Peter's Excellent Suggestion


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Posted by Andy Morley on April 29, 1999 at 07:30:09:

Peter Hyland's idea below about holding a levée is an excellent one, although I realise he meant it humorously rather than as a serious proposal. However, I think it would be a good idea to have a weekly levée, selecting someone to hold it who does not normally contribite to TarBoard, but who may have some new and different angle that we would not normally benefit from.

Not all of us are as accustomed as Peter and me, and some of the others here, to using this online form of communication, but many such 'lurkers' will have much that would be interesting to hear. The details of the idea would need to be hammered out, but basically everyone else would have to agree to be extremely attentive and nice to the person who would be holding it, so that they could develop their ideas freed from the anxiety that they might be shot down in flames. As this is not a Madame de Sévigny bulletin board, I don't think we should go as far as to appoint valets of the bed-chamber etc. However, the word 'Levée' does have a Ransome connection - I have seen at least one photograph of the great man standing on a levée

It so happens that I will have staying at my house as from tonight and over the weekend, someone who has never ever used the Internet, and who is a full-blown five star Norfolk Wherry skipper. But I don't want to impose my candidate, and in the interests of securing participation I would be delighted to save him for another time if someone else would come forward. So, does anyone share my enthusiasm for Peter's idea..?



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