Chairman’s Corner— December 2011
DECEMBER 2011 We had a lovely lunch last month, addressed by Tim Cooke with a slide show on the merits and potential pitfalls of micro-finance projects in Kenya and Tanzania. Apparently one essential is a personal Masai warrior armed with bow and poison arrows.…
So this fairy flies into the Amsterdam Wyndham hotel dining room dressed as the chairman of CADS.
This year’s CADS Jokathon was a huge success with over 40 members turning up to deliver new, dusted down, inappropriate, brilliant, terrible and sometimes funny jokes for the 2011 Jokathon.
Chairman’s Corner—November 2011
I missed our October lunch due to our brief holiday in Egypt. Mike Carn was kind enough to step in as chair, John Bright gave a good introduction to the work of the British Legion and Poppy Fund, and we…
Think of CADS as a cultivated digression from the crude storm of the everyday
First of all do not be fooled by our name. We are neither commercial nor a society that provides any joint usefulness. Our purpose is either pointless or well hidden. We are not sure which.
Chairman’s Corner —October 2011
Our September lunch was the first of the autumn season, and we enjoyed a pleasant lunch back in our usual surroundings of the terrace room. Our speaker Millicent Odongo gave us an interesting introduction to the FOR organisation which has…
Chairman’s Corner —September 2011
As they say, August can be changeable. Two hours before our August lunch at the Dutch International Cricket Ground, the heavens opened and dumped 15mm of water on the Amsterdamsebos in 30 minutes. Fortunately the superb ground irrigation at the…
Chairman’s Corner—August 2011(part 1)
Ladies and gentlemen, We had a very pleasant, well-attended lunch last month, with a short debate on the BBC World Service radio, proposed by yours truly after the fashion of Mark Anthony at Caesar’s funeral. After a spirited rebuttal by…
Chairman’s Corner—August 2011 (part two)
Gold and Sex A firm on Wall Street is scamming the market. Circulating on the Internet is the program developer’s version of the story. This large Wall Street institution has for the past 10 years been tapping into the SEC…
