I'd like to start this year by saying that, sadly, this is Nigel Hudson's final report as BBRC Secretary. After nine years, Nigel has decided to retire from Rarities Committee duty and enjoy life in Scilly. It is hard to overestimate the impact that Nigel has had on the way the Committee works, completing the transition from postal circulations (last used when Mike Rogers was Secretary), via the e-mail circulation system that Peter Fraser introduced, to the current system, where the voting is carriedout solely online. Managing that transition alone would have been impressive enough, but Nigel has introduced an automated system for producing the report, which not only improves the accuracy of what it contains, but has also reduced the workload for those involved in producing and editing the finished article. The efficiency of the systems that Nigel introduced allowed the report to be published earlier than had been the case for several years prior to his appointment. Our target had been to restorethe annual BBRC report to the November issue of BB, but Nigel's determination exceeded this schedule every year, with the report appearing in October in every year of his term as Secretary.
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