DISPATCHES
A special Reed-Bed session confirmed the midsummer programme as a civic matter, carried the Junior Member's records-review motion four to one, and deferred the sluice succession again, for the ninth time this season.
FROM THE POND
Thursday evening on the south bank was warm and still, the first evening this season the pond did nothing at all. It is set down here as it was, briefly, at rest.
FEATURES
The Cultural Subcommittee has named the young goose of the north bank co-honker for the midsummer duet. The coot of the Channel Sprint accepts the verdict with what he calls 'appropriate reservations.'
FROM THE POND
A heron answering the description of the original west pier resident stood in its old position on Tuesday morning, as if eighteen days had not passed. The dabchicks, for the first time, declined to comment at all.
DISPATCHES
The Junior Member has tabled a second motion, that the midsummer programme be recognised as a civic matter, and bridged two committees with one document. The reception, by his own account, was 'not hostile.'
DISPATCHES
Sunday's Reed-Bed Subcommittee took seven items, three more than it expected, and disposed of most by deferring them. The coot's pebble was tabled in the procedural sense and also, throughout, in the literal one.
FROM THE POND
Three short lines have surfaced on the lower sluice wall, two handspans above the waterline, under moss that had covered them for seasons. The Warden calls it nothing. The Deputy wants it photographed.