D’ya wanna be in my gang?

BCLC are now on Facebook. You can join us if you are an FB member by finding the group (bclc) and then sending in a request to join.

Hear the one with the moustache say “Jeez, I can’t find my knees!”

I am very pleased to announce that very soon indeed I will be the one with the moustache.

For those of you that don’t know yet I am observing the month of Movember and growing myself a ‘Mo’  (this is an Australian abreviation of the word, we prefer ‘tache in the UK but it would be difficult to turn that into the name of a month)

I am hoping to raise some money along the way for Prostrate Cancer research and treatment so if you would like to contribute then you need to do this:

To sponsor my Mo (moustache) and fight against prostate cancer please go to http://www.movember.com/uk/donate, enter my registration number which is 166693 and your credit card details. Or you can sponsor me by cheque made payable to “The Prostate Cancer Charity” clearly marking the donation as being for my Registration Number: 166693. Please mail cheques to: The Prostate Cancer Charity, ATT: Movember, First Floor, Cambridge House, 100 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith, London W6 0LE.

All donations are made directly to The Prostate Cancer Charity which will use the money to fund high quality research into the causes, treatment and impact of prostate cancer and to provide support and information to men and their families.

Pictures of my proud and hairy upper lip will be forthcoming ……

Come you masters of war

We had a meeting og the BCLC planning committee last night round at our house. We usually meet in the pub but for one reason or another we had it in our drawing room instead.

During the meeting we had reason to look back at what we had done previously to try to ensure we don’t end up doing the same thing year in year out – oh it’s harvest, let’s think about how little we actually do compared to what we could do to even up the distribution of the world’s resources – you know the sort of thing.

This Sunday is, of course remembrance Sunday. These days are especially poignant when there is actually a real war on at the time (that we are directly involved with, i.e. actually fighting rather than just arming both sides) I always think. At other times we tend to get a bit sentimental about what is a truly abhorant and disagreable way to go about sorting out problems.

So this Sunday we will be playing a popular war game (battleships) and then going to the Imperial War Museum North to see what really happens when you select c4 and sink a submarine.

I will duly record procedings a relate them to you, if only for the benefit of the planners.

Next week we will start looking less at what happens in war and more at why we have them and whether there can ever truly be a just war. If you would like to pre-empt that discussion I will gladly take your points along to the session (or bring them yourself..) and share them with the group.