Christmas dinner at Boodle's, 19th December

[Pádraig Belton]

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Dear Young Stationers and friends,

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

  Though not technically a Young Stationers event, all of you are extremely warmly welcome to a Christmas dinner at Boodle's on the 19th December.  The Club has very kindly waived our room hire, which instead will go to my appeal for the Alzheimer's Society, for which I'm now training to swim the Channel.

 To sign up for our dinner, please do send £85 to sort code 30-96-35 and account 02779270, and a note to Graham Jones (jon...@hotmail.com), to book in, if you'll be able to join us.  If easier, do instead please wend a cheque to me, by post, at Flat 4, 21-23, Anerley Park, London SE20 8NF.

 Dinner is 7 for half 7 pm, evening dress (white or black tie), and the Club is at 28 St James's Street, SW1A 1HJ.

  

  I'm tremendously grateful to Young Stationer Miss Michaela Frankova, for donating a Michaela Frankova Couture dress which will be auctioned for the charity appeal; and also to Young Stationer Miss Sarah Watkinson-Yull, for donating a pair of Yull Shoes. These would make an excellent outfit for a woman, or a cross-dressing starter kit for a man. Young Stationer Miss Agnieszka Kolek is also extremely kindly offering several pieces of art.

  The menu is below.  You'll be all truffled out. 

Pre-prandial sherry

Wild mushroom with truffle oil soup

2012 Domaine Talmard Mâcon Uchizy

Red Leg Partridge à la Normande, with potato cake (as I needed potatoes) and spinach and apple with calvados cream sauce

Château Cambon La Pelouse 2005 Haut-Médoc

Vacherin Mont d’Or and truffle soufflé

Coffee and the Belton Bon Bon Bowl

Club vintage port

  Everyone is most welcome.  Formally, it is a guest dinner of No 4 Chapter, where I am in my year in the First Principal's chair.  I really would be most grateful if you could come join us for what ought be a lovely evening.

 I'm also very grateful to everyone who came along to our evening of mince pie at Quaritch antiquarian booksellers, and to our group outing to L'elisir d'amore at the Royal Opera House, which proved very popular, and we will now aim to repeat in the spring. 

 (There are pictures of both here, on our new website, though not all our old content has yet migrated that way: https://stationers.org/about/young-stationers.html.)

with all very best wishes,
Paddy

p.s. Just for your new 2015 diaries, I'd be very grateful too if you might scribble in these jollities of ours:

• Our Burns Night dinner in the Caledonian Club on 19th January, featuring 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. Liveryman Alison Strachan, a very active Young Stationer and 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.)

• On 13th to 15th March, the weekend before St Patrick's Day, we will have a group outing to Dublin, to visit the Irish Times, the United Arts Club (where we will have a dinner), the Old Library of Trinity College Dublin, Archbishop Marsh's Library, the Gate for a Pinter play, St Patrick's Cathedral for evensong, possibly one pub (just the one), 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 dinner, which also will be in support of the Alzheimer's Society and my Channel appeal.