Events

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 […]

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  Members £35  Guests £40 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 […]

Wednesday April 29th  6.30 for 7  Members £25  Guests £30 A simple club supper of old favourites Prawn Cocktail *** Shepherd's Pie with Slow Cooked shoulder of Lamb *** Lemon & Raspberry Posset with Almond Tuille

Wednesday May 6th  Jazz 6-7.45   Dinner 8pm  Members £50  Guests £60 Dom Franks on sax is bringing a slightly different trio this time, with Elijah Jeffrey singing, a great cool jazz singer.  As usual we will be dotting tables and chairs about in the hall and on the landing, so come in and out with […]

Monday May 11  Coach from the Club 10am returning 5.30pm  £60 One of our splendid days out together arranged by Jane Moyle.  We shall leave the Club in a luxury coach at 10am, arriving at Chevanage House to be shown round by the family who have lived there longer than we have been a club.  […]

Wednesday May 13  6.30 for 7pm  Members £25  Guests £30 Rajasthani cuisine has evolved to serve the requirements of the royal Rajput families and the Mughal princes.  The Mughals came from Central Asia, round Uzbekistan, and while they brought some of the culture around their food with them, they were also determined to impress their […]

Tuesday May 19    6 for 6.30   Members £20  Guests £25 One of our inexpensive but delicious club suppers - much cheaper to bring guests here for dinner, and probably cheaper than preparing all this at home.  Come along and introduce your friends to the club at a bargain price. ROSEMARY FOCCACCIA WITH BALSAMIC DIPPING […]