(Sent to the Club 09/04/2024 @ 12.51)
Dear CMC Management Committee,
Please open http://www.chamois-mountaineering-club.org.uk and read its entire contents.
Best wishes,
Mel Owen
(A CMC founder member and one time President, Chairman, Treasurer, Meets Secretary, Membership Secretary, Newsletter Editor, and Life Member, inter alia)
(Sent by the Chairman 09/04/2024 @ 18.08)
Hi Mel
Thank you for the message and I hope all is well with you and your family. As the current chairman of the club I feel it is my duty to respond to you in that capacity but I would also like to take the time to respond to you in a personal capacity as someone who remembers you fondly from my time as a small child in the club and through my teenage years.
Firstly though as Chairman of the Chamois Mountaineering Club:
Nothing has changed since your last communications with the previous chairman James Scott. Should you wish to meet with the committee, discuss any matters relating to the club or be considered for membership again, you would firstly need to take down the quite atrocious and factually incorrect website that you have put up. Once that has been done the committee would almost certainly be happy to meet with you and discuss a way forward. A great deal of time has elapsed since you left the club and perhaps this is an appropriate time to “move on”. To do this you simply need to take down your website and inform us that this has been done. Unless you do this, there is nothing further to discuss.
My Own Personal Response:
I remember you very fondly indeed from my time at the club with my parents and both my mum and dad thought very highly of you. However I can be certain that they would both be shocked and deeply saddened by the levels you have stooped to with your website. I can be absolutely certain of this from my mum’s conversations when she was alive and I am only glad that my dad was never alive to see what you have written. Personally I think you have let yourself down a great deal here with your behavior and by leaving the website up for this number of years. Surely it is time to take the website down and allow yourself to move on. Many people in the club (myself included) would see that as a stepping stone for you to eventually rejoin the chamois club. You have previously faithfully served the club in numerous capacities over many decades and those efforts are not forgotten. I really think it is time that you laid down your sword and let your anger go. The only person you are hurting here with your website and continued animosity is yourself. Quite frankly I always remember you as a much better and bigger person than the content of that website shows you to currently be.
Please take this chance to find a way back to the club before it is too late and time runs out. None of us are getting any younger (and I say this as someone you have known when I was only a small child - I am now 51!). Surely you would like to take your website down and eventually revisit old friendships at the club and hut.
Thanks
Dave
(Sent to the Chairman 11/04/2024 @ 14.36)
Dear Dave,
Thank you for such a lengthy response, the content of which reveals that you have not opened, read, and digested the full contents of each webpage. If you had indeed read the entire website contents, you would be well aware of exactly how easily you could prove it to me.
You are condemning truthful facts without investigating them, even though they are supported by irrefutable evidence. The tone and contents of your response reveals that you would like the very many lies told about me to remain unchallenged in perpetuity. I cannot accept that.
If your committee either deals with the issues raised or proves them to be lies, the website will be promptly deleted, and that is a firm promise.
As far as I am concerned, it is far more important to get this issue dealt with correctly than speedily.
Yours sincerely,
Mel Owen
(Sent by the Chairman 11/04/2024 @ 14.51)
Hi Mel
Thanks for the reply. This will be my last response and the last response from the committee on this matter.
As stated you need to take down your website and then we can discuss whether or not you may be able to join the club again. Until that happens there can be no further discussion.
Once you have taken the website down please feel free to contact the club and we will be happy to discuss things further with you.
Kind regards
Dave Pinnington
Chairman
(Sent to the Chairman 15/04/2024 @ 10.56)
Hi Dave,
If you were to read the website, you would learn about the vicious war fought by Andrew against your Dad. How can you possibly justify siding with Andrew?
If you are determined not to personally read the website, can you not find a committee volunteer to do so and report back to the Committee?
Keep smiling, summer is on its way,
Mel
Chairman Dave Pinnington has very clearly not opened this website and read the contents. The evidence that this is true will be immediately spotted by anyone reading it.
No-one has the moral right to condemn published work that they have never read!
Dave’s reference to my alleged anger is false. I have never felt any anger towards the club, I am far too laid back for the Club to worry me at all.
My sole motivation is to ensure that the Club legally thrives, without vicious vendettas being allowed to go unchallenged.
My excellent track record and valuable contrbution to the Club have been destroyed by lies, but the current ruling elite believe the lies to be true, so are not prepared to examine the overwhelmingly solid proof that they are lies.
This website is currently destined to remain here in perpetuity, but would be deleted following wholly appropriate club management action.
Return whence you came