Game Dinner

Date: Thursday 9th November 2023 Venue: Edgbaston Golf Club Sponsor: Adrian Riddle assisted by his wife, Jenny   Game Dinner Menu       Menu design by Roger Hale       The Club’s own Buck Land Ale was brewed by member Nigel Beecroft, who is Head Brewer at Ostler’s Brewery in the White Horse, Harborne.…

Ginger & Saffron Dinner

Date: Tuesday 7th March 2023 Venue: Edgbaston Golf Club Sponsor: Sam Bilton   Members & guests gathered at EGC, and the evening began with many sampling Sam Bilton’s own creation a Runaway Ginger Cocktail, which consisted of a measure of ginger vodka plus dark rum topped up with sparkling cider. It was universally well received.  …

Roman Feast

Roman Feast 70th Anniversary Dinner Date: 19th October 2022 Venue: Edgbaston Golf Club Sponsor: Sally Grainger     Menu design by Roger Hale   Roman Feast – Minutes Writing dinner minutes that are informative, intelligent and hilarious sucks up enormous amounts of my time, indeed some of these speeches can take 15-20 minutes to write.…

North & South German Dinner

Date: 23rd February 2022 Venue: Edgbaston Golf Club Sponsor: Catherine Borghoff     Dinner Minutes   With only one day to go before President Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson declared Covid over and less than two hours before World War 3 started, the intrepid and fearless Bucklanders gathered yet again at Edgbaston Golf Club. Thankfully…

Supper with D H Lawrence

Sponsor Michael Bell Edgbaston Golf Club Thursday 28th October 2021 Our sponsor for the evening was Michael Bell, Professor Emeritus in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Michael has a special interest in Lawrence and was well placed to sponsor a very special ‘live’ evening, albeit in our new post- Covid…

Fish Sauce at the Roman Table

Date: Saturday 12th March 2021 Venue: via Zoom Sponsor: Sally Grainger assisted by Dr Christopher Grocock Bucklanders gathered, via the use of 21st century technology, to study one of the lesser appreciated wonders of the ancient world of the Roman empire. On this occasion the hard grafting was done by respected food historian, author and…

Palestinian Cook-along from Gaza

Date: Sunday 17th January 2021 Venue: via Zoom Sponsor: Reem Abuwaarda   Upwards of thirty-five members, plus assorted family & friends, gathered online for the Club’s second zoom cook-along. Our sponsor & mentor was Reem Abuwaarda who was taking an enforced break, due to Covid-19 restrictions, from running the highly respected Cafe Reem in Harborne.  …

Cryptic Christmas Crossword

  Our little grey cells have been given a festive workout, and the results are in… two members successfully completed our Hon. Secretary’s fiendish competition with the winners being decided by the toss of a coin. Congratulations are due to Chris Draysey, who has been awarded first prize of a magnum of Chateau Noaillac, Cru Bourgeois,…

Cookery Masterclass with Lajina Masala

Saturday 10th October 2020 Venue: On Line Sponsor: Lajina Masala Cookery Masterclass via Zoom With the country still in the grips of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic an autumn dinner was always unlikely. Bucklanders are a hardy bunch, but rarely foolhardy, so an alternative arrangement was required. This materialised in the persona of Lajina Masala a…

Corona Diary Update

By Hazel Riggall 25 weeks in and counting …. Six months on from those chilling headlines, ‘Covid-19 confirmed as a pandemic’ and news of our first isolated cases in the UK, where are we now with the ‘new normal’? The pace of life has for the most part slowed down for me, after the frantic…