Welcome to the latest post on the Club’s website.
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,…
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…
By Andrew P. Morris & Roger Hale Any Port … (Part 1) By Andrew Occasionally life produces moments of rare good fortune. Not so much some sort of humungous lottery win, but a far more modest affair. Something, well, nice. Something unexpected. Whilst moving house, recently, a bottle of dusty port, that had been…
By Christopher Firmstone A Brillat-Savarin Dinner, held at The Staff House of the University of Birmingham in October 1972, was the first dinner I attended as a member of the Buckland Club. The welcome was warm and the conversation flowed, as did the aperitif we were offered on arrival, which was served in capacious glass tumblers..…
Two months that changed the UK and me By Hazel Riggall Two months ago, it was an ordinary Friday morning and I was working as a volunteer for my local foodbank, just a ten-minute walk away from my home. The fact that it was Friday 13th, barely even registered as we started to take social…
By Hazel Riggall I returned home as a first timer symposiast, satiated and stimulated after a packed couple of days. Harlan Walker and Roger Hale have both been regulars at this wonderful event for many years and had enthused about the wonderful weekends spent in halls at ‘St Catz’ steeped in all that is food…