Initiation

That was quite a nice Initiation service last night. It's always good, in these financially stressed times, to get new Beaker People. And Ardwick seems a nice type and got through the Votes of Elders without being black-balled at any stage.

You may be wondering about Ardwick's name - taking a part of Manchester as your Beaker Name isn't normal. But I'm seriously thinking that the North could be ripe for a Beaker colony. Obviously, northerners aren't as rich as normal people. But some of them might be wanting to join a modern neo-coenobitic community - I hear rumours of outbreaks of tea-lights in the Vale of York, for instance. And if I installed a Beaker Leeds, say, the northerners wouldn't have so far to walk to get there.

In the meantime - for this is still just at the vision stage - we had a little controversy with Ardwick and the Sorting Hat. Ardwick wanted to go into Daisy House (devious, spiritual, gormless) but the Hat had other ideas. So Ardwick's been Sorted into Chesney Hawkes House (gormless, loyal, directionless). We're quite excited as although Chesney Hawkes has always been one of the Beaker Houses, this is the first time that it's had a member. Which makes Ardwick..... no, sorry, I can't go through with it.