A mob of Galas

Saturday

No rest for the wicked just because it's the weekend. Meetings from 9 to 6 today.

There were a lot of motions including some controversial ones. I think I was on the "winning" side all day.

I had proposed a series of motions on social groups, such as Facebook, which were revised multiple times but in the end all passed.

Danish Mensa sprung a surprise on us (in particular on the Web Board) by presenting a Mensa website template that could be used by any group. They were happy to provide for free despite spending 10,000 euros to develop. It was a a generous offer and a very useful tool for new Mensas or any Mensa that needed to update their website. Unfortunately nobody knew about it and I know that, in the last year, Singapore developed their own new system, NZ is part way through doing likewise and we, in Australia, have just bought a commercial system.

The gala dinner was held in the chapel. THis has been refurbished as a dining room with changing coloured lights and alcoves for conversation along one wall.

These affairs are one of the few times that people get dressed up.

There was a 3 course set dinner with some puzzles to occupy us between courses. One showed 7 flags and we had to pick the countries - we scored 0.I was expecting to do better since I had set a similar puzzle myself for our Australian gathering last year.

I retired about 11.

Spain, Belgium and Australia

The web board meets face to face for the first time. Britain, Germany, Italy and Australia.

A toast to Absent friends. Canada, Germany (via photoshop) and Australia