Today was my last meeting of the year. And is a strange similarity it was Clwyd College which also happened to be the first meeting of the Masonic Year.

Tonight, was going to be the end of “The Year of a Busy Mason”, on paper it looked as if I would start and finish at Clwyd College, but also the best laid plans of mice and men, and myself often go astray. I now have a committee meeting tomorrow which will end year 2.

I must say it was a great meeting to end on. The installation of a new Celebrant, and the first time I paraded into the meeting as a member of the third order, (I skipped it at Bishop Wilkins due to being the Secretary). The meeting was all you could hope for, a large group of people were there including lots of visitors. it was that perfect level between serious, and light heartedness. At one point the outgoing celebrant had a three way conversation with himself as Celebrant, Secretary, and Chief Adept (this last year was an odd occurrence, like planets coming into alignment)

Then our new Celebrant was installed, and he then gave us his Celebrants paper “Music, the second most important Liberal Art.” which was very informative, and included some actual playing of music. You can not beat a bit of the Beatles playing loudly to make sure everyone is awake.

Afterwards we enjoyed a lovely festive board, discussing topics of various subjects whilst catching up with old friends. 

We also proved again, that while the S.R.I.A. may be the intelligent order we can not sort out seating plans any better than the other orders. 

I am now ready for my summer break (2 months)