Please join us on the 1st from 8.00pm for informal First Thursday chat at The Old Beams at Shenley Lodge. Feel free to join us for a meal or just a drink - look out for the Mblem or mag. See http://www.mcmullens.co.uk/oldbeams for location, menu etc.
On Thursday 2nd from 8.15pm we're at the Millstream, Cambridge Road, Hitchin. Good food and good beer both available! Call me for more details and encouragement. The pub is about ten minutes' walk from the railway station.
Unusually our two regular events fall in the same week. Join us from 8.00pm on Monday 5th for a drink at the Vat & Fiddle pub on Queensbridge Road in the city centre.
Or from 7.30pm on Thursday 8th for a meal and/or drink at the Beekeeper in Beeston. Please note that our "natter & nosh" event on Thursday 13th December will be the Nottingham Mensa Christmas meal and booking is essential. 2 courses £9.99 or 3 courses £12.99 plus a voucher booklet for each diner valid at any Hungry Horse pub throughout 2013. We've saved £££s, had free starters and desserts, and some free rounds of drinks this year on top of already bargain prices. Not bad!
For November I am going to try a mid-week daytime meeting. Join me in the Costa near the church in the centre of High Wycombe from 10.30am on Thursday 8th for a relaxed coffee and conversation. I will try to get one of the comfortable sofas downstairs. Just come in and look for me inside.
If you let me know you are coming I will save you a space! For directions or encouragement please contact me.
We are having a rather quiet month in November but do join us on Saturday 10th, 12.05-2.00pm for our usual 2SaOTM pub discussion at the Adam & Eve on Lindum Hill, Lincoln. When we are assembled we will start a discussion on, 'Is too much safety dangerous?', before rambling onto other subjects and more general chat. Contact me for encouragement.
Monday 12th at 8.00pm: If I ruled the world . . . What should be a lively and eye-opening get-together. Express your views about what life would be like in 'your world'. Venue is TBA and will be emailed nearer the time. If you wish to be included in our local emails then please contact me.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November . . . because you'll be ten days too early for our usual gathering at The Craddock Pub! We'll be at the usual table . . . or another one if somebody nabs it first. Look out for the yellow mBlem or magazine on the table on Thursday 15th at 8:00pm.
On Friday 16th we're going to Nottingham Greyhound Stadium in Colwick once again. We've been taking part in a charity tournament and this is the final. Come and cheer on our allocated dog and see if we can win a cash prize and trophy. Tickets cost £5 each (normal admission and race card is £6) and all money goes to Cancer Research UK. Under 18s admitted free of charge if accompanied by an adult. I've been donated 100 tickets by the stadium so feel free to invite your friends, family and work colleagues! Gates open at 6.00pm with the first race at 6.28pm and the last race finished by 10.30pm. You can arrive/leave when you like but there will be a rendez-vous point at 7.00pm for anyone wishing to meet up. There's ample free parking and food/drink available at the venue. Contact me if you'd like to come to this fun night out.
Time for another country walk this month, and it's Stony Stratford's turn again. However, whereas in the past we have explored the picturesque town centre, this time it will be more rural, following the river around the edge of the town. We'll meet at 11.00am on Saturday 17th in the public car park at the bottom of Watermill Lane, which is off Stratford Road, just east of the A5 flyover. We'll then walk up to the river, and follow the river around the outside of the town, diverting into the town at some point for a pub lunch We will then cut across south of the town to complete the circle back to the car park.
Just our one regular event this month. We'll be at the Standing Order on Irongate in the city centre from 7.30pm on Wednesday 21st. We usually have the largest and most international table but were usurped in September by the foreign students from Derby University on freshers' week! Look for a yellow Mblem on one of the long tables in the low ceiling area at the rear of the pub. Come along for a meal or just a drink and stay as long as you like. Our next get together will be Wednesday 19th December and also the Derby Mensa Christmas meal. The cost is £8.25 for a main course including drink and £2.00 each for any starter or dessert. Booking is essential so please contact me as soon as possible.
Sunday breakfast will be at 10.15am on Sunday 25th, but please remember we have moved to Wetherspoon's on Midsummer Boulevard West, next to Chiquito's and not far up from the railway station (NOT the other Lloyds/Wetherspoons nearer the shopping centre and next to Jurys Inn). Come for a full breakfast, a snack, or just a drink - look for the Mblem on a table.
Monday 26th at 8.00pm: Pub meeting at King's Head, Bridge Road, Hunton Bridge, WD4 8RE. Autumnal weather makes for indoor meetings - so please look for the magazine on the table. We get a good turn out to the pub meets and have a wide age range - come and say hi! New members always warmly welcomed.
Come and join Pen Penny for a "Taste of Thai" on Tuesday 27th at 7.30pm. The restaurant is at 84-86 Market Street, Ashby de la Zouch, LE65 1AP, and has been given a 5 star rating for its hygiene standards! Please telephone her on [Phone Number] or e-mail at [Email] by Friday 23rd to let her know if you are coming so that she can book a table for the appropriate number of people.
On Wednesday 28th we will meet as usual at the Old Mill at 7.45-ish., the pub set back from the London Road, next door to the Esso petrol station. Look for the Mensa Mag on the table.
Come and chat / drink/ eat and see what happens.
On Friday 29th from 8.00pm we'll be at the Cowper Arms, Digswell, Herts (by Welwyn North station). Call me on [Phone Number] for more details and encouragement. The pub is next to the railway station, which is served by stopping trains from Kings Cross to Cambridge and Peterborough.