The Pantomime this year was Frosty the Snowman.  There were around 60 children in the audience, and many more adults.


Can you guess which one is Frosty?

And then, after visiting the the hair salon,  Father Christmas arrived (by flying saucer due to an outbreak of foot and mouth at the North Pole).  When we had sobered him up, he handed out presents to all the boys and girls and to anybody who would give him a bottle of sherry.  The photo below was taken before he was mobbed by all the children. The photos taken after he was mobbed have been withdrawn from the site.


Can you see the flying saucers and the mother ship, waiting to beam Santa back to the North Pole ?

• Goodbye Ingo !  One of our most regular customers left the Club and Marlow behind to return home to Germany. Being a member for around 25 years (or more), Ingo is one of our long standing members.  He hasn't relinquished his membership though, so we all look forward to seeing him again when he returns, albeit briefly, in March.
  The Club Chairman presented Ingo and his wife (apoligies, but I'm not even going to attempt at spelling his wife's name) with a crystal decanter at his leaving party.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Charity Music Quiz (compiled and hosted by Pete Eden, our much valued Treasurer) was very well attended.  Terry and Sheila served 102 basket meals in the interval.  Well done !
  By the end of the evening we had raised a total of £736 for Leukaemia Research.

• The Race Night raised an amazing £655 for the charity Hopes and Dreams.  Which just goes to show how generous the Club members are, considering I counted 26 people in attendance on the night. Despite the poor turn out, a good evening was had by all and yours truly was only £2 down at the end of the racing.
  

• Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh !!
  We now sell cockles over the bar.  They're not alive, and we don't sell mussels.  So now that I've gone to all the trouble of looking up how to spell mussels, you'd better eat 'em.
  Next month:  Jellied eels !
  (No way - Ed)
  
  
  

• Becks (not the scruffy one that's married to the stick) now do a low alcohol beer.  It's in bottles, available now from the cold shelf, and it tastes ok.  Being a red wine drinker it's a bit too gassy for me, so I'll just have another bottle please.  Anyone got a corkscrew ?
  
  
  

  
  
  
• St. George's Day celebrations with Graeme Hewitt and the High Society Jazz Band, who returned to the Club by popular demand.
   
  

• Jack and the Beanstalk was the pantomime last year.  Everbody had a good time, and afterwards there was a surprise visit by Father Christmas, who we managed to coax away
  early from the North Pole with the promise of a bottle of Sherry.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• The Charity Quiz Night was a total success.   There were over 115 entrants, and between
  us all we managed to raise over £800 for Leukemia Research.   A big thank you to Peter
  (Mr. Club Treasurer) for organising the event. Many thanks to Glynn and Sony for the
  donation of the raffle prizes. And thank you to Sheila and Terry for organising the food and getting it out on the tables so efficiently.
  
  
  
  
• The Open Day / Fun Day was another total success.   Everybody enjoyed themselves, and
  the weather was perfect for the BBQ and other outdoor activities, including 'kick the ball
  into the cement mixer', and 'get the golf ball into the bucket'.   Then there was much
  grovelling on the floor to shove a £1 coin nearest to the Vodka bottle, a raffle to win a bottle
  of champagne, the usual Golden Key draw (£750 next Sunday), and of course the casino,
  which attracted a lot of attention.   The outright winner can be seen accumulating his orange   chips at the roulette table below.
  
  
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  The final figures are now in, and the event raised £680 for the Barn Club Football Team.
  I know £380 of this was raised by Lindsey, (who very kindly waived her usual fee for the event)   and the girls at the gaming tables. Visit the website at http://www.dazzlefuncasinos.co.uk/
  
  
• New .co.uk address.   You can now find our site by typing in http://www.barnclub.co.uk/
  as well as the regular .net address that you've grown accustomed too.   Hopefully,
  you have already saved this site to your favourites, and don't have to type anything.
  
  
• Well Done to the Barn Club Pool Team, who won the Marlow & Disctirct Team
  Knock Out, on July 2nd, at the Britannia.   And here they are...
  
  

  Back Row (Left to Right)

  Andy Houiellebecq, Alex Wing, Martyn Harrison, Tony Golding (Capt), John Little

   

  Front Row (Left to Right)

  Paul Raine, Stuart Voller, Chris Judge, Andy Fisher
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

• Googling for Barn Club works once again.   Although we're not high up in the list,
  we are there.   We are doing   very well   on other search engines though,
  such as Lycos, MSN Search, Yahoo and Excite. And, we can be also
  found on Google Earth.   If you haven't seen this, then you don't know what
  you're missing.   You need a broadband connection, and download
  Google Earth from: http://www.earth.google.com/   You really should check it out.
  
  
• The Disabled Parking space   was created for those of us who   carry a blue badge,
  which looks like this:            

  

  

...and not like this:                                

So now you know what a blue badge looks like,   if you do not have one,
then please DO NOT park in the disabled bay.

Thank You.