Back from the island  and have met Alfie Noakes who is organising the plaque for Malcolm. He is very keen to see the forum continue and I have asked him to shadow me as an administrator to make sure that administrative access is never lost again should anything happen to me.

The staff team of myself / Alfie and Captain now have an staff administrative area on the forum to discuss running the forum. Apologies to anyone who may think I have overlooked them but it takes time to get to know people. I plan to invite one more moderator to join the staff team subject to staff agreement.

The main decision that needs to be made is as to the future of the main website as personally I cannot replace Malcolm's dedication. I don't have the time, enthusiasm or event knowledge to update all the news articles. I have yet to work out how Malcolm's news grabber functions. If anyone wants to act as news correspondent then I'll investigate further, failing that I may freeze the current website as a history section and just have a simple greeting page for the forum.

There are funds that need to be raised for the plaque (£100) and forum hosting charges (approx £150 per year) Alfie and I will act as joint auditors on this. I'll use an old unused account of mine for the time being and email statements to Alfie for financial summaries to be checked and posted. I would suggest £10 from members who wish to donate to get the fund started, details to follow..