We were all very excited to have our first Club Night after the summer break in the revamped Hall. The overall effect is brighter, and everyone commented on how nice the new floor and paintwork looked.
We admired the new and refurbished rooms, and particularly the new kitchen, which has a large hatch connecting to the hall to allow tea and coffee made in the kitchen to be passed through easily.
Here is view looking out from the new kitchen into the Hall.
Here we can see the new hatch into the kitchen, with a podium space to the right.
We are very grateful to Wesley Memorial Church, and everyone who has contributed to the Open Doors project for the exciting possibilities.
As it was our first time together after the summer we heard about what people had been doing, and discussed what we would like to do in the Autumn programme.
Category: Wesley Memorial
Events which take place at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
Wesley Memorial Church Garden Party in aid of Phab
After some rather mixed weather over the past month the sun shone on the Wesley Memorial Church annual garden party, with proceeds donated to Oxford Phab.
Members of the church, and of Oxford Phab swum and played games, and ate delicious cakes and scones, and drank many cups of tea and coffee. A beautiful summer day, and we are very grateful to our hosts, and to those who baked cakes, and helped with serving.
Tom's Quiz
As well as a normal club night Tom had prepared a quiz. There was a Wordsearch, for everyone to do individually.
Then we divided up into teams, one on the south side of the room and two on the north.
There was a picture themed section on identifying television programmes,
The programmes were from a range of eras, and covered a range of interests.
There was also a general knowledge quiz, and a musical section where we were asked to identify films or television programmes from their theme tunes.
We enjoyed the evening, and many thanks to Tom for the work he put in to prepare the quiz.
Mexican Evening
We had delicious Tacos, and beef and vegetarian chilli, with rice, and tortilla chips.
Chicken Fajita, in a corn tortilla.
Some of us had the various combinations of chilli and tacos – there were plenty of tasty choices.
Film Night – The Town That Sang – with Pizza
We ate pizza, and were then treated to a showing of The Town That Sang, a short musical film. Jack, who is a member of Wesley Memorial Church, wrote the music for the film – and gave us a short talk about it and answered our questions.
The film was funded by a Kickstarter campaign and some of the funders are also Phab members, who had seen it already, but were quite happy to see it again.
Zumba
Zumba with George Martini !
George getting set up for another exercising evening, suitable for all abilities and levels of fitness !
Serving Refreshments
We were serving tea, coffee, filled rolls, home made soups as well as home baked cakes and biscuits in aid of Phab and Open Doors
Behind the scenes in the kitchen
Front of house.
Easter Bingo
We play for chocolates ! Members bring some eggs, or chocolate bunnies or other treats and we redistribute them through the evening.
Our caller, with our fancy Bingo machine.
Two full cards – once we have played a few games we tend to carry on until everyone has won a prize.
Happy winners with plenty of chocolate to take home !
Quiz Night
Robin had created a very well organised quiz, which we did in teams – as well as drinking tea or coffee and eating biscuits.
We had a Disney Princess based word search, as well as anagrams, and a chance to show our knowledge (or lack of), of the titles of Carry On films.
One of the other teams hard at work !
Pancakes !
Cooking pancakes in the Wesley Memorial kitchen.
Production line!
We built up to two pancake makers and someone putting them in the oven to keep warm.
Then it was time to eat !
we had a good selection of fillings –
bananas and cream,
bananas and chocolate sauce, as well as sugar and lemon juice, or Golden Syrup.
we even had a Birthday pancake !