Chairman's Chatter

 

We are fast approaching the AGM and all I can think of is "where has the whole year gone?!"

 

Well, thinking through the year, the calendar has been the usual busy one, with several joint meetings and events throughout the year. Firstly the list of vaguely sporting activities were:

 

1. The Golf at Widney Manor Golf Club - joint with Table

2. The Cec Crossley Trophy where we beat Table (by ONE RUN!) at cricket

3. The Four Clubs meeting in August at Rex's bowls Club - 41 Club, Tangent, Table and Circle all enjoying a good (if slightly chilly) evening of bowls, banter, and beer .... plus food!

4. The 41 Club/Tangent joint meeting in February where we learned the intricacies of dominoes

 

Of course, on the joint theme we also had several parties that were joint events too:

 

1. The joint barbequeue with Tangent at Tandy Towers

2. Our own Ladies Night which obviously included many from Tangent!

3. The Christmas Party with Tangent

4. Table/Circle joint President's night, where many of us were in attendance

5. Table Ladies Night - as usual supported by many of our own and Tangent's members

 

Then of course our calendar of meetings included several (I make it 4) Speaker meetings for which Rex did a splendid job of getting a 'magic' array of speakers for us!

 

Our outside visits included the 'Retro Metro Night', one highlight of which had to be seeing Dick left sitting on the tram as it pulled out after the rest of us had got off for a beer stop! Also of course we did the excellent 'Crystal Maze Top Gear Rally', splendidly organised by Colin!

 

Further to all these we have (well, some have) been on a few walks, done quite a bit of carolling (we had two 'official' routes this year) and held our usual Christmas social at the Earlswood Yacht Club!

 

Of course, I must say a big thank you to all those of you who turned out in the pouring rain (all day!) to help out and support us in running Solihull Carnival 2009! Surely the weather can only be an improvement this year over last so please could you add Saturday 12th June 2010 to your calendar to help on one (or more!) of the shifts and/or the barbeque.

 

And what about the Webmaster's prize, you may well ask! Well, there will be a prize, and this time it will be done in the form of a draw. Everyone who EMAILS me with the ENTIRE TEXT CAPTION from picture 31 of the Wales weekend will be entered in the draw. Time limit is 7:00pm (approx!) on Thursday 1st April 2010. HINT: It is the TEXT caption from the large version of the picture, not just the thumbnail!

 

Also, I will be doing a caption competition for picture 30 of the Wales weekend at the AGM. Sheets will be passed round, but this gives you advance notice to (hopefully!) come up with a good one!

 

So now all I have to do is survive the AGM and I will have made it through the year!! Where has it all gone in such a hurry?