good meeting

[winterbadger]

Well, we got one surprise at the meeting: one of our members had been in touch with the group we were thinking of migrating to, and had been told they were not accepting new members! Apparently *they* did such a good job of recruiting last year that they have their hands full training up all the new guys they've found.

With that news, and a certain amount of hemming and hawing, and with some persuasion from the one infantryman who really doesn't want the unit to split up, we agreed to go on for one more year and see what happens. For my part, I pointed out that we've said that ever year for the last couple, and I mentioned that I would probably be less likely to be out at events this year (no matter what else is going on in my life, I have too many hobbies, and not knocking myself to get to half a dozen events a year sounds kind of nice). I agreed to be VP (a job that our by-laws require but that has no duties or responsibilities :-) and found someone else to take on being quartermaster (so the dozen boxes and bales that went into the car today stayed in MD), so all in all I'm pretty happy with how it all went.

Comments

[sidhne.livejournal.com]

Too bad they can't farm out some of their overflow to your group!

[winterbadger]

We're going to suggest just that (politley, of course).

[sidhne.livejournal.com]

Something like, "Sorry, we're not taking new members, but we know another group that is?"

[winterbadger]

Just so. And "...another HIghland Scots group..." at that. Plus one of our older members is going to be British Brigade recruiting chairman this year (IOW, coordinator for anyone coming to the umbrella group for the British part of the hobby) and is promising to steer people our way. Good news, if it actually happens.