Held in E4.
Present: Jon, Ben, Robert (host), Charlie Perry
Apologies: Stephen (at home)

1. There are crumpets!
   


2. Robert pays his membership and is now a full member of the Society.
   


3. Vote to allow the unpaid-up Charlie to vote for the duration of the meeting: F/2, Ag/0. Abs/1; motion carried
   


4. Disastrously, Robert breaks a cup whilst pouring the tea!
   


5. One Magnus Huckvale wants to be removed from the list, or so Ben reports. Jon will ask Stephen to strike him out.
   


6. Charlie reads last weeks minutes, during which Vicky arrives, bearing the testaments and Treasury.
   


7. Jon has failed either to contact the Sheila and Her Dog Society (spit, spit) or to censure Tapani for his persistent non-attendance. Vote to censure this lamentably shoddy conduct, F/1, Ag/3, Abs/1, motion defeated.
   


8. According to Vicky, she had a mushroom like the last weeks tea-soaked minutes at the restaurant she was at last night, and there was free tiramisu; Charlie correctly identifies it as a Pizza Express with this vital information.
   


9. Ben compares the division of the Market Square between the (technically) Greek Gardies and the (technically) Turkish death van to the green line on Cyprus, which would seem to make the Van of Life the UN patrols.
   


10. Charlie thought Roberts New Labour posters had been put up for sarcasms sake.
    


11. Ben reads: In which Tigger comes to the Forest and has Breakfast.
    


12. Rob got the crumpets on a 12-for-the-price-of-8 deal; Ben claims to have eaten only the free ones.
    


13. Jon manages somehow to out-innuendo Ben!
    


14. Vicky wants to know what nationality Pooh is in this reading?
    


15. Ben is unable to ignore the phrases looking at himself in the glass, and exploring noises with his tongue (which he says three times to make sure hes got everything out of it).
    


16. Piglets voice would seem to be breaking: it is very difficult to restrain the latent Pythonism of several members when confronted with what does sound too much like Graham Chapman saying, If I could walk that way...
    


17. Jon forces Vicky to take on her duties as Eeyore. but this proves difficult because she keeps collapsing in giggles much to the mystification of all. She does however wave a hoof.
    


18. Ben now collapses over Tigger running round in circles with his tongue hanging out.
    


19. Bens interpretation of Christopher Robin seems to be unusually limp round the wrist... also, his Roo is even more, um, extreme, than his Piglet. He excuses thsi because Kangas a bloody Australian, isnt she!
    


20. Sarah arrives, feeling crap, and collapses on Robs bed telling tales of doctors who dont believe in illness. Bens recommended tactic is to march in shouting Give me drugs man! - Vickys is to change doctors.
    


21. Ben pulls the OReilly/oh really joke, but Rob doesnt recognise it and a great comic opportunity is wasted.
    


22. Ben reports on his ElectronicPoohsticks, won by someone in Leeds though Jon was at the next computer.
    


23. Jon is shedding Piglets.
    


24. Sarah is asleep - at least, she nods when we ask her if she is.
    


25. Pauli may be in town next week!
    


26. Are we perhaps actually the Winnie-the-Perverts Society?
    


27. Sybilla arrives, a person Ben managed to talk into coming along.
    


28. We vote to allow Sarah and Sybilla to vote for this meeting despite not having paid: F/3, Ag/0, Abs/2; motion carried.
    


29. Vicky produces the famous red box as Charlie decides to pay up.
    


30. A discussion of Robs central heating [which some people on E in their tender years had to do without! Ed.] leads to the alternative suggestion that we are, in fact, the Winnie-the-Plumbers Society.
    


31. Sybilla wants to abolish the Cambridge station, on the ground that Ben keeps asking her Wie komme ich am besten zum Bahnhof, which has led to him being directed to the laundry without stopping him. His persistence lead sto our researching society penances in the Archive, and lighting upon the trial of Dominic, which is read with much pleasure.
    


32. Apparently Lucky the Cat is sleeping in Blaises bedroom, where mere men have quailed ere now...
    


33. Vicky says Vileda Supermops loudly and clearly, for no reason good enough to merit including it in the minutes when shell just get embarrassed if I dont.
    


34. We like the trial idea so much we decide to try Tapani! Jon will be prosecution, Ben the judge as precedent dictates, with an official cycle helmet of office, he will be asked to provide his own defence, and if any of the jury get called as witnesses well just fill in with passers-by. Jon will notify Tapani while censuring him a week late. Gowns will obviously have to be worn.
    


35. Apparently in German Ich verstehe Bahnhof, is an idiom for, I dont understand anything, so there! Cool or what?
    


36. Vote that the James is not to say Bahnhof in meetings: F/4, Ag/1, Abs/1, and one asleep; motion carried.
    


37. The poem from our earlier redaing is read again by Sarah, and several others despite our attempts to get her to stop.
    


38. We vote to postpone the EGM again, until after the trial: F/5, Ag/0. Abs/1, and one still asleep.
    


39. Vote to impose penance on Ben for still saying Bahnhof;he must bring back something identifiably from the station to prove he knows perfectly well how to get there: F/6, Ag/0, Abs/1, motion carried.
    


40. Vote to close: F/5, Ag/0, Abs/1, and one asleep; meeting closed
    


41. Vote to reopen to decide where next week, F/4, Ag/0, Abs/2; meeting reopened by moot of the members.
    


42. Next weeks meeting will be in U9.
    


43. Vote to reclose, F/5, Ag/1, Abs/1; meeting closed.
    

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