Membership Cards and Sites Directories

I was once told by a wise Lady-‘there is no cure for a bibliophile. . .Gladly’ I respect that but it ain’t for me. Edevices like Kindle are a godsend for me. Maps only online & Satnavs-I’m the polar opposite of bibliophile. We are what we are😊

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Yes I download books to my iPad for reading while away. The electronic public library is a real money saver.

BUT I do like books. Irrespective of new club site I like to browse the handbook and find that easier than the web. If looking for sites in a specific area I would probably use the internet. And yes, real maps are so much more helpful if telling you about the area you are driving through, not just the route. Without looking at a map, just using a sat nav is like flying blind.

Books…….love them. We still have six bookcases, and three shelves of books in our house, despite having a good clear out. Some are worth money, some are merely favourite authors that we return to over and over again. When we used to leave our van in Cornwall, using it as a seasonal on a CL, we used to have to take a box or two of books home before we dared tow the van back🤣

I do like my Kindle and IPad for books as well now though, space and weight saving in MH. And I have dozens of audiobooks as well on my iPad. Currently collecting the Aubrey/Maturin nautical books of Patrick O Brian.

I do collect Ward Lock Red Guides, brilliant for an alternative peek into tourist areas. Don’t know if these are around digitally🤔

Funny (in a good way) how this was wandered off into books v electronic devices.

If I have to learn something new then it's a book and paper, to highlight here and there and make notes with. I suppose it's just the way I started. If I have to do a 'desktop review' of a school I'll print anything I need out, though I'll type anything up.

Reading I'm into both, we have a whole large bedroom room full of bookcases with them (was a child's bedroom but we now call it the library) but I'm probably more into Kindle as it always remembers where I'm up to, it has all my books on it and I can find one easily and I can still read if I've misplaced my glasses, and of course its library is portable but books are still first, in fact if I really like a book I'll have the real and on Kindle, and of course when given or received as presents they become more far  personal often with a treasured dedication either by the author or giver. I'll give a real book as a present but wouldn't dream of giving a Kindle edition. One of my best memories is seeing an original Newton's Principia up close.

I've already posted this holiday about maps.

But it's horses for courses, in booking a site or holiday it is in my view far easier and quicker, certainly more up to date, to use something online than something similar to a club handbook.

Well having contacted Head Office via email and confirmation and reply to do not send Site Directory 2023/4 it has arrived at our posting address in UK so OH has told them to recycle it as we have different options on what to do with the post and it would have cost quite a bit to send here.  Heyho not a happy bunny and cannot be bothered to contact HQ again.

Not good to post things abroad from here at the moment RedKite, Royal Mail have asked us to refrain due to a cyber attack. 

I think you can check via your profile on the club site that you are recorded not to receive handbook. Hope that makes sense. I assume the directories were sent out by some mailing company so they will have been given the addresses some time ago, maybe before you notified the club. 
With some organisations when you change options or details they tell you that it can take 14 days (or similar) before it might come into effect. It’s a pity the club emails are not a bit more nuanced and actually reply to what you have told them. So in this case it might have been necessary to say they had already authorised despatch.

I’m just guessing of course.

Profile preferences don't always get through to the relevant server, as I found out this time last year. I e-mailed the club to query why I wasn't receiving monthly newsletter by e-mail. After various staff members checked my profile settings and said it was selected (each time someone checked I received an e-mail to say my settings had been saved). Eventually I received a phone call in March when I was setting up on site to say he had found it wasn't selected on the server that dealt with newsletter e-mails and did he have my permission to change it? Obviously the servers aren't talking to each other as the should. I am not the only one who's had this problem, as other members have reported the same.

brue yes we do know about that as seen on UK news and we are not expecting anything at present, I think you put a link re contacting HQ which I did and did get reply 24 hours later but as everything was updated but not the request re Sites Directory as said earlier it will be recycled as we do not need it anymore only looked at the old one twice in 2 years.

Thanks Hja as you say it could have been sent by the time HQ got back to me, hopefully it will not be sent for 2025/2026 seasons.