Somewhat surprisingly, I was not consulted by either Buckingham Palace or 10 Downing Street before the decision was made to hold Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee holiday weekend over our traditional reunion date of the first full weekend in June. One has to wonder if she really has been reading the loyal greetings we have sent her for the last 50 years! Nevertheless, we Fortysixers may be grey and doddering but we remain flexible and the Eighty Fifth was very successful with 63 sitting down to a most enjoyable evening. The number of Ladies taking Supper continues its encouraging upward trend with 16 enjoying the excellent meal prepared and served by the outstandingly supportive Mess staff.

Dinner:

The following members took dinner :

David ADAMS Andy ADAMS Dave ALLEN Gus APPLEYARD Dick ARSCOTT

John AUSTIN Dougie BARR David BENNETT Sam BOOKER Barrie CHEVERTON

 Andy CLARK Peter CROUCH David CRWYS-WILLIAMS Bob DUNCAN Colin EDWARDS

 Bob EVANS Vic FAULKNER Colin GOWER Don GRAHAM John GREEDY

 Pete HOOD Chris HOSEA George KIRK Graham LAURIE Derek LIDDELL

 Tim LILES Derek LONG Eric MARSH Ian MASON Brian MERRITT

 Chas MORGAN Dave ORRINGE Anthony PARKER Simon POYNDER Stuart PRIEST

 Jeff SAUNDERS John SCAMBLER Mac SIBBALD Chris TAYLOR Ken TEAL

 Mike THATCHER Mike TOM Bill TURNBULL Pete WALSH Dick WARD

 George WARDEN Tony WARNER Gus WEEDON Des WHITE Russell WILSON

 Keith WILSON Peter WOODHAM

 The following guests took dinner :

 Charlie Appleyard Guest of Gus APPLEYARD

 Geoffrey Tantum John Casson Guest of David BENNETT

 Ken Tibbles Chris Perkins Guest of Graham LAURIE

 Cary Sand Dick Taplin Guest of Ian MASON

 Paul Morgan Guest of Chas MORGAN

 Mark Barnett Guest of Ken TEAL

 Stuart Turnbull Guest of Bill TURNBULL

 Jamie Wilson Guest of Russell WILSON