Senior Guests' Summer Party

We held our Summer Pary for Senior Guests on Saturday, 26 July 2025. As usual, it was held at the Chapter House.

It also followed the usual format:

• A non-alcoholic “cocktail” for each guest on arrival.
• Afternoon tea served at the tables by some of our members.
• Musical entertainment while people were eating.
• An interval with a quiz.
• Cake and tea/coffee with a musical accompaniment.

As has become traditional, the musical accompaaiment was songs the guests would have known, sung by Steve Moriaty, the husband of PDG and 1st Vice President Anne Moriaty. He is usually joined by their daughter, Pippa, but unfortunately she had to call off earlier in the morning.

Francis Whitbread was the quizmaster. Each table formed a team. There were twenty questions. Two tables tied with a very creditable score of 18 correct answers. Francis gave them a tiebreaker, “HOw long, in miles, is the Great Wall of China?” The two tables gave answers of 450 and 550. The team giving that second answer won because they were nearer the true figure of over 5,000.

W good time was had by all. Each guest was sent home with a goody bag.

Our thanks to all the Rotarians who gave guests lifts from home and back again or helped with the party in other ways. Our thanks, too, to Steve for once again singing for us and to the Cathedral and their Vergers for facilitating our use of the Chapter House.