Events

Rushmoor rotary club are organising a curry night on Wednesday 30th September.

Tickets are £15 per person and include (according to the flyer) a meal, activities and a bonfire.

Proceeds are going to local charity Parity For Disability

Sounds like a lot of fun, although I wonder what activities they mean.

I’ll be there as wil some of the members of Farnborough rotary club

Thursday 24th September is the day when a cheque will be handed over to the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice.

This money will be from the proceeds of our Picnic to Music in The Park two day event held in July.

Two years ago, our club handed over a cheque for £77, 000. This year it will be significantly less.

Not that the event was not successful, it was as many turned out to see the tribute bands on the Saturday and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on the Sunday.

But with the economic downturn and of course the terrible weather in July (well throughout the summer really), sales have been affected.

So we will not be handing over such a large cheque this year, but there will be announcement mentioning the amount after the handing over of the cheque next Thursday.

Last night at one of our quarterly evening get-togethers we enjoyed dinner and a light hearted quiz.

I have attended many a quiz in my time and they can be a little bit serious and long winded, but ours wasn’t.

Quiz master John Batty set the questions and I assisted, well I’m not sure that assist is the right word, rather chipped in with the usual mickey taking banter.

A good range of questions were asked by John on all subjects, may particular speciality “Popular Music From The 60′s 70′s and 80′s” was not featured too strongly.

But the truth is that even I could answer some of the questions on my own, whoa!! steady…

Our club has its fair share of professions, too many to mention here, so when we have one of these kind of nights, which is not too often I might add, we form groups and there’s a lot of conferring and discussion…arguments never….

A great fun night and we also had members of Rushmoor Rotary and Blackwater Valley club too.

Actually we gate-crashed Blacwater’s event, I hope they didn’t mind.

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