I am very pleased to be able to announce that on the evening of Saturday 23rd July, Pam and Mike Aldrich will be holding our Annual Centre dinner at the Grovefield House Hotel, Burnham. Please contact Pam and Mike if you would like to attend, menus for the evening should be available very soon. The hotel has some lovely grounds to enjoy before the dinner, on what should be hopefully, a warm summer's evening. I would like to thank Pam and Mike for organising this lovely night for us. On the Sunday evening of our New Forest bank holiday weekend,

On the Friday night of our New Forest bank holiday weekend, the New Forest Centre has challenged us to an evening of beer and skittles. Whether the emphasis is on beer or skittles I don't know, but I'm sure we should be good at both! With this event in mind I believe Steve Pullen and Brian Miller are looking into a local hostelry so that we can get some practice in. As soon as I have any details I will let up you know. Gerry Burkitt says he would like to lead the beer aspects of the team, clearly he

Bookings for our weekend in the New Forest - with a discounted visit to Beaulieu - are coming in thick and fast. I would like to thank New Forest for their support in this joint venture. Please contact Ann or Brian Miller as soon as you can, if you would like to go on this trip, our thanks our also due to Ann, Brian and Heidi for getting this exciting weekend together. Next month we have our visit to the Morgan Factory, please contact me if you would like to go as places are filling up! Also coming up is

I guess it is rather like searching for the next James Bond, or in our case Jane Bond, for sometime we have been looking for the right person, with the time, commitment, tenacity and drive to become the next Thames Valley Centre regalia officer, let's face it Geoff Giles and Jim Bellew are tough acts to follow! Well I am very pleased to be able to tell you, we now have found our new regalia officer, Jane Davies. Jane is well placed for the role, with her love of fashion, gold jewellery and fast cars. A suitable cocktail of interests

I hope everyone had a very happy Christmas. It is at this time of year that families are together for the holiday season. And naturally it is a time when we remember our lost love ones and friends. Just before Christmas I was very sorry to learn that Stuart Ross, our North American correspondent for Thames Valley Centre News, had lost his wonderful wife Barbara. They were together for forty-one years and both shared their love for Morgan cars through the Philadelphia Morgan Club and Rolls Royce motors with the Atlantic region of the Rolls Royce Owners club. Barbara passed

Well we are now in December, so I would like to wish all the readers of this Centre report a very happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year with above all good health! To celebrate we have a Christmas lunch at the Hampden Arms with Anita Pullen and I shall be running our Christmas Dinner at the Phoenix. These events are very special and set us up well for the festive season. They will be on our normal noggin days for these venues. Please contact Anita or myself if you want to go depending on which event you fancy, we