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The Master’s Year

On conclusion of the church service we again made our way back
to the Hotel, where we enjoyed the last formal meal of the
weekend – Sunday Lunch – again washed down with copious
amounts of wine. After lunch, many made their way home whilst a
hard core of attendees stayed on and enjoyed a more informal
meal at Loch Fyne prior to retiring to bed for the last time of the
Master’s Weekend, having elected to travel home after breakfast
on Monday.
All in all – a memorable and enjoyable weekend, and our thanks
must go to the Master and Mistress for organising the weekend so
well and also the splendid weather given the earlier time of year.
Jemima Phillips during dinner
Next year’s Master’s Weekend is split into two. For the adventurous amongst us there will be a weekend in Hong Kong in April
and there will also be weekend in Cambridge during the Summer Vacation. ALL members are welcome, not just the “usual
suspects”, and more details should be obtained from the Master.

Informal Social Events

Your Publicity and Events committee works very hard to provide a varied programme of informal events through each year.
This year was no different, although in some instances support for the events was somewhat reduced, and your events
committee would very much like to understand why this was.

The year started out with one of our informal lunches at Ironmongers’ Hall. 27 Members and their guests attended and a
good time was reported by all. On a bright November day several members and their families took up our usual position
outside St Mary-le-Bow to view the Lord Mayor’s procession, including our (The Master, The Renter Warden and our
Apprentice, Jack Holmes) participation in the procession as part of the Modern Livery Companies section. Several of the
onlookers then decamped to the Little Ship Club for a basic, but convivial, lunch.

December saw our “annual” Festive Lunch at Ironmongers’ Hall
when, despite wintry weather and problems with rail transport
47 members and guests (very much a “Full House”) sat down to
a special festive menu in our own room at Ironmongers’ Hall.
Party hats and Christmas spirit(s!) predominated as can be seen
in the photograph.
We dined at Ironmongers’ Hall again at the end of January 2018.
Whilst our numbers were somewhat reduced compared with the
Festive Lunch all 24 people seemed to enjoy the occasion, and a
number decanted thereafter to the Little Ship Club to continue
the camaraderie.
On 6 February we were extremely fortunate that one of our members, Dragan Krstevski, arranged for
us to visit London Wall Place, a construction site in the city that was in the final stages of completion.
Whilst there were only a limited
number of attendees notable
among them was our Honorary
Chaplain, who was absolutely
delighted to be able to see St
Lawrence Jewry from the upper
floors of the building rather than
just seeing the building by looking
up from his church. For those of us
who are used to the “normal” size
of cantilevers the steelwork in these
buildings was just incredible –
massive wasn’t the word.

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