Mumsnet Village Hall - committee members and volunteers needed

[FavouriteMug]

I've got the keys and we've got the entire building to ourselves. There's a kitchenette with a large enough fridge for Gin (maybe milk if absolutely necessary).

I need committee members and volunteers to organise a packed social calendar.

On the agenda for first meeting:

The Mumsnet Play - we need to agree on the script and then we can start casting

Life Drawing Class - we need a subject and smocks of course

Cake and Gin night - cant decide which night but I think gin should be funded from play proceeds.

Hot Desk Space - those of us who work from home can come together once a week and pretend to be busy and important.

Excercise Class - but what? We don't actually need to turn up but it should at least appear on the calendar.

Book Club - I can't be arsed so someone else will need to volunteer for this.

So, whose in and what can you contribute?

[quote poshme]@NeverDropYourMooncup you're right about all that. But no one ever wants to be treasurer. So I've got my role without any voting or discussion. Everyone was just Jolly pleased that I'd taken it on. [/quote]
Well, quite - but that does require you to be nominated and seconded to be duly elected as Chair of the Finance Committee - so although nobody else has come forward for election, you need to leave the room for a short period so that the other members can talk about the unfortunate incident with your first husband and That Sort Down Chapel Close leading to the number of empty gin bottles seen in your green bin each Sunday morning discuss the nomination and vote.

Whilst we're here, though, could we note that Brown Owl and Father Matthew are both rather irate that the top of the 7th Muchdrinking-in-the-Afternoon Pack's Toadstool appears to have been removed from the eleventh shelf up in the cleaning cupboard and placed upon the head of the Blessed Virgin in the Lady Chapel, along with the feather boas from the 1976 performance of Cabaret?

Before deciding on a song we had better check which notes don't work on the piano.

[quote 100problems]@BorisBooster that ended badly when a certain WI Chair had too many gin fizzes and made an ill-advised move on Roger from the Rotary. Of course, she blamed her booster. Again. [/quote]
Now I can tell you a few stories about Roger and his antics at the Golf Club !

I’ll do Pilates classes, there’ll need to be good coffee though.

I've had a clear out of my Tupperware cupboard and put it all some of it into the cupboard above the kettle so that everyone can use.

Similarly my husband's vest drawer. The cleaner can use them for dusters.

@NeverDropYourMooncup fair point

@NotMeNoNo

Before deciding on a song we had better check which notes don't work on the piano.

Going by last year's performance of Bach's Passion, I suspect that it might be slightly quicker to ascertain which notes do actually work.

Oh FFS! Has anyone checked the Committee shared email tonight? The sodding PTA want to use the Hall on a Monday evening.

Oh, that didn't take too long.

We need to research and appoint an official composer. And then set our requirements, namely that any anthem needs to be in the key of B sharp minor half diminished with a sharp 7th, flat 13th and a suspended 22nd in the Tonic chord.

@100problems

Oh FFS! Has anyone checked the Committee shared email tonight? The sodding PTA want to use the Hall on a Monday evening.

That's because they've been banned from the school hall !

Never mind the bloody song for a minute. We need to head off the PTA unless you all want to be dragooned into yet another Fayte worse than death

If the PTA is being fun by that Diptheria Hydrangea woman , don't let them have it. She rigged the nativity last year so that her son was Mary.

Once PTA have access to our hall then that's it ... they've infiltrated us !

I will bring a wheelie bag full of wine, gin and champagne whenever it is needed....most likely for the Thursday morning committee meeting which has now been moved to 7pm on Friday

Put me down to sell the raffle tickets

I'll run the toddler playgroup, I have the experience and an up to date dbs. How does Wednesday and Friday morning sound?

Can someone make the flyers for me?

@Mrsmadevans

Put me down to sell the raffle tickets

Someone needs to organise raffle prizes. Do we have an organising committee for the raffle ?

I would like to organise a Model Railway Group. We could use the small side room and have it coming out through a tunnel into the main hall and back again.

I can run round local businesses and try for raffle prizes. I'm very socially inept and will definitely rub them all up the wrong way while belittling them, then slag them off for not being generous .

It could be known as the MNers welfare club

Can anyone help decipher the wifi password?

On the slip of paper on the notice board it looks like thegentssmellsofwee but it's not working?

@BouleBaker worse. Diphtheria got ousted and now it's "Kind" Laura; the one that used to be in Corporate HR and weaponises her Audi Q5 to get the space by the door at Waitrose.

@Politics4me

I would like to organise a Model Railway Group. We could use the small side room and have it coming out through a tunnel into the main hall and back again.

Last time the Railway Group used the hall they're was a crash on the tracks which fused the electrics , lights were out for 24 hours. ! Had to cancel the Local History Society that evening and they've never forgiven us

I will also need the hall and garden for a week long Scout camp in August. Everything else will have to he cancelled of course.

[quote 100problems]@BouleBaker worse. Diphtheria got ousted and now it's "Kind" Laura; the one that used to be in Corporate HR and weaponises her Audi Q5 to get the space by the door at Waitrose.[/quote]
Oh blimey. She's not the one who "reserved" the entire front row of the carol service for her family is she? The Headteacher was most put out that she had to sit at the back.