Usual rules apply. We need a deposit of £10 per person to secure your place. Places are limited, obviously, so it’s first come first served.

You can email your interest and menu choices to ku.oc.notnimdab-emlohsirrotnull@yraterces or to ku.oc.notnimdab-emlohsirrotnull@kcorBaccebeR – all monies to Rebecca or James or via team captains (if your captain is one of the ones we can trust).

Menu – Also, click here. Ignore the price on their website, it’s £20…

STARTERS

• CLASSIC FRENCH ONION SOUP
  Home-made using a beef and brandy stock, topped with a gruyere cheese croute.
• HAM HOCK TERRINE
  Pressed with buttered leeks & fresh parsley
  served with pea & mint mayonnaise
• HOME-CURED SALMON GRAVLAX
  With a honey, dill and wholegrain mustard dressing
• SCALLOPS ST. JACQUES
  Seared queen scallops in a white wine & garlic sauce, with shallots, fresh basil, pomme purée &
  finished with freshly grated parmesan
• HORSE CHESNUT, PARMESAN & GOATS CHEESE TWICE BAKED SOUFFLE
  Drizzled with caramelised lemon dressing

MAIN COURSES

• TRADITIONAL ROAST CHRISTMAS TURKEY WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS
  Including Yorkshire pudding, sausage meat & apricot stuffing, pigs in blankets, roasted potatoes, parsnip & carrot mash.
• PAN FRIED FILLET OF SILVER BREAM
  With roasted curried parsnips &
  dauphinoise potatoes
• CONFIT DUCK LEG
  Crispy duck leg with buttered fondant
  potato, sticky red cabbage & mulled
  wine sauce
• INDIVIDUAL HOME-MADE FISH PIE
  Topped with cheesy mashed potato & served with buttered greens
• BEEF BOUGIGNON
  Traditional slow braised beef in a rich red wine sauce, with home-cut chips & fresh bread
• CHICKEN GALANTINE
  Rolled with apricots, sage & garlic, served with dauphinoise potatoes and butternut squash puree
• WINTER VEGETABLE COBBLER
  Mixed root vegetables in a creamy white wine sauce with a crumble topping, with fresh bread

HOME MADE DESSERTS

• TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS PUD
• TIRAMASU
• SHERRY TRIFLE
• WHITE CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE
• BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING

TO FINISH

• FRESHLY GROUND COFFEE & MINTS

The booking is for 20 and the cost for the 2 courses is 17.50. There is a large selection of homemade desserts available and they will be charged as taken. Cost doesn’t include any drinks!

If you want to come, please let James know asap, as places are limited. Partners are welcome. You’ll need to leave a deposit of £5 per head to secure your places.

Christmas Evening Menu

Starters

• Winter Vegetable Broth
• Confit Duck Leg
  on shredded savoy cabbage with a pink peppercorn sauce
• Ham Hock, Leek & Cranberry Terrine
  served with a dressed rocket salad & spicy tomato compote
• Roast Beetroot, Blue Cheese & Pecan Salad with an orange and honey dressing
• Home Cured Salmon cured with lemon and dill and served
  with horseradish crème fraiche

Mains

• Pan Fried Sea Bass
  broccoli mousse, red pepper dressing and basil oil
• Roast Local Turkey
  with all the trimmings
• Roast Rump Of Lamb
  With sautéed mushrooms, spinach and shallot gravy
• Venison Rossini
  Venison steak served pink on a garlic crouton and with chicken liver pate
  with a rich red wine sauce
• Stuffed Chicken Breast stuffed with
  Sausage & chestnuts and served on a sweet potato rosti
• Sweet Potato, Leek & Ginger Crumble
• Mushroom & Chestnut Pithivier Puff pastry filled with mushrooms, chestnuts and ricotta with asparagus sauce

Entry will cost £10 and, apparently, there’ll be prizes. Although probably not for me.

For more information see Dave S.

Another mid-week one, too, early December. I hope that the choice of day will mean fewer clashes with all the other work, family and mates’ xmas events with which folk are inundated at this time of the year and allow more of us to get out at the same time with no excuses! – so it’s 4th December and the meal is booked for 8pm.

The Xmas brochure is available here (pdf), but I’ve put the highlights below for you. Ain’t I nice. It’s £20.

I’ve booked for 18 and the usual ‘rules’ apply: First come, first served; £10 deposit per seat required to secure it and required asap in any case; club members and partners (sexual, not badminton) get priority and if there are any places left I’ll open it up to ‘friends of the club’. Balance can be settled on the night – I’ll collect what’s left before the meal.

I’d like to get the final list, deposits and food choices together by Monday 24th November, so that’s the cut-off.

Starters

• roasted parsnip, honey and wholegrain mustard from hawkshead relish company soup
• port of Lancaster smoked salmon, prawn and avocado salad served with a caper & citrus dressing
• locally sourced game terrine served with homemade cranberry and orange chutney
• smoked applewood cheese and caramelised onion tart served with mixed salad leaves and balsamic drizzle

Main

• locally reared roast turkey served with apricot and thyme stuffing, pigs in blankets and a port and redcurrant gravy
• baked herb crusted portobello mushrooms topped with melted goats cheese and served with butternut squash mash and winter leaf salad
• pot roast Cumbrian fell bred beef served with a red wine jus, root vegetables, button onions & creamy mash potatoes
• baked salmon fillet from Fleetwood served with horseradish infused creamed leeks and topped with a watercress and bacon salad

Dessert

• traditional Christmas pudding served with homemade brandy sauce
• auntie em’s chocolate torte served with vanilla infused crème anglais
• almond crème brulee served with homemade shortbread biscuits
• winter spiced fruit salad served with vanilla ice cream from cool cow at new holly farm

Anyway, the date is the 13th of December, that’s a Thursday night, and the place is The Borough, in Lancaster. We booked for 16 places, and the cost will be £20 per head. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis, and we will require a 10 pound deposit by the beginning of December.

The Borough does excellent food and is well regarded locally. They have an excellent website, and the Christmas menu is available from there. In addition, we will be circulating fliers with details of the evening and the menu at club night. Also, I’ve put the date in the club diary. Note that that week is cup week, but we’ve worked around all the matches so that’s all right!

Hope you can make it!

Lancaster Morecambe & District Badminton League Golf Tournament 2007

This event is to be played at Heysham Golf Club on Wednesday, 27th June, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

It is open to Players and Officials, both past and present, who have played in the Badminton League.

The cost is £25 which includes 18 Holes of Golf, a bar-type Meal afterwards and Prizes.

To win a prize, Players must have a current Handicap, although Social Golfers are welcome to attend and play in the Event.

The maximum handicap will be 21 for Men, 28 for Women and will be 7/8* of Handicap. The event will be Better Ball Stableford and teams can be of any combination. Those wishing to play as a four-ball should provide details of the other pair.

A golfing event has been run for the last 3 years with limited numbers. I would like to think that this year we can get a substantial number of players both past and present to play to create a good social occasion afterwards as well.

Can I ask that any Secretaries who do not play golf pass this to a golfing member of your club to see how many people would be interested?

Attached is an application form and it would be appreciated if these could be returned (with deposit of £10) by the 31st May in order that I can let the Golf Club have details of approximate numbers.

Kind Regards,

Ian Gardner

It’s semi-official because there’s not many of us going at the moment, and I’m putting the word around quite informally. This is partly because nobody seemed really bothered about the last one, which is fair enough.

Play starts at 6.45, so it’s an even bigger rush than getting to a home match…

Tickets are a tenner, and we’ll have to sort out some sort of car sharing. There are 4 of us in the the ‘official’ party at the moment, so that’s nice and easy.

I’ll be booking in the next day or so – I’ll probably ask around club night tomorrow (Monday 5th) and then book on Tuesday, if they haven’t already sold out, that is.

James.

INTERNATIONAL BADMINTON COMES TO LANCASHIRE
On Thursday, 22nd February 2007, Lancashire will once again host an International Match, ENGLAND -V- GERMANY. The Venue will be The Guild Hall at Preston, commencing at 6.45pm, and will be recorded by the BBC for transmission on Grandstand the following week-end.
Germany are rapidly becoming one of the stronger squads in Europe and when the two countries last met it was a very close match. It will be a full international match with 5 events, mens and ladies singles, mens and ladies doubles and mixed doubles. Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson will be playing, together with the new Danish Open winners, Donna Kellog and Anthony Clark. England have probably one of the best squads for many years, come and see them in action.
The last two matches at The Guild Hall have been sell outs so avoid disappointment the Ticket Sales Hotline is 01908 268400 (Badminton England, Milton Keynes)
More information will follow, so to avoid disappointment get ringing!

Anyone fancy it? The last international was quite entertaining, and you may even get on telly, like what I did. I’ll put it in the calendar, anyway.

The Christmas meal has now been booked at Quite Simply French, 27a St. Georges Quay, Lancaster, for 8 p.m. 2/12/2006. This will be the second visit by the club this year, and the last one was thoroughly enjoyable.

This year the meal is £20 per head for 3 courses¹. There are no drinks included in that price, and any ‘additions to compliment’ must be paid for separately on the evening (don’t order in advance).

Places are strictly limited and available on a first-come-first-served basis. We require a £5 deposit and your starter and main course preference by 31/10/2006² – Give your money and choices to one of:

1. Your team captain
2. Stuart Allan
3. James Illingworth
4. Cynthia Dickinson

but Stuart should be your first port of call, really.

Here, for your convenience, the menu³.

Starters

Footnotes

1. before you ask, the third course is presumably variable and to be selected on the evening, as the menu only shows starters and main courses – I don’t know any more than that [back]
2. sorry, only 2 weeks notice, but would more notice have made any difference? [back]
3. Which can also be downloaded here [back]