FEATURES
The Cultural Subcommittee has advanced its midsummer arrangements. A duet of some length is proposed, a co-honker is wanted, and terms remain in negotiation through Hettie's mother.
LETTERS
A week of recoveries has produced a week of correspondence. The editor sets out four letters, with notes, bearing on the records review, the pebble, the Halford filing, and the fish.
FROM THE POND
A single small fish surfaced beneath the west pier on Thursday, the first reliable sighting since the heron arrived. The dabchicks, who issue a statement about everything, issued none. That was the story.
DISPATCHES
At Wednesday's Reed-Bed Subcommittee, the Junior Member tabled a motion to recognise the records review. It was met with constructive silence, then deferred. He asked only that it be minuted.
FEATURES
On the records review's second morning the Clerk produced two items long thought lost, from the same drawer: Drake Halford's first census filing of 15 April, and the pebble of the Coot of the Channel Sprint.
DISPATCHES
The Warden has consented to a review of the older pondside records, which he prefers to call the clarification of a small matter of count. The Clerk has begun in spare hours, with the third drawer of the inkstand.
FROM THE POND
The Cultural Subcommittee named three provisional pads for the Midsummer Gathering on Saturday. The Reed-Bed Subcommittee replied that none had been constituted as central. The frog observed that none, geometrically, is.