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Post by tyler on Mar 18, 2015 23:19:26 GMT
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Post by billmcelligott on Mar 19, 2015 21:38:03 GMT
Looking very smart , one and all.
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Post by offramp on Mar 20, 2015 14:55:43 GMT
I intend to join Pride of Surrey Mark & RAM this year. These meet at Sutton but I might meet you around the province.
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Post by tyler on Mar 20, 2015 17:48:14 GMT
I know PoS Mark and Mariner very well (they meet on the same day as do now all M&M lodges in Surrey) as well as their Lodge and Chapter. The M&M members are a great bunch, even if they are small in numbers compared to mine. Infact the Master Elect who will be installed in their Mark on Tuesday was recommended to them by me. He happens to be in my Craft Lodge in Sutton (that meet on a Saturday and do old West End ritual, similar to Taylors - most welcome to come 3rd Sat in May a 3rd - and Kintore is the Monday following) and he is also craft ProvTyler. I persuaded him to take up tyling and he is doing a great job. Unfortunately I cannot make that meeting as I will be flying out of Rio that evening... but will be raising a glass or two to him and the brethren on the big bird in the sky. Hopefully will catch up with you around the Province or elsewhere but do spend most of my time now in France s&f
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Post by tyler on Mar 20, 2015 18:10:46 GMT
I got my facts wrong... PoS was last night... comes of being too long in the heat of Rio..... They even raised a glass to me last night.... and there was me thinking it was next week... must have changed the date is my excuse.. or is it old age
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Post by offramp on Mar 24, 2015 15:38:41 GMT
I have this day made overtures to the Secretary of a MMM (& RAM) Lodge based at Sutton. It's the RAM I'm most interested in, as I mentioned in the famous thread, "It's the RAM I'm most interested in".
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Post by offramp on Mar 25, 2015 12:54:50 GMT
One reason I'm intending to join Pride of Surrey is that there is, in that name, a Craft Lodge and a RA Chapter (9167), lodges of Mark & RAM (1738), a Rose+Croix chapter (1100), Red Cross of Constantine (414), Knights Templar Priests (184), Cryptic crosswords (168), Thomas of Acon (93), Order of the Secret 22in Monitor (118), AMD (128) and I think there may be others.
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Post by tyler on Mar 28, 2015 8:59:28 GMT
Morning, back from the heat of Rio to the cold of France. Forgive me if you already know this but you have to be advanced into Mark before you can go into RAM. I am sure Ray and Mike will be pleased to have received communication from you. If you do not hear from them soon let me know and I'll contact them, as I mentioned in another thread both are not too well at the moment. I shall be back in GLC land mid April most welcome to come to Copthorne in Sutton in midmay and meet the new Master of PoS Mark s&f
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Post by offramp on Mar 30, 2015 13:08:47 GMT
I have indeed been advanced into both Mark and RAM. In 2003. It was in London, Isma 996 (same number for both, obviously).
This Lodge is still going and meets at a club I happen to be a member of: the Civil Service Club on Scotland Yard!
I'm not in good standing with them, though. Does it matter that I'm in Surrey and they are in London?
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Post by tyler on Mar 31, 2015 15:27:33 GMT
Hi from a quite warm Vendee, been nice out in he garden. Now I ought to know the answer to this having been Secretary etc for umpteen years, but I think I am right in saying that it only matters when you have an Initiate/Advancee etc....joining members it doesn't matter (If I'm wrong I am sure someone will enlighten me) and anyway you live in Surrey and Joining in Surrey so the Secretary doesn't have to use rule.......? of the BoC No doubt Mike or Ray will sort it out. (I will however for my own benefit ask my own Secretary who happens to be a Deputy ProvSec.
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Post by offramp on Apr 4, 2015 16:47:13 GMT
The Secretary of Pride of Surrey Mark is already making enquiries.
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Post by offramp on Aug 13, 2015 10:24:50 GMT
Well, the industrious Secretary of PoS made enquiries to Isma Mark & RAM and it seems I owed two years payment for each which came to £48. I have paid that so I will be sent a clearance certificate for both orders soon. Then I will be clear to rejoin Mark & RAM in Surrey, ie Pride of Surrey.
The moral is, don't fall into arrears. Quit your Lodge, if you have to, with a letter and save everyone future heartache. But if you DO fall into arrears then do not think that that is the end of the world - there is a way back into the Craft and its sister orders, and it may not be as expensive as you think.
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