Reading University Caving Club

News just in – Mr Tim Morgan, residenti di Roma and caver extraordinaire will be back for good in the UK at the beginning of April

Good idea, but where exactly does one acquire a Sherbert Fountain in the Reading Area? Any sightings?

Radio 4 recently did a programme on caving and wildlife, on location in the Three Peaks. Still available online – see here

to you all. And to remind you what you’ll be missing over the Christmas break there half a dozen more photos in the “Caves’ photos, taken in OFD.

We have LOADS of new photos on the website. Firstly we finally have some decent photos of caves what we have done here. Secondly there’s some of the recent trip to the Chalk Mines of Central Berkshire – here.

There’s also some pictures of our recent ‘Pub Golf’ event here and finally some top election action here.

In case you weren’t able to join us last night, we took over a corner of a very nice restaurant to inflict speeches, faffing with banners/bits of paper and poor chopstick technique on the town bods of China Palace. Voting was by secret ballot, here are the results of the election for Secretary:

Henry Patton 11 votes
Oli Richards 12 votes

The committee would like to welcome Oli into his new position and congratulate you both for making this the closest election ever. The traditional incoming Vs outgoing pint downing in Bar Risa was a dead heat. Soon be time to do it all over again at Easter!

Note from webmaster: Congratulations. Have you been elected as ‘Secretarty’ or ‘Secretary’? May make all the difference to your behaviour.

At the pub this Monday we saw an amazing display of electionitis when two individuals decided they fancied being our new Secretary and spent the evening pursuading our experienced members to nominate them!

Cave bod: Henry Patton
Proposed by: James Salmons
Seconded by: Jon Kitching

Cave bod: Oli Richards
Proposed by: Paul Fellows
Seconded by: James Bouchard

How will it all work? The election for this post will be on Monday 17 November 03 and will take place at our social in town – see ‘Diary’ for Info. After our meal, the cave bods (candidates) will have the floor to tell us briefly why they should be Secretary, candidates leave the room, election will be by majority, with each caving club member having one vote – all fun lighthearted stuff. For full info regarding election to committee, please see ‘Resources’ and view The Club Constitution.

The existing committee wish you both good luck!

This weekend we mostly:

-saw some top ferret action
-mooned the canoe club
-traumatised the local children of Priddy Green

Oh, and did some caving.

Photograph of general stuff & caving are here

Photos of the halloween party are here

Photo’s of the clearly weird trip to Brunel to do ladder practice are here.

If anyone wants a decent quality copy e-mailed, as ever let me know. I’m about to reorganise the photos, if anyone wants anything posting now is a good time to tell me.

Next trip is 28-30 November, the University Caving bash. There’s a stomp, so it will involve jumping around like salmon on trampolines.

At the moment our Secretary position is up for grabs!
Responsibilities include booking accommodation and transport, ensuring new members sign the Code of Conduct, making a trip list for each club trip, (of course you don’t have to go on all the trips yourself) and finally you will have the privilege of joining us at Sports Fed Conventions (30 min meeting- usually involving a pint in Mondial) on Thursdays in wks 1,4 and 7.
Expect riveting election action soon!

ps the photos below are acually from Canada!

There’s been a mild update. A handfull of Oli’s Romanian Photos are now in the photo albums to your right. There’s some extra photos in the Caves photos, including Swildon’s Hole (next weekend!). There are new maps to the Queens Head & Brunel Uni on the Information Page. If anyone wants anyhting amended/added/obliviated please let me know.