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Apr 182014
 
Golf at Etchinghill

Purrrrfect. That was how the day started. Beautiful clear morning where you could see forever with the sun drying out the overnight dew. No great hurry as we were teeing off at just after 11:15 so down the M20 to the lovely club of Etchinghill where we joined some 90 other Rotarians and their friends.

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Feb 062014
 
Light Entertainment

Our speaker on 3rd February, Chris Hare, explained that his career in “light entertainment” was a proper job, in spite of view to the contrary. Following in his father’s performing footsteps and saying that he had is mother’s legs (unproven), he had brushes with many a famous actor/actress. Telling jokes and reminiscing over humorous encounters

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Jan 272014
 
Foodbanks

From the moment visiting Rotarian Diane Marsh got up to talk to us at our lunch meeting on 27th January, everyone present knew that she believed in the local Foodbank project with a passion. Explaining that a visit to a former Rotarian that had fallen on very hard times had galvanised her resolve to help

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Jan 212014
 
Dragons, Lions & China Today

  As Ashley Davies rose to take the floor, the audience immediately experienced the buzz and colourful excitement as he talked us through the festivals that he initiated with the Chinese community of Medway in recent years (even to the extent of getting President Adrian to operate a festival lion). He then expanded his talk

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Oct 302013
 
Meeting 7 October 2013

Service Above Self – the motto and ethos that the Rotary Club functions under and Nigel Coombes, the evening’s speaker, chose this as the base point for an evening of informed discussion. The audience relished the open and thought provoking way in which he embraced the motto’s relation with numerous religions, with politics, with ethics

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