There are still tickets available for EuroPride 06:The Show, at the Royal Albert hall on Sunday 2nd July.

This is a unique one-off variety show, featuring Elton John, Stephen Fry, Tina C, Never the Bride, Graham Norton, Sir Ian McKellen, the companies of Avenue Q, Chicago, and Mamma Mia, London Gay Men’s Chorus, Julian Clary, Sandy Toksvig, and more.

To book tickets, visit the Royal Albert Hall website.

Yes, it’s taken a long time, and it’s still not complete, but the GLUG Gallery is back online.

In the left column on the GLUG website, you’ll see there is now a “Random Image”. This is picked at random from the GLUG gallery. Click on the photo, and you’ll be taken to the Gallery.

There’s no longer any need for seperate Gallery logins - your main GLUG website login will log you into the Gallery as well, and all GLUG members can now upload photos whenever they want to.

I’ll be adding a Gallery Link at the top of the page (where the other links are) in the near future.

If you have any questions about how to upload photos, email me, and I’ll do my best to answer them.

There is one space on the Farnes trip that has just become available. It would probably suit a chap best owing to the room sharing situation. Diving this Friday (30th June) until Monday 3rd July. If interested please contact Fiona asap!

Kirk tells me that so far he has only two volunteers for the GLUG stall at London Pride in Trafalgar Square on Saturday.

In a club where over half our members live in or around London, we really should be able to do better than this, especially in a year when London is hosting EuroPride. We’re not asking you to give up your whole day - even just an hour or so would help. Kirk and I have spent a lot of time preparing for this event - producing a new newsletter, getting leaflets printed, buying new T-shirts, etc., etc. It’s very disappointing when the rest of the club are too apathetic to show us some support.

Please, if you can spare even half an hour of your time on Saturday afternoon, contact Kirk and let him know. You can send him an email by logging into the site and clicking on the envelope at the top of his previous post, or by going to the “Contact Us” page, and selecting “The GLUG Newsletter” from the drop-down list.

Update: The same trip is being organised for May 26th-28th 2007
Hi all
Sark is one of the smallest of the Channel Islands. A truly fantastic experience to visit an island where there are no cars and the only means of transport is your bicycle. Don’t worry, our skipper will transport your diving equipment on his tractor to and from Creux Harbour to our accommodation.

Please visit:
http://www.sarkci.com/
and
http://www.visitguernsey.com/

Our skipper will arrange boat transfer to/from Guernsey harbour to Sark, leaving Guernsey on Friday evening and returning on Sunday – time to be arranged.

Accommodation will be for two nights at Le Grand Fort, a self catering cottage situated on the north coast of Sark – a mere 10 minutes cycle to the harbour. Ray, my dive buddy, if we ask him nicely, will do one of his speciality meals one evening in the farmhouse.

Two dives per day – with dive sites to be arranged. You will certainly be impressed with the excellent viz which is as good as the Mediterranean.

If you wish to make a long weekend in Guernsey, I can provide you with details of accommodation here in Guernsey.

Please note – adequate diving insurance is obligatory and I suggest that you have sufficient travel insurance for this event.

Cost per diver - approx GBP128 subject to 12 divers which can be broken down as follows:

2 dives per day GBP30 x 2 days = GBP60
Transfer to/from Guernsey Sark= GBP18
B&B accommodation x 2 night = GBP50

A deposit of GBP75 will be required with a refund only being made if the trip does not go ahead or if another diver can fill your place. Please send your cheque together with the attached booking form.

If you have any questions - just let me know and I will do my best to answer. (Log in, then click on the envelope at the top of the post to send me an email).

Hi all.

2 places have become available on The Southern Red Sea trip departing on 27th July. Please check out the link on the Events Page for more info. For now, the brief details are 7 days liveaboard on the brand spanking new Panorama Explorer, including flights, transfers, food, soft drinks and at least 4 dives per day-all for the bargain price of £649.

Please pass this information on to any members who may not visit this site that often.

Thanks.

Charlie Stewart

Due to Yo’s unfortunate accident, I now have a space left on the Scapa Flow trip this coming July. Cost of diving is £350 for 6 days, including B&B. Suitable for BSAC Sports/PADI Advanced upwards. If interested, please contact me asap.

As you’ve no doubt noticed, the GLUG website is sending emails again, whenever a new item is posted to the website.

The emails have been improved since their last incarnation - they now send the complete post within the email, in HTML (for the computer-illiterate, that’s what makes the email look pretty).

You may not want to be emailed for every post, and, as before, you can choose which post categories you want to be emailed about.

(Note to new members: each item posted to the website has a number of categories associated with it - chosen by the person who posted it).

To change your email subscription, please go to your Profile page - you’ll see the categories listed at the bottom of the page. Just remove the ticks for the categories you’re not interested in. Note: you cannot remove the tick for “Club Announcements”.

While you’re there, please click on “Your extended profile“, and check that your details are shown correctly.

Watch this space for details of the new Events Page and Contact Form - coming soon!

Neil.

Dear friends,
You may have heard that Yuk-King Wong (Yo or King) was injured on Friday when she was knocked off her motor cycle by a car. She has a broken ankle and a very broken arm.
She’s in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich (Ward 16) - visiting hours are 3pm-8pm - NO FLOWERS please as the hopsital deosn’t allow them due to fear of bacterialogical contamination.
I’m sure you’ll all join myself and the rest of the Committee in wishing her a speedy and full recovery

There is one space on Saturday 24th June and one space on Sunday 25th june on the Littlehampton trip. These can be taken as individual days - contact Corinne asap.

Rainbow-Scuba in Thailand are organising a weekend trip (2 days and 2 nights) going south of Phi-Phi island to visit the famous dives sites of Hin Dang and Hin Muang. Also stopping en route at Phi-Phi Islands; Shark Point; Koh Doc Mai. Seven dives in total. Full details and boat specs on their web site

14-16 October 2006
19,800 THB (Approx £280)

This trip starts and ends in Phuket and co-insides with Singapore’s big Nation V Party which attracts thousands of lesbian and gay people to Phuket for the weekend of 20-22nd October.

Are there any other members that work in Education and would like to organise a trip during a school holiday next year. Me and my partner are looking to go diving next Feb half term.

Any one interested let us know.

Glyn

Many people have expressed a preference for a T-shirt without Gay & Lesbian Wording, and so at Tuesday’s meeting, this design (shown right) was agreed on. (You can click on the logo to see a bigger version)

If you would like a T-shirt or Sweatshirt with this design embroidered on the breast, please send an email to tshirts@glug.co.uk giving your preferred style, colour, and size from the choices below (NB:sizes above XL cost 50p extra)

• Polo Shirt £13.00
  Jerzees Micro Pique 100% Cotton Polo shirt. Available in 10 colours and 8 sizes. Click here for full details.
• T-shirt £8.50
  Jerzees Silver Label T-shirt. Available in 31 colours and up to 8 sizes (depending on the colour). Click here for full details
• Vest £8.50
  Jerzees Mens Sports back Vest. Available in 5 colours and 5 sizes. Click here for full details

You’ll notice that there are many more garment styles available on the website. If there’s something specific you’d like (e.g. a Sweatshirt), give me the product code for it, and I’ll find out the cost - but I don’t want to bombard them with enquiries, so if you’re happy with the ones I’ve chosen, please stick to them.

I am looking into the possibility of organising a trip to the Southern Red Sea at the end of January 2007 on a liveaboard with oonas divers. Price will be approx GBP750. Before I make a commitment, if anyone is interested in this, can you please let me know. Looking for a minimum of 18 divers to make this viable.

Please leave a comment below if interested.

Yes, after a few days frantic reprogramming, the GLUG website is back up and running. It’s been updated to the latest version of the weblog software, which should mean that it’s secure once again.

It currently has a different look and feel to the old site - if you prefer it, let me know (you can comment below), but I’m working on returning the site to a similar look to the old one - this will be a work in progress over the next few weeks.

Likewise, you’ll find that certain areas of the site don’t yet work as they should. There’s a lot of work still to be done. Here’s my current “to do” list (not prioritised!):