Dinner on Monday with Lord Best, Chairman of the Communications Committee

[Pádraig Belton]

Dinner with Lord Best, Chairman of the Communications Committee

Dear friends,

I'm very much looking forward to seeing many of you on Monday, for our dinner in the Lansdowne Club with Lord Best. 

Lord Best is the second chairman of the Communications Committee to come speak to the Young Stationers, and his committee is where hearings are now taking place on BBC Charter Renewal.

Because of the date, this will also be the first Carlotta Valdrighi Belton Memorial Lecture, to be given on a topic of contemporary public importance on or as near possible to 12th October, with the speaker paid one florin in gratitude.  'Honoured to make my speech the first Carlotta Valdrighi Belton Memorial Lecture', wrote our speaker, very kindly. 

This will be in the ballroom of the Lansdowne Club, at 7 for half 7, and black tie.  We should give final dining numbers to the Club on Wednesday, so please do let us know by then if you might like to join us.  (Dining pennies are £65, to sort code 30-96-35 and account 02779270 - or please email if you'd rather send a cheque).  

We're very lucky, too, to have the new editor of City AM, 27-year old Christian May, coming to speak to us on 7th December.  This will be our Christmas dinner, and we will be in the Oxford and Cambridge Club.  

We also have had a note from Court Assistant Martin Woodhead, asking if any of us who might ski might be interested in competing for the Stationers' Company at the inter-livery skiing championships in Morzine on 21st and 22d January.  ('This will be the sixth year that the Stationers’ Company has entered the competition, which is always a bundle of fun,' he writes. 'The standards range from near expert to near hopeless (i.e. me). The only prize we have ever won was a teddy bear called Lucky, for the fastest team of 3 skiers whose total ages exceeded 200, and so please encourage Young Stationers to come along and enable us to win some classier trophies in January.'  He then adds, 'Lucky is now in the trophy cabinet of the Vintners. We need to muster all our forces to win it back and some of the other trophies they hold too such as the fastest young skier under 35.') There is a website at www.liveryskiing.com, and he is very happy to answer any questions at martin.w...@btinternet.com.  

Monday will, incidentally, be the last Young Stationers dinner before my wife and I go to Ireland for the birth of our daughter.  We will have our principal base in Ireland for the first year of her life, first in Dublin and then in the Irish-speaking coast of Donegal, and we do hope many of you will come and visit while we are there.

  

with all very best wishes,

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