Call the fessionals j. The Pro£ THE BRITISH CLUB d B kok 10500 Tel: 2340247 234-2592 Telex: 84633 Alcon TH I CONTENTS 4 DIARY CLUB ROUNDUP 6 Tra falgar Nigh t: Lord Nelson 2 Hilton Hotel 3 The EGM: A Survivor's Plea The Bangkok St. Andrew's Society Guy Fawkes Celebration 15 LETTERS Sakdep's Travels: A soldier TRAVEL LOG of the Roval Horse Guard. 19 Letter from India: "A big stone in a little field" Sakdep's Travels: Holiday in Britain IN DEPTH 26 For some, the season of sharing is year-round NEW HORIZONS 28 Bangkok Book Group Some of the most beautiful and deli cate furniture and handicrafts in the world are WELL WORTH WATCHING Letter from I ndia: The 29 created in Chiang Mai. The best known New additions to the video library manufacturers, Chiengmai Treasures Co. burden being thrown off? and Chiangmai Sudaluk Co) .. , ~' ,;L~t~d~. ~~~~ their reputation on quality" 30 TALKING POINT excellencc. Castles in the air That's why they choose -. 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Tel: Mo Harris 258-5603 Tue 16 8.30-10.00am Yoga 3.00-S.00pm DECEMBER 6-9 yr old's Christmas Party Man British Women's Group Mahjong, Wordsworth Room 9.00am Football Training at British Club 6.30pm 7.30pm Ladies' Tennis 3.00-5.00pm Bridge New Members' Night/Happy Hour 5.30-9.00pm British Women's Group Bridge Wordsworth Room 9.00am Wed 17 4.45pm Tue 2 Ladies' Golf. Tel: Mo Harris 258-5603 Cricket Practice from 6.00pm Yoga 8.30- 1O.00am Squash & Tennis Club Night Football Training at British Club 6.30pm 8.30-1O. 30am British Club E.G.M. 7.00pm ThiJ 18 Ladies' Tennis British Women's Group Lunch at Regent Hotel II.OOam Bridge 7.30pm Tel: Barbara Noon 251-5440 5.00-7.00pm Wed 3 British Women's Group Bridge, Wordsworth Room 9.00am 10-14 yr old's Christmas Party Cricket Practice 4.45pm Football Training al British Club 6.30pm J Tennis & Squash Club Night from 6.00pm 8.30- 1O.00am Yoga Fri 19 7.00pm Thu 4 Ladies' Tennis 8.30- 1O.30am British Chili Christmas Ball Football Training at British Club 6.30pm 2.00pm Cricket Practice Sat 20 6.00&8.00pm Fri S Yoga 8.30·1O.00am Dinner Video I Holiday: H.M King's Birthday 9.30am football Match. Indians v British Club at I.S.B. J Sat 6 Cricket Practice 10.00am 2.00pm Sun 21 Cricket Practice Dinner Video 6.00&8.00pm Round Robin Tennis Tournament 2.00pm from 6.00pm J Sun 7 Cricket Practice 2.00pm Buffet Supper Buffet Supper 3.00-5.00pm from 6.00pm Man 22 British Women 's Group Childrell 's Christmas Party at Hilton. J Tel: Pat Garvey 251-6555, Jean Punott 258-0680 Man 8 British Women's Group Mahjong, Wordsworth Room 9.00am 5.30-9.00pm Ladies' Tennis 3.00·5.00pm • Happy Hour J Happy Hour 5.30-9.00pm Ladies' Golf. Tel: Mo Harris 258-5603 Tue 23 8.30-1O.00arn Yoga . ~ Tues 9 Ladies' Golf. Tel: Mo Harris 258-5603 7.30pm Yoga 8.30-1O.00am Bridge from 6.00pm Bridge 7.30pm Wed 24 Tennis & Squash Club Night Opening of Art Exhibition at Neilson Hays Library 5.30-7.30pm Christmas Eve To continue until January 6th Thur 25 HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERY?NE! Wed 10 British Women's Group Bridge, Wordsworth Room 9.00am Boxing Day - if you don't know why it's called this, Cricket Practice 4.45pm Fri 26 Tennis & Squash Club Night from 6.00pm please see "Children's Corner" 2.00pm Football at I.S.B. Y.T.S.A. v British Club 9.30pm Cricket Practice Sat 27 6.00&8.00pm Thu II Ladies' Tennis 8.30- 1O.30am Dinner Video ~, I ,~ 10.00arn B.A.M:B.L Meeting 9.00-II.00am Cricket Practice Sun 28 from 6.00pm Fri 12 Yoga 8.30-1O.00am Buffel Supper 5.30·9.00pm Bangkok Community Theatre Christmas Party, USIS, Sathom Rd. 7.30pm Man 29 Happy Hour Sat 13 Hil/tribe Sale International School Soi 15 9.30-12.00am Ladies' Golf. Tel: Mo Harris 258·5603 Tue 30 8.30- 10.00am Children ,'s Hour at Neilson Hays Library with Father Christmas 10.00-11.00am Yoga 7.30pm Cricket Practice 2.00pm Bridge Dinner Video 6.00&8.00pm Wed 3 1 NEW YEAR'S EVE BABY BOOMERS' DISCO Sun 14 Cricket Practice - lO.OOam Buffet Supper from 6.00pm Man IS British Women's Group Mahjong, Wordsworth Room 9.00am NOTE: Non-club events are in italics British Women's Group Outing to KLM Kitchells. • , Tel. Pat Garvey 251-6555 ~------------------------------~5 4 J • Trafalgar Night Lord Nelson 2 Hilton Hotel 3 . .. LACK tie dinners usually lose most Rogers standing astride somebody's can­ B of their colour and atmosphere non and holding somebody's balls, we when the ladies are not invited, but the trooped across the gangplank into a Hilton Hotel gave us both in good mea­ dining room which was surrounded by sure on Trafalgar Night. (Really?' Ed.) bulwarks (I think that's the correct Rum was meted out by Captain spelling!) and bedecked with rigging, flags Organ Morgan on arrival by waiters and fighting Men O'War. correctly described as very able seamen, There was even a smoke machine and after customary photographs with and sounds of battle so you couldn't the evening's "Napoleon," Barrington confuse it with Lord Jim's' The hotel also made a big effort with the food View. Frank was his usual eloquent self .. which was not your typical navy rations, and managed to keep everyone informed being borne in to the dining room should­ and entertained without repeating too er high in a candle light (tapers really') much of what he said last year. procession. After the toast to "The Immortal After a toast to King George, the Memory", Frank resumed his seat and sovereign of the day, which H.M . Consul joined the rest of us drinking, singing Peter Warden told us had to be mage and listening to jokes in a variety of sitting down, the ship 's company settled accents, not all understandable. The idea down to listen to the speeches. of putting the songsheet up on the screen • Barrington Rogers, looking very would have been a good one had the much the part in his Napoleon's uni­ words all been up the right way, and if • form, fired the first Salvo with some the "chorus" had stood to one side so witty insights into Napoleon's background we could see them! in the "Franglais" style of Punch Maga­ Predictably, most of the diners zine. (That's the one you can read in the repaired to the 99 Club in the early British Club bar or the waiting room of hours. I left at half past two and ,the the British Dispensary.) I digress. Napo­ party was still going strong! Summing leon cast a few broadsides at Nelson up the evening, the St. George's Society which pleased that other Frenchman Jean need to "choreograph" the singing/enter­ Paul Menardi no end, and then Frank tainment part of the. evening a little more Rowland responded with the British closely, but the Hilton Hotel got it all 6 7 righ t' And special thanks to Barry Rogers • who stepped in as Napoleon at 24 hours' ULet the minutes notice! show that Rumour has it that next year you'll 1IIn. Langster took umbrage. n hear about the battle from the point of view of one of the able seamen who saw all the action on Nelson's flagship . ~ Pass the rum, lads! MANAGEMENT Lm1ITED • e The EGM: A Survivor's Plea To the Extraordinary Meeting of October twenty-first Came members with diverse opinions and common thirst. Each one was free to do his share of bleating And drinking grog (or even surreptitious eating). • ROYAL SQUARE. ST. HEllER. 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