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Vol XXIV No.9
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September 1975
No. 334
QUODCUMQUE FACIENDUM : NIMIS FACIEMUS CONTENTS Editorial Club Officer’s Reports
Climbing Report Treasurer’s Report B.B. Report Tacklemaster’s Report
African Journey Letter to the Editor Crossword No. 60
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Any views expressed by any contributor to the Belfry Bulletin, including those of officers of the club, do not necessarily coincide with those of the editor or the committee of the Bristol Exploration Club, unless stated as being the view of the committee or editor.
OWING TO THE FACT THAT CLUB OFFICERS ARE LIKELY TO BE CHANGED AT THE FORTHCOMING A.G. M., THE USUAL LIST HAS BEEN OMITTED FROM THIS B. B.
Editorial HOW BIG IS THE B.E.C.? At the time of writing, rumours have it that the membership of the club is falling. If this is really so then it is something of which we should perhaps take note. However, it is always difficult to predict just how many members, who have ignored all the warnings will still pay their sub eventually, and it may well turn out that by the time of the dinner that we are once again back up to full strength. Rumour also has it that some members have objected to the various letters which have been sent out. If these objections are based on the actual wording of such letters then it is probably due to the fact that those who have had the job of composing them are not professionals at this art! If, on the other hand, it is the letters themselves which have been objected to, then one must, in my opinion, bear in mind the fact that committee must have as much information as possible in order to balance the books in these inflationary days. We hope that members will perhaps take this point. BACK AGAIN Your editor has recently received a letter from Sybil who is now back in the locality and writes to say that she will be pleased to see any club members who would like to look her up. Her address is 9 Beverley Close, Critchill Park, Frome, Somerset. IT'S A RUDDY FINE SONG Correspondence is still arriving on the somewhat controversial subject of reviving the old Hunters Singsong and there is one aspect of all this which has not so far been mentioned by any of the writers. In the days when the singsong was a regular Saturday night affair, there existed a hardcore of those who knew the same words and the same tune to any particular song. On occasions, they even sang it all in the same key as well. When, as often happened, a group of people arrived with a rival version, they usually got the chance to sing it afterwards and a general decision was made as to which version would be sung in future. By this sort of process, for example, a later version of 'Cathuselum' was adopted while a later tune to 'The Portions' was