Portable Knees-up

As Twittered by "portableant" (Daniel Pett) 16th December 2011 on the occasion of the PAS Annual general meeting and Christmas Party:

staff AGM today, lots of great people coming together for a moan :) [...] Discussion at PAS agm is on public engagement via broadcast and digital. Exciting best practice archaeological dissemination next year.

Oooo, public engagement instead of pandering to their "partner metal detectorists you mean? Now there's a novel idea! And Best Practice too, what an original idea. FYI those are precisely the two foundations on which the PAS was set up, and which have been conspicuously absent from its recent dealings with metal detectorists.