\title{Production Problems}
\author{Robin Fairbairns}
\begin{Article}

I had to apologise for the late production of \BV{} 5.6, which arose
from my continuing distraction from the (several) jobs I had in hand;
even when it had been printed, there was a delay before I was able to
organise its posting.  Because of that delay, we had to send you a
separate mailing of the notice of Portable Documents (reprise) meeting.

\BV{} 6.1, produced by David Carlisle, arrived on time, and I was able
to get discs to the printer in reasonable time.  However, the next day
I had to leave Cambridge, and spent only one day here for the next
week and a half.  Fortunately, I was able to alert the committee to
the need to send out a special mailing for the \TeX{} and the Internet
meeting.
Since they had been printed, I decided to include `my' fliers for the
meeting with the mailing which is now, finally (4 March) in the post.
(I'm \emph{sure} the green paper the fliers were printed on didn't look
quite so violent when I chose it; I shan't select that colour again!)

One hopes such alarums and diversions won't happen again; I apologise
to the membership for any inconvenience.
\end{Article}
