St Patrick’s Day Dinner: Tuesday March 17th 6 for 6.30  £25  Guests £30 We can’t let this pass without a special dinner in honour of all that blarney.  We’re moving it to a Tuesday so we hold it on the very night that all over Ireland people will be passing out, and moving it to […]

Tuesday March 24   Lunch 12 for 12.30 (NOTE THE TIME)  Jazz 2-3.30  Lunch £20  Jazz £15  Both  £35 An experiment: a Club lunch followed by the Cygnet Jazz Duo playing in the hall from 2pm -3.30pm.  You will be able to book lunch and the Jazz, or just lunch, or just Jazz.  The Cygnet Jazz […]

Friday March 27th   Lecture 5.30pm   Drinks 6.45pm Dinner 7.15pm   Members £35   Guests £40 Timothy Walker, who was the Hortus Praefectus of Oxford Botanic Gardens and Harcourt Arboretum, visited more than 36 botanical gardens across 5000 miles of China on a 7 week trip on behalf of Oxford Botanic Gardens, during which he saw botanic gardens […]

Wednesday April 1  Drinks 6.30  Dinner 7pm  Members £25  Guests £30 The clocks have gone forward, Spring has sprung and Easter is nearly upon us.  We are celebrating all these things with a hop, skip and a jump (except for Jane, who has been forbidden from hopping, skipping or jumping given her propensity to damaging […]

Wednesday April 15    Drinks from 5.30   Opera  6-7.30pm  Dinner 7.45   Black tie   £75  Guests £80 Four of the Longborough Opera Singers will be entertaining us.  All of you who like opera know them.  This time we will have a soprano, a mezzo soprano, a tenor and a baritone.  It will be superb.    

Tuesday April 21    Choir  6-6.45pm  Drinks 6.45  Dinner 7.15  Choir: £25  Non Choir  £35   Guests £40 Cecil Rhodes famously said: 'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life".  Tonight, a slightly early St George's evening, we shall be celebrating Englishness in music and cuisine.  The […]

Friday April 24  Lecture 5.30  Drinks 6.45  Dinner 7.15 Curiously, "Pug" Ismay, one of the most celebrated names in the forties, fifties and sixties, has been almost forgotten.  But he was Churchill's Chief of Staff throughout the War, and ultimately one of his honorary pallbearers.  He was instrumental in events from the Indian and Pakistan […]