The AGM 2025 - Puerto Banus

These minutes will be brief, mainly as the person writing them was not there to enjoy the trip. The CEO, Brian Henslow, missed his first AGM ever. Pathetic excuse, his daughter was getting married and would have taken it askance if he sent a stand in to walk her down the aisle!

So the minutes will be restricted to a couple of pics and a set of truncated accounts. Accounts first.

ACCOUNTS 2024/25: Ron decided not to send me a list of the individual meeting costs but did comment that NICK'S 'take away grub' meeting contributed the most to a modest surplus. We started the year with £5,608 and ended it with £5,889, not bad considering we budgeted an extra £1,100 on meeting spend.

If further proof that the new meetings system really does work then look no further. AND we had a whole load of excellent meetings in the year. I have actually listed them in the OCTOBER minutes for your enjoyment.

And so on to what I think happened in Puerto Banus.......................

Everyone made the plane and got safely to Spain ......... No wait. Not everyone made it. Ron was a late drop out. Reason: Ron thought it perfectly normal that when in Verona (as in Gentlemen of said Italian town, Shakespeare) you put everything valuable in a backpack - phone, passport, money, credit cards. And when you fancy a gelato you drop said backpack on a chair and queue up for said iced lolly. Thus rather predictably losing all your lolly to a passing toerag! No passport, no travel senor!. So Ron was a much missed no show.

Everyone else made it. And enjoyed a succession of lunches, dinners, golf and sunbathing. Plus a bit of kip on the side.

Of course, not all the time was spent sleeping, eventually Hugh woke up as a reinvented trendy version of his former self. Not a scrap of Diggerland branded clothing to be seen in the new ensemble. That's a first! Looking good!!

Still wearing the trendy gear at one of the long lunches between rounds of golf.

And another lunch at another trendy location, this time a beach club.

Of course the observant among you will have spotted the deliberate mistake?? And I don't mean Pete still wearing the same shirt! .................... Answer below.

So another excellent AGM, this year organised by Owen, and only poor Brian was missing from the normal crew. Well - and Ron, obviously.

ANSWER: For the hawk eyed among you, not only is Pete wearing what must be his go to holiday shirt, but Brian and Ron are magically sitting together at the AGM table. How was this miracle achieved? By mistakenly including a picture from the AGM when we last went to PB, that's how.

We are looking forward to next year.