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2016 Burns Night

This year the evening got off to a fine start thanks to Carys from Gordon’s School in Woking. Thank you Carys!

This year Stuart, Alison and Andrew Gibb performed a family address to the haggis in Scottish English and Spanish.

Great entertainment!

Once again the haggis was excellent this year as was the dancing that followed

Many thanks to the Hogs Back Band for keeping us moving this year with some great music and sympathetic calling

2016 Pancake Races

The Helpers

This event would just not be possible if it were not for the volunteers that help each year – thank you to all those who helped bring this event to the town once more and well done to the pancake team (Anne Milton, Dylan White and Alison Gibb) who raised over £260 in donations for their delicious Pancakes.

PG, thank you for another classic.

In all we need more than 30 volunteers to run this event each year – if you would like to help in 2017, don’t wait, get in touch now – 01483 598420

2016 Pancake Race Sponsors

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28th February 2016 Meet & Eat

George Orwell’s son Richard Blair came to the Spike and gave a talk on life with his father on the Isle of Jura where 1984 was written. The talk was followed by a three course lunch and the chance to ask Richard questions about his life and what it means to be the son of such an iconic author.

When Richard first came to visit the Spike he was very taken by the story it has to tell. His father also found life in the Casual Ward fascinating and worth including both in essays and in Down and Out in Paris and London.

Eric Blair, an authoritative advocate of socialism, under the pen name of Orwell, wrote volumes for the ‘common man’, witnessing the growing gulf between the classes. He experienced the true life of a tramp by purposefully living as one, staying in spikes in London and the Home Counties.

His essay “The Spike” (leading to the memoir “Down and out in Paris and London”) gives leniency to the underclasses poignantly noting the brevity of the journey from wealth to rags.