Minutes of the Meeting of the Moot (May 2011)

The meeting started with the lighting of a tea light.


1. Apologies: Marston was very sorry.

2.  Matters arising from the last Moot: Nobody had actually done anything about any of them.

3. Discussion of the discovery of proven Anglicans in the Beaker Community: We discovered a minute dating back to 1934, in which a discussion had been held that concluded, after 56 sub-committees had been formed and a series of papers had been issued, that life was a rum old thing and we'd better have a bit of a think. Today's Moot endorsed this decision and suspended any further discussion until we'd had a bit of a think.

4. The light bulb in the Doily Shed: The lightbulb in the Doily Shed has failed. Marston proposed we bought a new one. Hnaef pointed out that the old one was a 60W incandescent bulb, and so we needed to replace it with a 17W energy-saving bulb. Glouria stated that she hated the new-style bulbs - she reckoned the mercury vapour interfered with the amalgam in her fillings. Eileen sympathised, although she said that she'd had the amalgam fillings removed and replaced with something less toxic, like Princess Diana did. Stacey Bushes commented that she missed Princess Diana, and it had been quite a sad day when we all watched over the A421 bridge to see the procession. Burton then reminded the Moot that the bridge Stacey was referring to was no longer the A421, due to the road improvement schemes, and we should correct the record. Hnaef asked what all this had to do with the lightbulb. Eileen asked what light-bulb was Hnaef whittering on about, we were talking about Princess Diana.

5. Mission: The Moot agreed this was a good idea.

6. Evangelism: Postponed on account of the threatened Rapture.

7. Finance: Eileen stated there wasn't enough, and in the light of the threatened Rapture could all Beaker Folk please leave their worldly goods to her today. Hnaef asked whether that would be enough to buy a new light bulb? Eileen asked why - did we need a new light bulb?

8. Children's work: We've now been told that children aren't really allowed to work. We will have to amend Community policies accordingly, and may have to hire a proper chimney sweep. This may also put a dent in the doily production, but then the doily business has not been great since the light bulb failed.

9. Ecumenism: Eileen asked was everybody mad? After the last debacle with the Guinea Pig Folk of Stewartby she was refusing to talk to anybody of any faith group. Although she admitted that as a result, her policy of only having conversations with atheists was getting her down. As the conversations mostly consisted of bright ideas on clustering indexes.

10. Trip to the Doily Shed: this had to be abandoned after three minutes of blundering around in the dark. Eileen asked why nobody had thought of buying a light bulb.

 Meeting Closed with the snuffing out of a Tea Light.