 St
George's Day Dinner 2007
The guest speaker was Gladstone Small,
former England and Warwickshire cricketer. We had about 70 people
attending andon top of that we raised £1227 for local charities. |
I
am sure it's around here somewhere
These are from the Port Appreciation evening in Woolhampton. |
 Collecting
for Children in Need
The BBC Children in Need appeal happens in November, and we dress
up and collect money for it. The photo here is taken on our preferred
pitch for the last few years, the bridge over the canal on Bartholemew
Street.
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 91
Club meeting in Sweden in 2005
Dressed up as knights, we
went to the welcome party. The different shields on the front of
the "tabbards" show
the nationality of the wearers - at least until people swapping
them. |
 Banner
lunch the next day at Varnamo
Each Round Table group has to present an act to the other tables.
Some tables plan it months in advance and carefully rehearse it until
they are word-perfect, and others just think it up on the flight
out. |
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 A
speaker meeting with an invited speaker
Many of the formal meetings have an invited speaker along to talk
about a subject likely to be of interest to the members. |
 5-a-side
Human Table Football
Here we fields two teams competing against other tables
in the Thames Valley. A mini-league is drawn up on the night,
and games last five minutes, which is long enough-especially
after the
burgers. The players hang onto loops attached to sleeves which
slide over the aluminium poles so that they can move sideways
but not up
and down the pitch. The ball is made out of foam rubber so
it does not hurt if it hits you.
Newbury didn't win this time, but that was only because we
waz robbed.
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 The
Saturday night ball at the 2004 91 Club meeting in Grenaa, Denmark.
Apparently taken
just before the fish course. |
Rowing down the Thames
Henley
Round Table organise the Rowlock Rally boat race down the Thames
from near Oxford down to Henley every year, in which tables from
the Reading area compete. Although the course is around 25 miles
long, people take it in turns to row different segments so no-one
has to row the entire distance. This leaves them time to eat and
drink on the accompanying cruise boat. This is from the 2004 event. |
 A
boat race
Several different boat races took place - this one was between
a combined UK team and members of a Swedish table who were visiting
one of the tables
taking part. |
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 2004
AGM Part 2
The second half of the AGM is a fortnight after the first,
and is a "black-tie" dinner with extra entertainment.
Halfway through it the new office-holders formally take over from
their predecessors. There are often 50 or more people
at these dinners - as they are popular with people from other Round
Tables in the area, and from 41 Club. |
 Crafty
Craft
This is out main fund-raising event, and takes plave in early May.
A vast
army of people are needed to provide marshalls for the locks and Victoria
Park, which means that all tablers, ex-tablers, friends and relatives
are roped in. Best job is lazing in the sun on one of the quieter locks.
Worst job is cleaning up all of the litter in the park at the end of
the day. |
 It
takes a lot of planning though. There is a core Crafty Craft organisation
committee of about half a dozen volunteers who start work towards the
event in the previous October. This is some of the 2001 commitee looking
at the canal to examine alternative arrangements because of the Foot
and Mouth outbreak. There was a risk that competitors and people watching
the race might spread the disease as they moved along the canal tow
path. To prevent this, the race was took the form of a circuit between
the A339 bridge and the Parkway bridge. |
 Our
bell, taken at the 204 AGM part 2
The bell was a gift from Basingstoke Round Table
when Newbury Table was formed. Suprisingly for something so large,
it is often stolen
by members from other tables who come as guests to a meeting. This
demands a return visit to one of their meetings to collect it and
ideally purloin something of theirs. |
 This
is the slot car racing at the 2003 Vice Chairman's Night Out, held
at Pinewood
Raceway in Wokingham. Vice Chairman's Night Out is organised annually
by that year's vice chairman and the details kept secret by him from
the other members until they arrive at the venue in the minibus. The
six people behind the green wall are competing in a heat.You can just
see a red car passing in front, controlled by the member in the black
and yellow sweat shirt at the end. The trick is to go fast on the straight
bits but not spin off the track on the bends.
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 This
is the meal in a nearby pub which followed the event. |
 Brunch
on Sunday morning in Newbury Town Hall during the 2003 91 Club meeting.
Most of the people are hung over from the ball at the race course the
previous evening/early morning. |
 2002
Vice Chairman's Night Out was go-karting in Reading. The stearing wheel
is quite stiff and you mostly turn to the right as you go around the
figure-of-eight track, so you have an aching right arm at the end of
the evening. |
 Annual
cricket match in June with 41 Club at
Burghclere Cricket Club. Newbury Round Table has narrowly won for the
last two years, breaking a long run of victories by 41 Club. The match
is always followed by an enormous Chinese meal in the club house. |
