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

I would like to thank everyone that came down to Hayling Island to help celebrate Brian Miller, Sandra Stuart and my own birthdays, Brian shares the same day as myself while Sandra is a week or two later. Quite a coincidence, it must have been all those Christmas black-outs we had a few years ago! In particular I would like to thank Brian's wife Ann for the fantastic Morgan cake she did for us; it was just amazing! It also tasted fantastic! Ann worked very hard on the cake indeed, I know everyone that had a piece enjoyed it very

At the time of writing (late August 04) I had missed our picnic at the river Thames having been away on holiday and our big event of the month our trip to the Peak District was still to happen. Due to printing deadlines I couldn't risk writing this report while travelling back from Derbyshire, also bearing in mind the likely strenuous nature of the expedition. We shall hear more about the Peak District excursion in months to come and of course Heidi Miller will be reporting fully for Thames Valley Centre News. As regards to the picnic I understand it

On the day of our scenic run for cancer charities I learnt of the sad loss of Robert Watson's wife Jennifer.  Robert has  been taking great care of Jennifer during her illness, for Robert and his family it has been a very sad time indeed. Robert and Jennifer have been members of the Centre for some years and in the early days we used to go to their pub the Rose and Crown on the outskirts of Wycombe.  I remember Robert and Jennifer used to attend many of our Centre events, Jennifer in particular used to enjoy her runs out

On behalf of the Centre I would like to congratulate the Morgan team and their outstanding achievement at the Le Mans twenty-four race this year.  The Centre was fairly evenly split between those going to Le Mans and folks going to MOG 2004. Fortunately we had our Thames Valley Centre Newsletter roving reporter Heidi Miller based at MOG 2004 and our Foreign Correspondent Helen Thorne at Le Mans. Heidi and Helen kept in touch throughout the twenty-four hours exchanging up to date text messages! Heidi and I spent the last exciting hour of the race next to the loud speaker