Christmas Meeting 2024

We had our Christmas Meeting at the Bentley Golf Club once again, where we enjoyed a fantastic three course Christmas meal. Seventy eight guests were in attendance and we were entertained by our speaker Charlie Haycock who spoke to us about the English language. He informed us about the origin of words and the countries from which they arrived into England, together with how the various dialects and accents derived around the UK,  and how they developed. He was able to give us examples using his natural talent by talking in accents from all round the country, with his speech not only being very interesting, but humorous as well. The picture above shows our President Stefan Tkaczyk together with his lovely lady Gill. In addition, the evening would not have been the same without our traditional rendering of "The Five Days of  Christmas", in memory of John Roberts, the one member who made this song his own. He will always be remembered for completely ruining the chorus which we insisted he always sang on his own!