Our attention has been drawn to a serious error in the October Newsletter. On page 17 and 18 we have reported on the reception which was held in the Great Hall at Lincoln's Inn on 14th June 2011. The main heading which reads 'Lincoln's Inn Reception' is incorrect and should read 'Falkland Islands Government Reception at Lincoln's Inn'. There was a time when the FIA organised the event but since the establishment of the Falkland Islands Government office in London they have taken on this responsibility and the FIA assists with booking the Great Hall and makes a small contribution to the costs. We are all guests of the Falkland Islands Government at this event.

I have to admit that it was my mistake and apologise for the error. A correction and an apology will appear in the Spring 2012 Newsletter

The lapel badge for members of the Association has arrived. 2cm wide x 3cm fitted with a secure pin clip on the back they are available at £1.50p each plus £1 for post and packing from the Hon Secretary at 6 St Annes Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 6AU and they will be on sale at the AGM on 10th December 2011.

Birthday Greetings

A tweet from the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, reminds me that our Patron, The Rt Hon The Baroness Thatcher, celebrated her 86th birthday yesterday (13th October). I am sure all members of the Association wish her well and hope she had a happy day.

Who reads this?

Having mentioned this blog in my Hon Sec's note in the FIA Newsletter I wondered if the number of visitors to the blog would rise - a small blip has been recorded. 12 visits from the UK, 2 from Spain, 2 from India, and one each from Brazil, Germany and the USA.

I suspect the Indian visits may have resulted in the contact messages from the website from an Indian internet service provider offering to improve our profile on the internet.

Nobody has signed up as a follower so far as I can judge although that does require signing up to Google.

October Newsletter

After a frantic three weeks we have the October Newsletter printed and being packed for despatch to our members and others. I have received several address changes in the last three or four days - after the despatch lists were sent out so one or two copies will go astray although copies will be sent to the new addresses as well. I have already spotted one mistake, a word printed twice when once would have been enough! I won't tell you where so you will have to read it through. Despite my opening comments in the 'From the Secretary's Desk article' I didn't do it on purpose.

Venue for the AGM fixed at last

Whilst down in London last week I visited the London Scottish Regimental HQ in Horseferry Road to arrange our AGM after the Battle Day Ceremony in Whitehall on 10th December. I was also able to confirm that Just Joe's Catering who looked after us for many years before we went to the Union Jack Club will be handling the catering this year.

Now I can get the notices and booking forms out - this has been holding up the Newsletter which should be out later this week.

New Penguin News Website

Have just downloaded this weeks issue of Penguin News and discovered their new website has gone live. You can find it at http://penguin-news.com/. I thought how nice it looked and voted accordingly but when I checked the results of voting so far discovered that at 1300hrs BST 33 voters (46.5%) did NOT like it, 19 thought it Excellent, 9 voted for Good, 8 for OK and 2 Not Bad. That makes it 53.52% in favour. It will be interesting to see how the voting goes. I only have one comment concerning the download - the download files used to be named by date eg 20110909 which filed away nicely in date order. The new name pn16092011 doesn't and has to be changed so that it will file in order - I will let them know. There is an easy to use response form so lets hope any comments are posted there and not lost in the "Don't like it" vote