Editorial
New Year, and now is the time for mission statements and aspirational targets,
otherwise known as New Year Resolutions. As usual, we will commence with a
Review of Last Year's Resolutions, and now we are in for a surprise - we
kept them! Oh alright, the magnificent Simon Andrews kept them, with a little
assistance from The Other Editor. Read on...
LAST YEAR, the Crier resolved to go on the Web and asked for help with the great amount of work entailed. Having done that, it might be true to say it didn't do a great deal more. But Simon did! Alone, single-handedly, overwhelmed as he was by huge support from other well-wishers (as in NOT) you will see that the Crier now beams out to the four corners of the world (try Google), and its searchable archive has magically extended itself back to April 2004 - yes! Just type in "motor-bikes", "bonfires" or your own name even - maybe someone put something you missed!
So this Year's Resolution is: MORE STAFF, and get the Crier out on time... many thanks to Ruth Stinton and all our distributors who have had an unusually tough job recently.
The magazine has now been going 30 years, and this month we were very sorry to learn about the death of our founder, Canon Byrom. We would like to join with John Norris in paying tribute to this quite remarkable man - his memorial service will be on January 21st.
Take a look at our new advertisements (thank you advertisers) and... Happy New Year!