Membership Events

Friday March 27   Lecture 5.30   Drinks 6.45  Dinner 7.15 This lecture, by Timothy Walker, who was the Hortus Praefectus of Oxford Botanical Gardens and Harcourt Arboretum, gives an account of 7 weeks travelling in China looking at botanical gardens.  He discusses not only what he saw but what he discovered about Chinese gardeners.  He comes […]

Tuesday February 24  6 for 6.30  £20  Guests £25 Will February never end?  This is traditional comfort food - the pie and mash we all remember from our childhoods, only better! Carl's Famous Traditional Minced Beef Pie and Mash with traditional liquor or gravy *** Fruit Crumble with Custard 

Wednesday March 4th  Cabaret 6pm-7.30pm  Drinks 7.30pm   Dinner 8pm  Black Tie Members £60  Guests £65 Sam Young, the exceptional young baritone from Longborough Opera, is giving us an evening of opera, operetta and Gilbert and Sullivan.  You all know how good he is, and fortunately (or unfortunately for us) others are discovering, so I'm getting […]

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 May 19  6 for 6.30  Members £20  Guests £25 One of our £20 club suppers, but Carl is doing us proud: Rosemary Focaccia with Balsamic Dipping Oil Antipasti grazing platter *** Beef Shin Lasagne with Rocket and Lamb's Leaf Salad *** Tiramisu

Tuesday March 24   Lunch 12 for 12.30 (NOTE THE TIME)  Jazz 2-3.30  Lunch £20  Jazz £15  Both  £35 An experiment: A £20 Lunch in Naples 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 […]

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 8   Drinks 6.30  Dinner 7pm  Members £25  Guests £30 Copenhagen has changed a lot since Danny Kaye wrote that song.  It's no longer just the "friendly old girl of a town" - now it is charming and sophisticated, with its old harbour and winding streets still just the same, but full now of […]

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. And of […]