News of the OVs Dinner, Dec 2007
News from John Asplet of the OVs Dinner, held, as it is each year, in the Great Hall at Victoria College.
John had issued an email in October, hoping to get folk from the Class of 1982 to attend the dinner on December 20 to mark 25 years since we left Vic.
As you'll see from the following report from John, his call to arms wasn't met with an overwhelming response, and, unfortunately, three of the crew were seemingly unaware of John's attempts and were sat elsewhere in the hall. I know Rob Reid won't have received John's email because Rob is yet to enter the dangerous online world of electronic mail. He's such a traditionalist!!
Anyway, here is the report from 'Asplet':
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"Well what a poor show! There were just 6 from the class of 82, and three of those were very wise and got seated well away from the other three. These lucky folk were Mike Stein, Stuart Gower and Robert Reid. However them seemed to be too friendly with Senator Philip Ozouf if you ask me. [[RAY NOTE: PHILIP OZOUF -- IS HE WORTH BEING FRIENDLY WITH?]]
We also had two empty seats as Richard Boleat and Barry le Cheminant had both booked tickets but unless they are very thin didn't show up. Roger Bartley's promised bottle of 1982 Opus One was obviously confiscated at customs!
So this left three lonely souls of myself, Trevor Dearsley and Andrew Wadman. Oh well, at least we had extra wine and port between us, something of a mistake come Friday morning!
Apparently it was the usual sort of chaos for this event, although I had never been to one before, the Headmaster speaks before the meal and then they had a guest OV afterwards although I have no idea who he was, and he was rather dull."
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So, who was this "rather dull" speaker? We must find out...
Anyone with any ideas please post a message or send me an email at
ray.lemaistre@gmail.com
and/or
ray.lemaistre@ntlworld.com
All and any reports from The Rock or from any of the Class of '82 -- or '83, or whenever -- from Vic of Girls' College most welcome.
In the now famous words of Delia Smith -- "Let's be havin' you!! Come on!!!"
(Check out YouTube if you don't know what I am on about...)
Ray
John had issued an email in October, hoping to get folk from the Class of 1982 to attend the dinner on December 20 to mark 25 years since we left Vic.
As you'll see from the following report from John, his call to arms wasn't met with an overwhelming response, and, unfortunately, three of the crew were seemingly unaware of John's attempts and were sat elsewhere in the hall. I know Rob Reid won't have received John's email because Rob is yet to enter the dangerous online world of electronic mail. He's such a traditionalist!!
Anyway, here is the report from 'Asplet':
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"Well what a poor show! There were just 6 from the class of 82, and three of those were very wise and got seated well away from the other three. These lucky folk were Mike Stein, Stuart Gower and Robert Reid. However them seemed to be too friendly with Senator Philip Ozouf if you ask me. [[RAY NOTE: PHILIP OZOUF -- IS HE WORTH BEING FRIENDLY WITH?]]
We also had two empty seats as Richard Boleat and Barry le Cheminant had both booked tickets but unless they are very thin didn't show up. Roger Bartley's promised bottle of 1982 Opus One was obviously confiscated at customs!
So this left three lonely souls of myself, Trevor Dearsley and Andrew Wadman. Oh well, at least we had extra wine and port between us, something of a mistake come Friday morning!
Apparently it was the usual sort of chaos for this event, although I had never been to one before, the Headmaster speaks before the meal and then they had a guest OV afterwards although I have no idea who he was, and he was rather dull."
=====
So, who was this "rather dull" speaker? We must find out...
Anyone with any ideas please post a message or send me an email at
ray.lemaistre@gmail.com
and/or
ray.lemaistre@ntlworld.com
All and any reports from The Rock or from any of the Class of '82 -- or '83, or whenever -- from Vic of Girls' College most welcome.
In the now famous words of Delia Smith -- "Let's be havin' you!! Come on!!!"
(Check out YouTube if you don't know what I am on about...)
Ray
posted by Ray Le Maistre at 1:39 AM
1 Comments:
Re: lack of interest.
Might have something to do with the Great Hall not being the best venue for a blow-out. I would have suggested the Bartley games room - always guaranteed to provide a memorable moment or three! Under the snooker table, anybody?
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