For August our breakfast meeting was held at the Kingswell Hotel & Restaurant, Harwell. This was a new venue and 30 members sat down to an excellent full English breakfast in a delightful old English ambience, abundant with old beams and delightful decor.
We welcomed four people joining us for the first time -
- Peter Billyard of Charles Lucas & Marshall Solicitors
- Christina Nawrocki of Wellers Accoutants
- Gillie Barlow of Sophia Investments and
- Dianne Beechey of Appletree, who is the lady who organises our monthly Newsletter.
We hope they all enjoyed their first visit.
Our speaker was David Elliot who gave us a presentation entitled ‘The Red Carpet’. Further details are recorded below. An interesting statistic David told us was that after the publishers and others had taken their cost, the author only receives 21p per book. Thank you David for your very interesting and enjoyable presentation.
For our next meeting, our 125th, we are back at The Lamb Inn, Mill Street, Wantage where the breakfast club all began more than 10 years ago. This time our meeting will take the form of a discussion entitled ‘The Way Forward’.
As you all know Colin wishes to stand down with the administration of the club, and take a well-earned back seat! Jeanette Howse has kindly prepared a short paper outlining her thoughts on the future, a copy of which will be handed out at next week’s breakfast for discussion. Your ideas and thoughts will be most welcome and hopefully members will be interested in joining a new team.
We shall be delighted to see as many of you as possible at this important meeting – after all, the club is for your benefit, and hopefully many of you will have acquired new business from the many members you have met.
Please book your attendance promptly for Wednesday, 21st September commencing at the usual time of 8.00 a.m.
