Interest in the local club...

Some of you reading this blog (and I can count you all on one hand) will be aware that the local club is having an internal debate about the potential for new hangers to be built next door to the clubhouse/club hanger. What ever the way the final decision falls it sure has been instructive about how quick folk are to resort to personal attacks. Sad really. Good grief - I have been excused of a lack of independant thought, imagine that!! Another person, who some would claim is somewhat delusional, has decided that the club is run purely for personal gain...so what are annual elections for I wonder!!! It gets worse...the chief supporter is likely to be paid to build said hangers...but no conflict of interest...yeah right. The club President has decided to stay neutral and have no views what so ever...so much for holding a leadership position. So what can we make of this? On a positive note it shows that members are still actively interested in what happens around their club. That's good. Short of maybe one conflict of interest, I think everybody else is thinking about the issue in terms of the long term interest of the club. Human nature means people get passionate about things...that's one of things that makes us different from other species. Unfortunately the other difference is our inability to avoid emotive responses... What we all need is a jolly good flying day...wave and ridge or lots of thermals. so when is this going to happen? Not anytime soon unfortunately. But the skiing is good. Weather forecasting will resume when its worthwhile. PS I've brought a Spot. So you'll be able to keep track of GNM on http://map.xinqu.net/spot/index.html Select Matamata in the drop down menu at the top left. I see Roy and Sandy Griffin have also registered their Spots so it could be an interesting summer.