Tuesday 27 December 2011 December is shaping up to be the third wettest since records began in 2006, while Christmas Day was the second warmest on record at 12 Celsius, according to weather bureaus on Tuesday. So far this month…
Gerald Scarfe has now been political cartoonist for the London Sunday Times for 44 years, and has also worked for The New Yorker magazine for 21 years.
Westerdok, Amsterdam
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.…
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.
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…
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.
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…
CADS the Commercial Anglo Dutch Society
