dinner with Doug Wills, managing editor of the Evening Standard and Independent, 20th November

[Pádraig Belton]

Dear Young Stationers and friends,

 Hullo, and I hope all of you are very well indeed!

 We have a few spaces left for our dinner on the 20th November with Doug Wills, managing editor of the Evening Standard, Independent, and Sunday Independent.  Perhaps you might like to come?  Dinner is three courses, with sherry, wine, and port, and tots up to £68; dress is black tie.  (We have a Facebook page here with more details.)

 As for our other upcoming events, to which all of you are very welcome:

• On 4th December, the Royal Opera has given us twenty heavily-discounted ampitheatre tickets to go as a group to see L'elisir d'amore.  (Facebook page here.) 

• Though not a Young Stationers event, all of you are very welcome to a Boodle's on the 19th December, when there will be a Christmas charity dinner for the Alzheimer's Society, the charity for which I'm training to swim the Channel.  (Facebook page here.)

• Our Burns Night dinner in the Caledonian Club on 19th January will feature Michael Binyon OBE, foreign correspondent from The Times, as well as Liveryman Haggis.

• Our annual dinner in Oxford, which this year will be held jointly with our friends in the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, will be 5th February in the Old Senior Common Room of Balliol College.  Alison Strachan, director of bookbinding at Shepherd's Bookbinders, will talk about the art of traditional bookbinding in the 21st century, and possibly give us a chance to try our hands at it.  (Facebook page here.)

• On 23d February we will have dinner with Lord Balfe in the House of Lords, who will speak to us about the UK, the EU, the coming general election, and the press.  (Lord Balfe was a longstanding MEP for London before entering the Lords.  Facebook page here.)

• In March, the weekend before St Patrick's Day, we will have a group outing to Dublin, to visit the Irish Times (do pick up a copy of today's, as I have a piece in it!), the Arts Club, the Old Library of Trinity College Dublin, Archbishop Marsh's Library, and hear over dinner from a few Irish journalists and writers.

• And not a Young Stationers event, but all of you are very welcome to the Garrick Club on 17th March for a St Patrick's Day charity dinner, also part of my Channel appeal.

 Also, it being poppy season, the final total from our Ypres cycle was £1,352.91 for the Royal British Legion and Wiltshire Barn Project.  I'm off now to panhandle 9p.

with all very best wishes, and please do come and join us on the 20th November if you at all can,

Paddy

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Running the length of Ireland for Macmillan Cancer Support, 1st-12th October, 2013