Seeing how today was the
last Wednesday of the month, this evening we set off to the
arky-ologee club. Tonight was the AGM. I read the minutes of last
year's AGM in amazement; at last year's AGM it was me who had
proposed doubling the annual subs. In this new world order of
austerity I can't help but wish I'd kept my trap shut last year.
This year's AGM was
rather entertaining. There is talk of amalgamating with Harrietsham
Historical Society. But only talk because (at the moment)
Harrietsham Historical Society doesn't actually exist. It's still at
the theoretical stage, and if it ever gets off the ground it would
probably be very much the same as the arky-ologee club. I can't see
why the historically-minded denizens of Harrietsham can't just join
the arky-ologee club and be done with it. Starting their own club
just to then amalgamate with another club seems like a lot of
fiddling about to me. but what do I know?
There was also talk of
getting involved with a local village's open day for the Queen's
diamond jubilee celebrations. Apparently in celebration the club is
going to invite the general public to do a resistivity map of a
nearby field to try to find an oast house. Personally I can think of
easier ways to find oast houses. Just having a look is one that
immediately springs to mind.
Mind you the whole idea
may well be doomed to failure as Margot would seem to have
reservations about the whole sorry issue of insurance. There may well
be those of my loyal readers who are wondering who Margot is. I too
am wondering as well. It was never made clear who Margot was, and I
couldn't bring myself to ask.
Having elected someone else to the position of
club chairman (even though he wasn't there) we then had the
evening's talk. And in an amazing break with tradition the talk was
really good. Astro-archeology. The talk was about how Stonehenge and
Avebury lined up with celestial bodies as they were in the skies
several thousand years ago. And then the speaker moved on to other
sites, including several local ones. It was a really good talk; I
didn't know that Stonehenge had been upgraded over the millennia to
account for stellar drift.
At the end of the talk we
had the opportunity to ask questions. I asked if the speaker would
come to the astro club in a few months' time.
She agreed....
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