Today, as the Friday 13th London Lunch didn’t happen, Peter Ball, Alastair Roberts and Christopher Goodwins met for lunch in Wicken Village (http://www.maidsheadwicken.com/) . The weather was pleasant and the beer and white bait very acceptable………… Cost £4.95…..
We met to chat and we eventually got onto the current social side to our Association away from college. We agreed the college does a good job in college but throughout the year we could meet in little local groups without putting the responsibility of organising the meeting on the college; like some have been doing for a number of years under the flag of “The London Lunch” …
We came up with this…
LOCAL LUNCHES
Peter Ball, Alastair Roberts and Christopher Goodwins met for lunch in Wicken Village, Cambridgeshire and discussed the following:
Proposal:
- To provide a facility for former members of the College Choir, spouses, partners etc., to meet informally from time to time at a location suitable to them.
- To further an idea that this could be established via informal LOCAL LUNCHES. Suggested idea of a pie and a pint (rather than formal dinners at £70 a head!). Local Lunches initially to be piloted at selected pubs in locations within a radius of say 30 -35 miles from Cambridge to gauge take-up. If this is successful to then spread this throughout the country and, maybe eventually, even further a-field.
- Lunches would be very informal, inexpensive and a simple and pleasant way to get together and spend a couple of hours with past friends and colleagues and, indeed, to make new friends with an interest in the College Choir.
- Invitations would be kept within local areas, by email, or phone, with a website box somewhere to type in your postcode, to show where your nearest contact could be found.
- Acceptances could be cancelled at a moment’s notice (as no restaurant meals would need to be booked in advance). However, if numbers were substantial the pub would need some advanced notification.
- Once the idea had become established, we would hope that the College authorities would endorse and promote the Local Lunches scheme, and accept it as an official (expanding membership) part of the SJC Choir Association.
We are anxious to have your view on whether or not you think this is an idea worth pursuing and, if you think it is, if you would consider coming along.
Val and Peter Ball are ....... 