Les Gersabelles on concert in Eauze 29 June 2014

The Ladies Lunch Club Singing group collectively known as 

Les Gersabelles

News: 

Welcome to the concert with the 

Gersabelles singing group 

of the Ladies Lunch Club in the 

cathedral of Eauze on 

Sunday 29 June 2014 

at 17h 

Admission free, everyone welcome. 
We are an international group of ladies who enjoy singing, led by Sue Treeby (formerly Sue Kibbey, an experienced jazz singer). 
Our repertoire is varied (traditional, jazz) and includes The Rose, The Rhythm of Life, Hallelujah. 

Hope to see some of you there.

For more information about any of the above activities, concerts or events or our next meeting and venue, please contact:

Sue Treeby : Tel. 05 62 09 19 67 or
Ladieslunchclub secretary at
lunchclubgascogne(at)gmail.com

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June 2014 Ladies Luncheon in Marciac - invitation to our members

The June 2014 Ladies Luncheon will be held on 

Tuesday 10th June at 

LE CAFÉ ZIK, MARCIAC

Lac de Marciac - 32230 MARCIAC

at 12.30 for 1.00 pm

To conclude the first half of the year, before our summer break, we have arranged our June lunch at 
Le Café Zik on the edge of the beautiful lake in Marciac. 

Many of you will remember it from our past two Christmas lunches, but we thought it would be nice to try it in the summer, to give everyone the chance to spend some time, either walking around the lake, or partaking of one of the activities on the water! 
Or indeed visiting the town.

We are very pleased to announce that our new (Member)Name Badges are ready, and will be handed out at the lunch. We hope you will like this new, simple European design.

We look forward to welcoming you at Café Zik, but should you be unable to attend, please remember there will be no lunch in July and August. 
We therefore wish you an enjoyable summer wherever you will be, and hope you will find the list of activities (issued separately)useful. 

We recommence on the second Tuesday of September 2014.

MENU

Croustillant de chevre au miel et basilic

*

Filet de daurade, 

risotto et beurre de crustaces

*

Pana cotta de fruit exotiques, 

sorbet ananas gingembre

*

17€ (wine included)

Please make your reservation on the booking form which members received per email. 

If you are bringing a guest please use the same booking form but make a separate entry for your guest inserting her name after your submitted entry.

Please bring the correct money in a named envelope or make a cheque out to Cafe Zik and hand to the committee member who is taking the registrations.

Should you have any difficulty with the booking form or any other queries please contact our sectretary
Jane Cooper at lunchclubgascogne@gmail.com again

 before noon on 8th June.

We are looking forward to meeting and greeting our members and their guests.

some Dates for your Diary JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2014

some Dates for your Diary JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2014

Sunday 1st June:	Rare plant fair at Lamontjoie (between Condom and
30th, 31st May & 1st June:	Rendez-vous aux Jardins, for more details look at link     www.gascognefm.com/rendez-vous-aux-jardins-gers
3rd June:	VO film at Nogaro cinema, 9pm ‘The Horseman’ starring Tommy Lee Jones & Hilary Swank
7th , 8th & 9th June:	Feriade Pentecote  at Vic-Fezensac
10th June:	VO film at Nogaro cinema,, 9pm  ‘Joe’ starring Nicholas Cage
29th June:	TheLLC Choir  The Gersabelles will be giving a concert in the Cathedral in Eauze at 5.00 pm
18th, 19th, 20th July:	The Galop Romain Festival at Eauze.  A multitude of activities including a chariot race take place over three days. www.festivalgalopromain.com
25th July:	Tour de France, Stage 19 Leaves Maubourguet around midday-Marciac- Peyrusse Grande-Belmont-Vic Fezensac (during Tempo Latino!) - Condom-Lavardac-Bergerac (5pm)
24th – 27th July:	Tempo Latino at Vic-Fezensac.Wonderful salsa Festival. Concerts in the Arenes. Night market and Dancing in the streets! Great for people-watching!
28th July – 17th August:	Jazz in Marciac
9th & 23rd July: 6th & 20th August:	NightMarkets at Vic-Fezensac
General Good Fun Days Out:	La Maison desChameaux,  65700 Castelnau-Riviere-Basse.Tel 05 62 33 36 24. Open every day except Tuesday from 12.00 to 18.00 Animal park with lots to do for children of all ages!
General Good Fun Days Out:	ParcAcrobatique Forestier du Lac, Aignan. Tel: 06 78 54 03 60. Lake for swimming with beach, walks, Swinging in the trees for adults and children. Open every day from 11.00 to 19.00
General Good Fun Days Out:	Canoeing/Kayaking in the Gers, 05 62 29 19 44 Beaucaire-sur-Baise
General Good Fun Days Out:	Indoor go-karting at ChronoKart32 at Pavie, Auch Tel. 05 62 66 48 09
General Good Fun Days Out:	Outdoor go-karting near Agen, KartAgen at Layrac Tel. 05 53 87 84 52

                                         

The LLC Gersabelles concert in Eauze on 29 June 2014

The Ladies Lunch Club Singing group collectively known as 

Les Gersabelles

News: 

Welcome to the concert with the 

Gersabelles singing group 

of the Ladies Lunch Club in the 

cathedral of Eauze on 

Sunday 29 June 2014 

at 17h 

For more information about any of the above activities, concerts or events or our next meeting and venue, please contact:

Sue Treeby : Tel. 05 62 09 19 67 or
Ladieslunchclub secretary at
lunchclubgascogne(at)gmail.comAll are welcome to this group even if you don't think you can sing. 


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LLC Bookclub May 2014

LLC Bookclub - What's next?

For May 15th, 2014 we have chosen a book by an English author who is living near Auch in the Gers.
Venue as usual.

Her name is Amanda Hodgkinson and she will come and meet us to talk about her novel and her writing etc. Amanda writes in La Depeche every Sunday; short, sometimes amusing observations of life of an expat in France.
It will be interesting to talk with her about her 1st book is 22 Britannia Road.


In her powerful debut, Hodgkinson takes on the tale of a family desperately trying to put itself back together after WWII. Silvana and Janusz have only been married a few months when the war forces them apart. Silvana and their infant son, Aurek, leave Poland and disappear into the forests of Eastern Europe, where they bear witness to German atrocities. Meanwhile Janusz, the sole survivor of his slaughtered military unit, flees to France. There, he takes up with a local girl and, though he loves her, awaits the war's end so that he can go in search of his wife and son. He eventually finds them in a refugee camp and they travel to England together, where they attempt to put the past behind them. But the secrets they carry pull at the threads of their fragile peace. Hodgkinson alternates viewpoints to relay the story of three desperate characters, skillfully toggling between the war and its aftermath with wonderfully descriptive prose that pulls the reader into a sweeping tale of survival and redemption.

Amanda Hodgkinson has just released Spilt Milk 

1913. Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their life is quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood throws up a strange fish on their doorstep and a travelling man who will change them forever.
1939. Eighteen year old Birdie Farr is working as a barmaid in the family pub in London. When she realises she is pregnant she turns to her mother Nellie, who asks her sister to arrange an adoption for Birdie's new born daughter. 
But as the years pass Birdie discovers she cannot escape the Marsh sisters' shadowy past - and her own troubling obsession with finding her lost daughter will have deep consequences for all of them...
A nice addition to our monthly book ? If you have the time. We are very much looking forward to have this meeting with the author herself. 


For more information about any of the above or our next meeting and venue, please contact:
Ladieslunchclub secretary:
lunchclubgascogne(at)gmail.com

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May 2014 Ladies Luncheon in Termes d'Armagnac - invitation to our members

The May 2014 Ladies Luncheon will be held on 

Tuesday 13th May at the Foyer 
 Termes d'Armagnac

at 12.30 for 1.00 pm

Directions click here

Dear Members,

In the hope that the sun just might reappear, this month we have decided on a "Hog Roast". (The caterer is : bulldog bacon & bangers)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, it is a whole Roast Pork "au Lait", which will be served with a variety of salads. 

There will of course be a fish option for vegetarians.

Also this month, to give everyone the opportunity to meet and talk to new people, we would like to try a new seating plan:  

On arrival, when paying your lunch money, you will be given a table number.  If however you are bringing a guest you will, of course, be able to sit together..

MENU

17€ (wine and coffee included)

Red Onion Tart

Whole Roast Pork au lait with apple sauce, stuffing and crackling

Selection of salads and dressings

Chocolate Gateau

Please make your reservation on the booking form (attached to the email for members) and submit by noon on Friday 9th May.

If you are bringing a guest please use the same form to book them in. 

Again to speed up the collection of lunch money, would you please have this ready in an envelope with your name on, or alternatively you can pay by cheque on the name of the caterer (our treasurer at the desk will give you the proper name of the caterer).

Should you have any difficulty in booking for the lunch, please contact Jane Cooper, Secretary on lunchclubgascogne(at)gmail.com 

before NOON on 4th April.

We look forward to seeing you all for a good summer lunch.

If you have any used postage stamps, please bring them along, for charity.  

Foreign stamps have a greater value, but any are accepted.

Please see our diary/calendar update for May 2014 here 

Charity Event for Cancer Support France

The Charity's are for Cancer Support France (and other NGO's) 
will be on 

17th May from 11.00 am onwards. 

The Venue is at A Montagne- Chemin De Montage - Couloumé Mondebat. 32160.

The entry is free!!

There will be live music through out the day, a variety of stalls/stands. 
Psychic Counselor for Reiki Healing & Tarot. Jewelry, Women's Clothing, Books, Cakes, Jam's, Wine, Greetings Cards, Oils, Plants & hopefully much more. We will have fun stalls for adults & children. Face Painting, Table Tennis, Petanque, Tug Of War, & much more.

There will be a raffle and an Auction. So far for Auction: 
Fabulous painting from local Artist, Jim & Rob for a day's work 
2 x meals for 2 in local restaurants 
A stair of Fire Wood , Cases of Wine & 'hopefully' more to follow.

For food:  Paella, Salad, Chips, Burgers & Hot Dogs. Soft Drinks, Wine & possibly Beer.

The organizers would be grateful to anyone who would like to be part of this event, in helping & or setting up their own stalls (free of charge) to sell & promote their own products, be it vegetables, Jams, Arts & Crafts etc. 

So long as they are prepared to donate a 'generous' percentage of their profit to the Charities. 
The organizers would also be grateful for donations of Raffle & Auction prizes.
This event is organized by members of the LLC.

For any more informations please  
contact ONLY:  06 877 898 70

Le Salon des métiers d'art 2014 in Plaisance 16 - 18 May 2014

We would like to inform you of the art and craft exhibition in Plaisance on 16-18th May 2014:

Le Salon des métiers d'art 2014 aura lieu du 16 au 18 mai à la salle polyvalente de Plaisance

For more information please contact:

Le recrutement des artisans d'art créateurs pour le salon 2014 est en cours contactez nous au

06 70 60 06 20 ou par mail:mjo.chauvin@orange.fr

Book choice April 2014

The book for April is on Thursday 17th April 2014, 2.30 at the usual venue reading

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon MacGregor.




Erica Wagner in The Times, was the first published review: 

“McGregor takes his time. This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose. Its opening, an invocation of the life of the city, is strongly reminiscent of Auden’s Night Mail in its hypnotic portrait of industrialised society: here are ‘Sung sirens, sliding through the streets, streaking blue light from distress to distress, the slow wail weaving urgency through the darkest of the dark hours..’ The writing in the rest of the novel moves from moment to moment in a way that recalls To The Lighthouse or Mrs Dalloway: it charts with confidence and subtlety the slight shifts of emotion that can change relationships with seismic force… 
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is a dream of a novel. It has the slow-motion hyperclarity of the images that fill our heads in sleep; its liquid prose is precise enough to draw time nearly to a stop, to stretch out moments and describe the spaces between them. It is a novel that is “about” hardly anything at all, and in this very modesty its ambition is revealed.”

We had a very pleasant book club meeting on March 20th, 2014 sitting out in the warm sunshine discussing 
The 100 year old man by Jonas Jonasson

   

Everyone enjoyed this book for its amusing, sometimes incredible tales and life experiences of Alan, the 100 yr old man.   A couple of people, who weren’t so enamoured with it at first, persevered and ended up enjoying the book.   
It was clever how one meeting seemed to lead on to yet another incredible meeting often giving a good insight into some of the leaders of the 20th century. 
And it had a happy ending which seems hard to find nowadays!

The book for May 2014 is on Thursday 15th May, same time and place:

22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson 
when she will be joining us!

The June 2014 book was chosen from Viv’s selection of Dutch authors:  
It’s The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs and the meeting is on Thursday June 19th

 

The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant children-three identical boys all sharing a disturbing disfigurement. He keeps them hidden away until Charlotte, the woman who is hired to care for them, begins to suspect that the triplets-and the good doctor- aren't quite what they seem. As the villagers become increasingly suspicious, the story of Dr. Hoppe's past begins to unfold, and the shocking secrets that he has been keeping are revealed. A chilling story that explores the ethical limits of science and religion, 
The Angel Maker is a haunting tale in the tradition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein. Brought to life by internationally bestselling author Stefan Brijs, this eerie tale promises to get under readers' skin.

For any more information please check our bookclub page on this blog.

Dates for your Diary APRIL 2014

Ladies Lunch Club  - 

Dates for your Diary 

April 2014:

Tuesday 1st April:	The Grand Budapest Hotel, film in VO at Nogaro Cinema
Sunday 6th April:	August – Osage County, film in VO at Nogaro Cinema, 8.30pm
Tuesday 8th April:	Ladies Lunch at The Commerce in Nogaro
Saturday 12th April:	BLOOPS clothes sale at Marciac, contact Gaye Piper 05 62 70 81 38
Sunday 13th April:	Gersabelles Singing Concert at l’eglise deTillac, 5pm, free entrance
Sunday 13th April:	Vide Grenier & Flower Market at Laujuzan
Sat & Sun 19th & 20th:	Exhibition of Minerals & Fossils, The Foyer at Reans
Sunday 20th April:	Arts, Crafts & Bio plants & products The Foyer, Reans, Sale, 10am-7pm,
Sunday 20th April:	Flower Show/Sale at Gondrin
Monday 21st April:	Vide Grenier & Flower Market at Castelnau d’Auzan
Sat & Sun 26th & 27th:	Flower Market at Fources

Here is a link for Vide Greniers : http://brocabrac.fr/index.php?dept=32
Details correct at time of publishing this list