Well ! The recent AGM of Flintshire Bird Club ended shambolically yesterday evening ..and here's why ! . Well !! There's more than one bit of Flintshire ! Who knew ? And last Thursday, several vociferous members declared a breakaway faction who wanted to, er, break away from the FBC and do their own thing. They are going to call themselves " Part of Flint Bird Club." ( PoFBC for short). What an ingenious and mellifluous name that is. This came as a total surprise for everyone, especially the committee ! It wasn't on the agenda. Suddenly, people had to think for themselves. Cripes ! Crivvens ! Briwsion ! Help me Bob ! Stap me Vitals !! Spontaneity, resourcefulness, quick thinking, etc were in short supply. That came as a shocking shock and totally flabbergasting blow to everyone. It wasn't long before scuffles started to appear, then chairs and tables were getting thrown around, punches were being thrown, and Mrs Bronwen-Davies, our long-suffering President had her hat knocked onto the floor and trampled on by the Treasurer. The amazing thing was, there were only 8 of us there ! That takes some doing. And really, only seven of us were scrapping ... the Secretary was too busy writing it all down for the minutes ! A classic case of " please excuse the shaky handwriting." Mind you, the POFBC are a fool to themselves, because they'll have no shoreline to scan, and their " Part-of-Flint List" will be pathetic. But, that's what they want. As the meeting ended, as I said, in disarray, there are a few issues to be resolved. Are "they" going to be allowed to be in "both?" Are "the rest" going to be allowed to be in both ? As there are only three people in the breakaway group, who's going to be what ? Or to put in another way, who's going to be which ? Will those who are in both get a " joint membership discount" ? Who's going to pay for Mrs Bronwen-Davies' hat ? Who will pay for the 3 damaged tables and broken piano lid ? Will "they" hold "their" meetings on Thursday's too ? Will they be on the same dates as "ours" ? But the really vital question is, is there going to be the usual " anti-PoFBC" ?. Remember ,,, every bird club has its opposite, antagonistic version as well. Deadly enemies ! In Cumbria, it was always The King of Bryher v. Everyone Else. With the FBC it's the Flintwitchers ...clever stuff eh ? But we do have a " one-day-truce" for a Big Flintshire Bird Race" I have, of course, written about them before..... I have also, of course, forgotten whereabouts it is. What will be the repercussions of all that I've no idea. And we've still no idea as to where that huge box full of hundreds of pairs of binoculars came from, or if the President's going to leave, or if I'm ever going to get a ruling about my house being only half in Flintshire .... it's bloody Jungleland I tell you ....... or maybe Bungleland would be more like it. Here's the words video for it .... I generally sing this on the way home from Chess Club on Friday nights .... it tough up in N.E. Wales you know ....... I tend to miss out the 3-minute solo in the middle though . And, topically, if you missed the twice-mentioned hidden bird in there, now's your big chance to find it with this rather ungrammatical words video .....
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