Month: August 2023

Three of our members visited the Light Aircraft Fly-In at Popham airfield on Saturday 19 August – Chris Perkins MVO, Stephen Thair and Dave Kitson. While the first two had flying experiences, with Chris having spent many years in the RAF, and Stephen having held a private pilot’s licence, it has to be assumed that Dave’s claim to having interests in aviation lies in the fact that he had flown in Concorde.

All three declared the outing to be very enjoyable, as well as can be seen from the following two photographs where they are also enjoying an ice cream.

August is a quiet month as some magazines take a break, but we managed to gain some space in the Kempshott Kourier, Villager, CommunityAd for Overton, Oakley & Kempshott and in the Basinga Extra web site.

Keen eyed readers will see that the CommunityAd magazine devoted a page to the Ladies Probus and their thirtieth birthday celebrations while the majority of the page was about our 43^rd AGM.

Tuesday 8th August 2023

It was back in 2016 when the then President Fred Locke selected the Swan at Sherborne St John for the Probus summer pub lunch and going back this time was the choice of our current President Dr Jeff Grover. Perhaps the fact that they both live down the road in Bramley may have influenced their choice, but it turned out very satisfactorily in the event.

In the intervening years the quality of the food offering has improved with the selection this time probably suiting the 34 attendees with some having one course, some two courses and a few having three courses and coffee. And a drink from the bar. And good conversations were had all round.

Even though it had been necessary to tell Jeff in advance of our menu selections, always provided that one’s memory was able to recall what had been ordered the wiser members had a note with them when confirming and paying for their lunch at the bar.