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He said he hoped to arrange some additional events during the year, such as lunch at the
Leather Bottle (as per last year), plus a London Walk of the Dickensian pubs –sounds good.
He then asked Club Members to be upstanding for the toast to our guests, followed by an
inimitable rendering of Auld Lang Syne.
There followed some photographic high jinx in the foyer bar with Frank Simmery trying
the Drasine, and Mr Dumkins encouraging members to ‘try their hand’ at mounting the
Ordinary/Penny Farthing. Getting slightly out of hand, the lady member of the Household
Calvary was duly coerced into participation, which she achieved with aplomb, in spite of her
spurs! The two lady members of the Connaught Rooms staff did likewise, including the one
with the very tight skirt. Thereafter members and guests attempts failed to catch the
imagination! And so another spring lunch drifted into the history books, and participants in
the wide blue yonder (Hercules Pillars?)……until the December Garden Party.
