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Home Counties prepare to hold their first post-lockdown meeting, writes Simon Euansmith
THE Home Counties EBA will be hosting its first meeting for several months this Sunday (July 26). The venue will be Watford Cricket Club Pavilion, Woodside Playing Fields, at the back of Woodside Leisure Centre, Horseshoe Lane, Watford. Doors open at noon, with the meeting due to commence at 1pm. Writing in the current newsletter, Chairman Bob Williams admonishes: “Wash hands and use hand sanitiser regularly, keep social distancing, respect those around you. If you have underlying medical conditions or are one of our valued senior members, please stay at home. We value your safety. Also please inform us if you are attending and how many are joining you. If you have a mask please wear it. Looking forward to a great meeting with champions attending.”
That’s all such good advice. After all this time, everyone wants to get back to normal and start enjoying things like monthly meetings but we all need to be so careful. The point about the senior members is hard but makes sense. We simply have to take the long view. I hope the meeting goes well and I’d be delighted to get a report – from Home Counties and any other EBA that holds a meeting. Let me know how things go. Hopefully no problems will arise, but if they do please tell me, and, most importantly, how you dealt with them. That will be so useful for other Associations contemplating starting up again. The newsletter goes on to say that Home Counties’ August meeting has been put back to the 26th, venue to be announced.
In the current London EBA newsletter, Seconds Out, LEBA Secretary Ray Caulfield announces that London hope to meet on September 6. Nothing’s confirmed – it will be a case of speaking to the William Blake management and then, if they are agreeable in principle, getting a Risk Assessment (as required by law). But let’s hope. Ray goes on to say: “Your committee are still in touch with many of our members by phone, to see how they are and have a chat, and it is great that so many of you are in constant touch with each other and that you are all doing well.” This keeping in contact is so important. Elsewhere in the newsletter, committee member Bob Cheeseman says: “I managed
EVERYONE WANTS TO GET BACK BUT WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL