Dinner at the City Pickwick Club
25th November 2024George & Vulture
Past Master Charles Miller was kind enough to invite me to dinner with the City Pickwick Club, of which he is a member. The dinner is always held at the George & Vulture pub, which is mentioned many times in Charles Dickens' novel, The Pickwick Papers, and always consists of the same menu: The President's Special (smoked salmon with capers and brown bread and butter), Pickwick Fare (steak pie), Jingle's Delight (fresh fruit salad), and Solomon's Wisdom (cheese and biscuits). Much wine and port was also drunk!
Also joining us was Past Master Adam Bennett, also a member, along with many other Liverymen, making it a most entertaining gathering!
The dinner party was entertained by a learned discourse on something relevant to the Pickwick Papers, in this case by Frankie Kubicki, who proposed the toast to the Immortal Memory of Charles Dickens.
All of us guests were also kindly given a copy of The Pickwick papers, which I shall endeavour to read properly once my year as Master is finished!
Thank you, Charler, for a very fine evening, in the great tradition of eccentric City gatherings!