Saturday 14th July saw our first General Council Meeting down at RIBI HQ in Alcester. Our first GC is a very new experience but none the less interesting and in many respects enjoyable. We started at 9:00 am and finished at 4:30 with a 15min Coffee break in the morning and just 25mins for lunch. A file of papers about 1inch thick arrived about 1week earlier all had to be read and the salient points extracted. It is assumed at the meeting that all have read all the papers so this speeds things up as no report is read out just the discussion and decission points are raised.