I wonder if tonight’s meetings of Shuttleworth Council AMD & Gawthorpe Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners at Burnley might have set a new record for the quickest business meetings ever? Having tiled the Council at 6.30 pm, with VWBro Keith Schofield acting as DC in the absence of WBro David Gallear, we were soon hearing the eulogy for our recently departed Bro Mike Landriau, after which the elections for WM (Bro Jack Day) and Treasurer (me again!) for the ensuing year were swiftly declared. Council closed, ties and regalia changed and the Royal Ark Mariner Lodge was opened, same business, and we were in the bar for just after 7.15 pm, dinner and toasts over by 8.15 pm and on our way home shortly afterwards.