Bro Lockett has also created “Lodge Secretary” software, freely available at www.LodgeSecretary.uk, which fully administers a lodge and is multi-lodge and multi-order — including handling festive board seating, that perennial test of Masonic diplomacy.

The software has been trialled in lodges in the USA and the UK and is used in this Lodge. It was about to be considered by the Met IT team for inclusion on Rosetta (a process interrupted by the resignation of Matthew Christmas). Use is free forever, but secretaries using it are encouraged to donate £10 per year to the Lodge’s Charity Fund. Rumours that the software was created during the closing speeches of his opposing counsel are entirely denied.