Happy Easter 2018

Wishing everyone a very 

Happy Easter from

the Ladies Lunch Club d'Armagnac

For more information, please email

lunchclubgascogne@gmail.com

What's On 2019

WHAT'S ON FOR JAN/FEB 2019

CINEMA (VO)

Lectoure -     

                                
Marciac -       
                 

Nogaro -      

Barbotan -  
          
Eauze -    

Condom -     
                      

Fleurance -   
     

Plaisance -      
                     
                 
                 
Fleurance - There is a cinema club who meet every Thursday at 17.30.  Please contact susan.brissaud@wanadoo.fr for more information.                              
                  
                  

LLC LUNCH - 

Tuesday 15th January 2019

at

Le Ferme de Flaran
Maignaut-Tauzia (nr Valence-sur-Baise)

THEATRE -   

LLC SocialProgramme

  

Book Club - 

Talking Shop - 

Walking Activities


Friday 8 February 2019 -  

Wednesday 13 February 2019 - 

Gardening Group - 

            

MISC -  


     
Future Dates for your diary

Tuesday 12th February 2019 - LLC AGM at Reans - starts at 10.30 am

Tuesday 12th March - Lunch at La Falene Blue, Lannepax
            

For more information or to email your 

'What's On' updates for your village,

please contact

lunchclubgascogne@gmail.com

         

April LLC Lunch 10th April 2018

Dear Ladies

We are delighted to welcome you to the next

LLC lunch on Tuesday 10th April at 

Chateau de Caumale, Escalans

which is just in the Landes.  This mediaeval-style 12th century Chateau is a new venue for us but one that has already been enjoyed by members of the Committee.

Our hostess and LLC member, Genevieve (Vivi) Fabre looks forward to welcoming us to her home and table and hopes that we will have a very enjoyable meal and take the opportunity to take a tour of the Château after lunch.  

Welcome cocktail

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Croustillant epinards au fromage de chèvre et huile de truffe

Croustillant of spinach and goat’s cheese with truffle oil 

Poulet grillé, sauce aux morilles

Grilled chicken with Morel sauce

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Saumon Louisiane au vin blanc et lait de coco

Louisiana salmon with white wine and coconut milk sauce

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Assiette de desserts

Tarte aux pommes Caumale

Apple tart

Fondant au chocolat avec crème anglaise

Chocolate fondant with crème anglaise 

The cost is 18 Euro, which includes a welcome drink, wine and coffee.  This is great value. 

 April reservations & Chateau tour

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Geneviève also offers a guided tour of the Chateau  and will use any donations raised to support renovation.   Please can you indicate on the booking form if you would like to participate in a guided tour after the lunch.  This will allow us to assess interest and logistics.  Please go to the website for more information www.chateaudecaumale.fr.

The deadline for booking is Monday 2nd April, so please can you submit your reservation form as soon as possible together with your choice of main course.

Please send me an email on lunchclubgascogne@gmail.com if you are having problems with the form or feel that it has not worked (you should get a notification at the end of the process).  If you are having problems, I will manually add you to the list (please also let me know your choices).  I will send out a list of responses before the deadline.

We look forward to welcome you from 12:00.  Please bring either your cheque for €18, made payable to “Ladies Lunch Club de l’Armagnac”, or cash in an envelope marked with your name.  Your assistance with this is much appreciated as it helps to speed up the booking-in process. 

Please note that you will be charged if you cancel within 72 hours of the lunch. 

The LLC Committee look forward to welcoming you to a lively and convivial luncheon at this interesting and very historic venue on 10th April.

Other news :

May Meeting :  Please note that due to public holidays the next meeting will be on the 3^rd Tuesday of the month ie the 15^th May at Estang.

Club activities – Please see Margaretha’s blog for an update on some of the plans and proposals (if you have not already seen this)  April Blog

Membership renewal closes at the end of April - If you wish to renew and have not already done so, please send me an email and let me know your intentions or contact me if you need a renewal form at lunchclubgascogne@gmail.com.  Thank you to everyone who has already renewed your membership for 2018.

What’s on in April -  We have received notification of the following from our members (which will be posted on Facebook and put on the blog)

• Cinema Club - Thursday afternoon in Fleurance at 5:30 (every other week).  Enjoy an English spoken film and then spend time discussing the film and chatting over a glass of wine.  For more information contact Susan.Brissaud@wanadoo.fr. 
  • 29^th March The Mercy 5:30.
  • 12^th April – The Shape of Water
  • 26^th April - Lady Bird
  • Upcoming films : The Death of Stalin, The sense of an ending.
• LLC Lunch 10^th April
• Demu - Troc / Vide Jardin 15^th April.  Bring and buy for gardeners.  Reserve a 2m exhibiting table for €1 to sell plants and cuttings or go along to buy.  More info on Facebook or on request (by email)
• English Theatre Company “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead” by Tom Stoppard.  6pm 4^th & 5^th May at Lectoure and 11^th & 12^th May at Maubourguet.  More information to follow
• Tuesday 15^th May – LLC lunch – Estang

If you have more cultural / village activities to add please let me know and we will post them for you.

Best wishes

Janet

LLC Secretary

LATEST POST FROM MARGARETHA

Dear Ladies

Another month has passed and we are standing on the threshold of spring. Or rather, I sincerely hope that the weather is on the point of improving as I have just about had it with all this rain. At home, our black, grey and coloured horses have now all turned a uniform sludge-brown, the colour of the mud they take such pleasure in rolling in, several times a day.

Last month, I spent a fair part of the month in South Africa, visiting my father whom I had not seen for two years. He is turning 80 next year, so the time I have to spend with him is running out. Admittedly, I really should not be complaining about the weather, as it was mid-summer in South-Africa in February, but I did get back here in time for the snow and the very, very cold week that preceded it.

As soon as I got back, the committee met to formulate a policy regarding our online presence: our Facebook page, our Facebook group, our website and blog. We took on board that you would rather not see too many adverts on your timeline, so we decided that the Facebook group, a members-only zone, will feature no commercial adverts whatsoever. All commercial adverts will now appear on our Facebook page only.  

Janet, our secretary, will oversee these changes and she will be helped by Denise, who will look after our online presence and by Kathy who will be in charge of collecting useful information. We are hoping to make the activities of the various subgroups more accessible to all members of the club, whether they are members of the individual subgroups or not. We will, therefore, be meeting with the leaders of the subgroups in the not too distant future.

We also talked about clarifying and simplifying the unique identity of the LLC, by choosing specific colours for the club, having a new logo for the club created professionally and by designing new visiting cards and name badges featuring our new colours and logo. Any input from members would be very welcome

We have spoken to new members (and to several longterm members too) to confirm the need for a more streamlined approach to integrating new members into the club and to introduce them to the club's activities. I would be the first to admit that it can be intimidating to walk into a room full of women I have never me. We thought it would be useful to have someone in charge welcoming new members as they arrive and introducing them to other members who may have similar interests or live nearby to them. This person will also discuss the various subgroups with new members and help them access the subgroups they may be interested in joining. I have discussed this task with Ann Purnell and I am very grateful to report that she is happy to take on this responsibility. 

As always there was a whole bunch of official matters to discuss at the committee meeting, involving an ever-more-astonishing amount of red tape - I definitely do not intend to bore you with that. Suffice to say everything on that front is going more or less according to plan, even though it does seem to take forever.

Ladies, we are running a bit low on prizes for the raffle and we would hugely appreciate if you could send anything suitable our way. We use the money we make to pay for extras to make this year's Summer Supper extra special, so it is all for a good cause. By the way, the Summer Supper this year will most likely be on Saturday the 7th of July, although this still has to be confirmed.

I wish you all a splendid spring season and as usual, we welcome any comments or questions that you may have. Please address these to Janet, on lunchclubgascogne@gmail.com