PILOT SOCIAL CLUB DIARY OF EVENTS JANUARY 2016
We saw in the New Year by going to a concert of light
classical music at St Albans Abbey, followed by hospitality at a member’s home.
Another January highlight was our delicious Burns Night supper, plus quiz, at a
hall in Tyttenhanger.
Our regular Thursday pub-nights were at our usual
venues: a pub on the Hatfield road, a pub in Chiswell Green, and twice at a pub
in north St Albans, plus our popular new spot, the Hemel
Hempstead Ski Centre. The regular Monday night quiz at the Hatfield road pub
continued, as did the first Tuesday lunch at the north St Albans pub. Dancers went to the regular dance-club
event at Edgware.
Film and theatre events included “Spectre”,
“Macbeth”, “Suffragette” and “Bridge of Spies” at St Albans Arena; “Joy”,
“Sunset Song” and a live-screening of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at Campus
West, Welwyn Garden City; the play
“Brassed Off” at The Barn Theatre in Welwyn Garden City; and the play “Eclipsed”
at the Abbey Theatre in St Albans.
There was an evening of “silly and sensible” games in
a member’s home, and a crib evening in another member’s home.
Members also joined a coach trip to a behind-the-scenes
tour at Wembley Stadium. Some members went to a pop-up auction in Welwyn. There
was a Pilot club trip by train to see some free exhibitions around King’s
Cross, subjects ranging from a Tibetan Temple, to a pioneering woman doctor, to “Alice in Wonderland”, to contemporary ceramics.
So we certainly didn’t stay at home and hibernate: we
were out-and-about enjoying ourselves.
Coming up in February we have a visit to Westminster
Abbey. Films will include “The Danish Girl” at the Arena, and “Spotlight” and “Leviathan”
at Campus West. Theatre will include “The Real Thing” at the Abbey Theatre, and
“The Weir” at Wheathampstead. We will be going to a concert of classical music
at the University of Hertfordshire. There will be a special Valentine’s Dance at the
Edgware dance club, and a Health Walk in Heartwood Forest followed by a drink in a pub. We’re
also booking now for the live-screening of “Hangmen” at Campus West, and a
coach trip to Brooklands Museum of Motorsport and Aviation, both coming up in
March.
If you would like to have good company to go to any
of these events, or to an event that you would like to put in our programme,
just contact our New Members’ Co-ordinator by using the box on the main page of
this website.
