Heil Merckel!
So was this an accident – or intentional 🙂 Ben has a mischievous smile…
Category Greetings from the Chair
January 2014 Chairman’s Corner
Best wishes for a healthy and successful 2014. The Jokathon again provided an excellent crop of jokers, notably John Richardson, Toni Scriven, Louise Hunter, and of course the eventual winner John Donnelly, who reserved his best moments until the…
December 2013 Chairman’s Corner
December Chairman’s Corner Christmas is coming, and that means…        …Sint and his Zwarte Piets are here and the UN is criticising the Dutch tradition as racist… …Xmas is coming and the goose is getting fat …Santa Claus is coming to…
CADS makes donations to GiveWatts and Hulphond
Earlier this year, CADS board member Sue Bennion was taken from us by particularly cruel pancreatic and liver cancers. Sue had been a staunch supporter of many charities, including Hulphond which trains helper dogs to enable disabled people to live…
Chairman’s Corner November 2013
Dear fellow CADS After last month’s erudite and bittersweet recollections by Maarten Frankenhuis of Artis in WWII, and his relationship with our founder Gerard Metzelaar, we have been busy in November. Last Friday, Judge Greenwood entertained 18 of us at…
Chairman’s Corner October 2013
Dear fellow CADS Last month’s lunch saw us entertaining not one but two speakers. First; as and with our appetiser, BBC and ESU Award winner Frederike Brockhoven gave us a highly entertaining, passionate, professional and articulate argument for how innovation…
Chairman’s Corner September 2013
Dear fellow CADS This month is news-packed! We had the CADS golf day (report elsewhere in this issue by Antonio), and arranged an outing for November 15th at the Peace Palace iincluding a tour of the Palace and the ICJ,…
Chairman’s Corner August 2013
Dear Fellow CADS, Courtesy of our cricket-mad editor John Richardson, last month we had an excellent luncheon with wine at the VRA cricket ground. This was accompanied by a friendly match between a visiting Australian side, and a scratch Dutch team. This month we will…
Aircraft loading – Chinese style
Thought you might like to know how quality conscious workers have become in China. A salutary lesson for those of us doing business there! [youtube=]
