Hi Brian.
C'est La Vie, indeed, times change and the club, to succeed needs to
change as well, sometimes not all for the best.
Remember talking to Peter a few months before he passed away, he and
Heather were leaving the hospital as I arrived, had an enjoyable 15/20
minute chat. The changing face of both Morgans and the Club were
discussed, very interesting indeed.
Sadly, my health still not too good, got the old heart sorted out,
bionic with a pacemaker, but now gall bladder and pancreas rearing
their ugly heads, in and out of hospital, haven't been able to have a
drink or drive since before Easter, hopefully an operation at the end
of the moth will sort matters out. After some 10 years the ME was
progressing well, hope to get to some meetings later this year.
Hope you are keeping well,
Cheers,
Chas..
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian <[email protected]>
To: mogtalk2 <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:36
Subject: RE: [mogtalk2] Miscellany
Hi ChasI trust you are well. You do predate me by several years as I
joined in1968 and have enjoyed all my years with a great bunch of
folk!Like Chas I also edited Miscellany around 99,2000 when Cliff Baker
retiredand just before Charles Neal. I do have every copy since it
became aregular monthly magazine in 1976. It has changed considerably
over theyears, firstly the small A5 magazines although convenient in
size weregetting to fat! You try keeping them open at a page and
copying in achallenge.The change to a new format came about under the
last year of Chris Rowe andCliff Baker's take over and the idea of
moving to colour would need a changeof printer. The then printers were
primarily a business card type ofoutfit. We first moved to part colour
which made layout extremely difficultand frustrating as we wanted to
maximise the use of colour with photos.With modern technology full
colour printing became affordable and we nowproduce a magazine I am
proud to be a part of. I will not deal with theeditorial side as this
is mainly Charles Neal's province.The common complaint is too much
advertising. We it is around a third (20pages) of commercial
advertising. All "Club" adverts for events, badges etcare not included
in this figure and I see as an important part of themagazine, it is a
"Club" information tool. The commercial advertising paysa good
percentage of the cost of production. The main headache is the
everincreasing postage costs! As to the content of advertising this is
ofcourse up to the advertisers some use professional designers some do
itthemselves sending in pdf files of the finished copy and some send an
emailwith text and photos and let me sort out. I quite enjoy that
part.The change in "type" of member has changed considerably and we
often commentin HopMog that we are becoming a dining club. But I am
afraid that is theway life is, although having worked on my Morgans in
the past it is notsomething I enjoyed and in later years more than
happy to leave toprofessionals and a total lack of either garage or off
road areas made thisessential. I know by reading these emails that a
lot of you still do enjoyworking on your Morgans but becoming fewer in
number and with all the newelectronics on the engines it is becoming
impossible to work on without agreat deal of up to date equipment and
knowledge.And of course Miscellany reflects these changes so more
emphasis on tripsabroad and dinners and less on the mechanics.C'est La
Vie I am afraid.Must get on with the June magazine now.BrianPixham
Moderator and Deputy Miscellany editor-----
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