The Rudi brigade restarts. GIN lunches stopped in Feb 2020 but restarted today at L’Imperial, a super Chinese restaurant in Etoy, organised by Alan Baker. Clearly it was going to be good to travel that distance, and indeed it was.
All you can eat, any number of visits to the buffet, fresh food, Chinese delicacies and all the usual menu and sauces, all for chf 23, washed down with some fine beer and coffee. This is a really good value for money eatery. Many of us said we would be taking our spouses back there..
Friendly service and it was not too noisy inside (the weather was iffy) so we could hear easily across the table. Paul showed us a draft copy of his latest book about the Ganesh images and statues that he owns. It looks a must have.
The location was a tad distant, but quite quick to drive to and great for parking and for Aldi, Qualipet, Pfister, Hornbach, etc. etc. shopping afterwards.
Alan had written to us
“The occasion may also be used to discuss the future of GIN Lunches, other GIN groups having possibly diluted interest in them amongst the current 73 GIN Members. (Mark Warren’s recent observation that “GIN Lunches are an integral part of GIN for getting us all together and discussing issues” is worth considering). Rudi Pluss, the current GIN Lunches Coordinator, will kindly provide further past, present and future input for us.”
We duly discussed future lunches and the next three now have organisers.
I think I can say that we all ten of us thoroughly enjoyed the event and that GIN lunches are now firmly back on the agenda.
NEXT LUNCH
PETER TAYLOR WILL ORGANISE A LUNCH AT FOUNEX TENNIS CLUB IN MID OCTOBER.
Attending STEPHEN LONG, ALAN BAKER, RUDI PLUSS, DAVE GWILLIAM, BRIAN ALLARDYCE, TERRY GALE, PAUL SOCACHEWSKI, DAVE GERNANDT, MARK WATTS, PETER TAYLOR
THATCHER SHELLABY AND DREW MEEK (Apologies RECEIVED ) There may have been many others.
