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Some events will require the prospective bookstalls to tender to pitch their stall.

It is clear that the business model (if there is one) is hugely variable.

Maybe FF is a script writer for Donald T. ?

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 17, 2019 7:24 pm

Francis may have meant Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary, which he has mentioned before -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Diction ... h_Language

Is this the same dictionary that famously missed out

Contrafibularity, PERICOMBOBULATION, Anaspeptic, Frasmotic and Interfrastically ?

Hi Simon - is it a good thing that large multinational corporations are allowed to get away with low ethical standards? Most sensible people would say that forcing people to work in inhumane conditions, diverting local water supplies to service bottling plants etc was not a good thing! This is a fi...

Richard James wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:58 am

John Upham wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:26 am

Richard Pert "is" Richard Grivas Pert but the Grivas was removed be Deed Poll according to Nick.

Giscard, not Grivas. likewise Nicholas Giscard Pert.

Thanks Richard : more speed less haste.

Tim Onions runs a junior oriented bookstall at many junior events. I suspect there is more buying from the bookstall at junior events than adult events where people think it is acceptable to handle books and then order them from Amazon.

John, David W Anderton is David William Anderton Sarah Hegarty is Sarah Natasha Hegarty Matthew Wadsworth is Matthew J Wadsworth Raymond D Keene is Raymond Dennis Keene Chris W Baker is Christopher Wallace Baker Mark l Hebden is Mark Lesland Hebden Simon JB Knott is Simon John Bradley Knott Chris G ...

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Mon May 27, 2019 5:33 pm

John Upham wrote: ↑

Mon May 27, 2019 5:17 pm

The name that springs to my mind, at least, is

George Dickson

Forgive me if I am quite wrong, but do you mean George Leyton?

Aha ! Yes, I think you are right Nick.

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Mon May 27, 2019 3:29 pm

who owed the right to the club Name?

The name that springs to my mind, at least, is

George Dickson


I suspect he was one of the very earliest members.

I have to admit I thought Informator had bought it and was considering getting a copy to see if I liked it. Paul, Ownership can be discovered from https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00334968/officers But who exactly constitutes Fryern Company Secretarial Services Limited? They are the firm ...

I have to admit I thought Informator had bought it and was considering getting a copy to see if I liked it. Paul, Ownership can be discovered from https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00334968/officers SJL and SMT purchased BCM in September 19th 2005 and that purchase included three companies...

Have a guess at the total budget we were allowed for monthly magazine production... :shock: From this minuscule budget we had to pay (or not !) contributors, source photographs, typesetting, etc etc. I probably saved them 50p three years ago by declining to annotate a game of mine from a recent tou...

Of course the BCM hasn’t only just recently turned to cack. It’s been putrid for years. Well,decades imho, but certainly including John Upham’s time there I agree ! :D The best period for BCM was that of Brian and Freddy Reilly IMHO but others may disagree. The meetings we had with the business own...

BCM is still going, then? Who are its current owners? Just about. They are : Stephen Lowe (who has deep pockets) IM Shaun Taulbut (who I get on very well with) It would be interesting and amusing to ask Bernard Cafferty, John Saunders, Steve Giddins and Malcolm Pein to give their impressions of the...

On the subject of spelling, Jimmy Adams' attack on me in the BCM gives my name no fewer than 23 times. He misspells it every single time. - O.G. Urcan I suspect the "misspelling" of your name was deliberate as an attempt of what JBA might call humour. The fact that BCM chose to waste so much subscr...