Chers
Amis
Our
February Welcome Party was a big success again thanks in no small part to Mike
and Lilias opening their house once again to us and doing the bulk of the
preparation and organisation. A big thanks to Mike and Lilias, I would also
like to thank all of those who dusted off their best French recipes and brought
along such great dishes for us to share. The challenging part of the event came
when Kerry issued our new membership cards and then asked us to form a line in
numerical order according to membership number. The purpose of this exercise
was to reveal those who had been members the longest and who were our newer
members. However, the chaos it caused revealed that most of our members are
either numerically challenged or had been a little too assiduous in tasting the
generous variety of wines on offer. In case you were wondering, our longest
standing member at the party was Liz James. Congratulations Liz!
Our
next big event is the Cabaret night at Oaklands on Saturday, March 30, more of
this later in this edition. The star performer of the night, Eliane Morel,
produced a highly acclaimed performance at our last Bastille Day dinner so make
sure you book a place and pass your menu preferences to Mike Warren so you don’t
miss out. Cordialement
Rob McCombie
