Oh what a picture! What a photograph!

I remember, many years ago, having a school lesson about family relations.  We looked at a book that had, at its cover, a great image of a wedding, with one family in bursts of smiles, and the other looking dissaprovingly across the newly-married couple at them.

It came to mind when I saw this image:

Smile!  I said SMILE!   Image: (C) EURAO.

Some interesting body language, there!  The two from IARU Region 1 are in the middle, flanked by EURAO chiefs. Interesting also the big step in age profile between the two organisations.  I always have more faith in those who are of working age and have to suffer life's daily troubles, rather than those who spend most of their time in the doctor's surgery, with a bit of committee-sitting in between.

There has been some well-documented and quite energetic antagonism between these two groups in the past couple of years.  Whilst they seem to have partly overcome this, there does rather seem to be a long way to go to achieve family unity, yet!  The only words they could come out with at the end of their December 2017 meeting were these.  They are, pretty much, the kind of empty, unproductive words I hope EURAO can transcend.

In the meantime, whilst everyone learns to get on, do enjoy Tommy Steele in 'Crash, Bang, Wallop'