In this bulletin;
watch out, the hippies are coming - folk club returns
t'committee meeting minutes - see what all the secrecy is about
kitchen refurbishment - faggots chips and peas and gravy and a bit of football
members night 2010 - get your money's worth
subscriptions & new members - get handed your cards by Trevor
new wine list - best prices in earlsdon?
free & easy - "plan A" reinstated again
there's no such thing as a free lunch - er, there is apparently......
earlsdon pubwatch - my name is Michael Paine, and I am a nosey neighbour
on-line payments - you mean I can pay for drinks by credit card? Surely not....
new lounge - now for hire
more tea vicar? - popular earlsdon club reverts to its original use. Large portions too
real ale - Oak, Cottage & Millsy's watch out! Not as cheap as The Arms but close.... and Chav free
It's that time of year again when you must renew your subs and we'll be welcoming new members into the Club from 1st February. Existing members can renew their subs right now. Failure to renew now incurrs a £1 per month fine and our strict door policy means that you will need to be signed in AND pay a £2 visitors fee every time! Remember, membership is only £6.00 a year and you really do reap the benefits. Members Night with half price drinks is worth the years subscriptions alone!
After 1 years great response to our new range of wines, we've streamlined our stocks to reflect your most popular tipples and we're also now selling all stocks by the glass. We've also introduced a couple of great new lines for the summer. Following the recent Budget and Brewery increases our wines are now the most competitive in the area, so buy a bottle and settle down in the fully air conditioned interior or sit out in the sun in our fabulous garden or front patio.
I'd had an idea to have a wants and for sale board on the website, but when I looked into doing it, the time and moderation aspects of the venture made it a no-go. It would have worked on the forum but that's sadly under-used for some reason. I have since discovered the Coventry Freegle Group - it's like Ebay but everything is being given away and in the CV postcode catchment area. You can have a look at it here;
Sign up with your own yahoo email address and you get emails every day from people just giving stuff away - Televisions, computers, beds, furniture, garden sheds, clothes, bicycles - in fact anything you can think of within reason, all with the intention of recycling rather than sending stuff to the tip. There's also the facility to request things that you want - go on you know it makes sense!
Oh and as the name suggests, it's FREE
Many people travel great distances to see some of the acts we put on. This will be really convenient for folks like them, but this facility will also mean that members can now pay for their Christmas & New Years Eve tickets, and even pay their yearly subscription on line and spread the cost!
If you give us your email address we can even send you a reminder! At last, an end to those queues in the foyer on Friday nights and Sunday lunchtimes...
FOLLOWING A PERIOD OF INTENSIVE WORK, THE LOUNGE REOPENED ON FRIDAY 29TH AUGUST. YOU WON'T BELIEVE THE TRANSFORMATION - EVERYTHING IS BRAND NEW FROM THE GREAT NEW BAR BY AWARD WINNING CRAFTSMEN "EASE & CO" TO THE LATEST IN STATE OF THE ART LIGHTING, A FANTASTIC NEW TILED FLOOR, TO A VARIETY OF MODERN STYLISH SEATING TO SUIT EVERYONE.
WE'VE ALSO GOT A STATE OF THE ART COMPUTERISED MP3 JUKEBOX AND CEILING MOUNTED SPEAKERS THAT WILL JUST BLOW YOU AWAY.
THIS ROOM IS NOW FOR HIRE FOR PRIVATE FUNCTIONS AT VERY REASONABLE RATES FROM MONDAY TO FRIDAY. CONTACT US FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
AFTER ONLY A FEW WEEKS VISITORS ARE BECOMING NEW MEMBERS AND ARE SIGNING UP EVERY DAY!
YOU CAN SEE A SLIDESHOW OF GREAT PICTURES BY LUCY CHICK HERE
On a personal note - Nice to see we've at last got shut of the dinosaur and pain in the backside that was the children's room, and that eventually, common sense DOES prevail. This also means that parents are now responsible for, AND MUST ACCOMPANY their children while in all areas of the club AT ALL TIMES as part of health and safety regulations.
Now I like/dislike children as much as the next punter, but what I can't stand is our club being used as a free creche/adventure playground/football pitch/assault course........
Brand new for the Club is a range of non-alcoholic beverages - Coffee in lots of trendy popular varieties, Freetrade Tea and Hot Chocolate in extremely generous servings. All our coffees are Lavazza which is Italy's most popular brand, freshly made to order and ideal for a mid-morning pick-me-up or a relaxing lunch hour on the new patio or in the garden with a sandwich.
What goes around comes around as they say, and so isn't it the case in point here that the Club's first use - as a coffee lounge - when it first opened is back on the agenda all these years later!
*ESPRESSO £1.50 a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing very hot water under high pressure through coffee that has been ground to a consistency between extremely fine and powder.
*CAPPUCCINO £1.50 an Italian coffee-based drink prepared with espresso, hot milk, and milk foam. The foam on top of the cappuccino acts as an insulator and helps retain the heat of the liquid, allowing it to stay hotter longer.
*CAFE LATTE £1.50 The long Italian form literally means "coffee and milk", similar to the French café au lait and the Spanish café con leche.
*MOCHACCINO £1.50 is a variant of a cafe latte. Like a latte it is typically one third espresso and two thirds steamed milk, but a portion of chocolate is added, typically in the form of a chocolate syrup or instant chocolate powder.
*AMERICANO £1.10/1.50 a single or double-shot of espresso combined with hot water
*TEA £1.00 A nice cup of Cha made just the way you like it. All our teas are from FairTrade sources.
*HOT CHOCOLATE £1.50 Luxurious FairTrade Hot Chocolate
Did we say GENEROUS? Our cups are more than TWICE the size of those in M*llsy's and W**thersp**ns!!!
Real Ale is now on sale at a very reasonable £2.40 a pint. Our guest ale is Greene King's "Abbot" Ale. Real Ale is now the official tipple of yours truly when I'm in the club and you really should buy me a pint if I'm awake next time you see me!
My real ale friends have informed the CAMRA chappies who are set to decend upon the place in their thousands......... We actually got a mention in their magazine the other month!
Oh, and by the way, has anyone noticed over at the Arms the barstaff no longer say "enjoy your drink" when serving you but rather "drink responsibly?" If we all drank responsibly Tim Martin would be out of bloody business tomorrow.......
