How times change#

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:36:45 +0000

[[Back in February => This made me laugh]] I wrote about Citiskate and thefns.com and their slightly not-quite-in-agreement-with-everyone-else definition of what was an "official" web site with respect to the LFNS.

This week I got another mail from them (first one in a while, in fact) which says

FYI the no/go gets posted on thefns.com and any group or organisation that claims to be the 'official organiser' for an event that is not official are misinformed.

Let's pass over the minor consideration that two out of three times when I check it thefns.com is not even updated with the route, never mind an accurate weather call, but it's funny that they seem to have changed their tune about how official they are, isn't it? Wonder what caused that. They need to update their Yahoo groups page too, though, cos it still says it's the "the OFFICIAL weekly email [...] of London's three year round group skates" - which given that they've only sent 11 mails out this year (and the most recent one before today was May 4th) is obviously wrong on the "weekly" part never mind what you think about "official".

(If you are looking for a regular skating newsletter, by which we mean one that does actually send out once a week when it says weekly, I think you could do worse than the Week on Wheels - but I would say that, I write for it from time to time)

And now let's hope the rain clear up this afternoon because on the LFNS tonight I'm looking forward to riding the Firebrox. Which, if there was ever any doubt, was funded by marshals and private direct donations and if you thought your Paypal donations through Citiskate-associated web sites went anywhere near its building, rebuilding, storage or maintenance, um, sorry, no.

OK, rant over.