Thu, 23 Oct 2003

Dear ICOLS

I was just re-reading G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown story 'The Queer Feet' and thought that this description could well apply to our own organization, it is a description of The Club of The Twelve True Fishermen. "The society had a vast number of ceremonies and observances, but it had no history and no object; that was where it was so very aristocratic. You did not have to be anything in order to be one of the Twelve Fishers; unless you were already a certain sort of person, you never even heard of them."

Hope this may amuse the troops.

Yours most sincerely

Adrian Dannatt

Tea Person

Department of Global Nostalgia