy is rai(?eig?)ning. So is Owen.

  28. What a beard!

  29. John-h, do you see that wall? Well we don’t want to hit it.

  30. Pooh socks for PoohSoc.

  31. Roz once saw a boat row over a duck and it came out the other side dead.

  32. John-h FELL IN!

  33. His phone was in his pocket. Oh dear.

  34. Jack got sprinkled.

  35. We should fill a paddling pool with Bran Flakes and put John-h in it.

  36. John-h sploshes away.

  37. The rest of us go in search of tea in the Grad Pad.

  38. A lift debate, who shall we throw out?

  39. Hot chocolate. Heresy.

  40. Nobody expects the Faculty of Education.

  41. It’s so pointy it really quite hurts. (Roz)

  42. Spam.

  43. Blood.

  44. Education.

  45. We interview Owen.

  46. Medecine.

  47. We know virtually nothing.

  48. Ritalin. Again.

  49. Generalisations about generalisations.

  50. Lord of the Rings.

  51. Owen’s shoes.

  52. Wheetabix would be difficult to model.

  53. Things we won’t tell people.

  54. Votes to close (before Naath leaves and we lose quorum again). Passed.


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