Fellowship meeting

Today we met at the café in the Ingatestone Saddlery for the second time. It is not far from our regular venue, the Ivy Hill Hotel; we normally choose somewhere else for our Fellowship Meetings.

We had a long table in the side room known as The Snug. The photograph shows one of the pictures hanging on the Snug’s wall. We had a good number of members plus a couple of guests.

We ordered at the Café’s counter before taking our seats. The food was brought two orders as a time. The delay between the various orders appearing didn’t cause us any real problems; we urged everyone to eat their food as it appeared. There was no formal agenda but President Graham, back from his recent hip replacement, did go through a few formal points at the end. We were given a table in The Snug on condition that there were no speeches, so he kept what he said short and quiet.

The café is at the back of the Saddlery, which someone described as a department store for things equestrian. As we saw on the way through, that was not a bad description.