Probus Christmas Lunch Tuesday 17th December 2024

A new venue this year with a move to the Hartley Wintney Golf Club who served up an excellent quality meal and ensured each guest had the food of their choice.

Hosted by our President Stephen Thair and his lady, Margaret, thirty-five sat down for lunch at 1.00pm sharp and were still chatting at the table until well after 3.30pm This was not because the food was slow in serving but indicates that an enjoyable time was had by all.

Grateful thanks go to John Swain and Jeff Grover for their organising skills in making all the arrangements for the day.

And special thanks go to Alan and Liliane May for their construction of a brain teaser puzzle based on nostalgic confectionary, London underground stations and television programmes with lead characters. It was clear from the groans emitting from tables that the results were obvious when Alan distributed the answer sheet. It was diplomatic not to check the results publicly.

Mr Snappy Snaps was Chris Perkins, and the results of his David Bailey style efforts are published here but with everything going on, Alan and Liliane May somehow escaped his shutter.

It was good to see that our latest member, Mike and Liz Narracott, attended and greetings came from absent member David Wickens currently at his son’s home in Las Vegas and our secretary Andrew and Janice Barton who are in Perth, Western Australia.

President Stephen and Margaret Thair

Probus Publicity in December 2024

As has become the norm, the Kempshott Kourier was late, arriving halfway through November and therefore contains the report about the Titanic and times that was the subject of the talk by Dr Stephen Goss.
The other five local December magazines gave us good coverage about the visit to Southwick House that was the HQ for the D-Day landings 80 years ago. The Villager page had to be reduced to 80% to fit on the front cover for scanning purposes.