Club cheered by classic Christmas tale

For our December meeting the Earl of Essex read us the classic P.G. Wodehouse short story "Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit" (perhaps inspired by the Jeeves and Wooster theme of last year's Christmas party). The story, first published in the Strand magazine in 1927, starts with Bertie cancelling previous plans to spend Christmas in Monte Carlo partly because he is in love with Roberta Wickham. Jeeves disapproves of both of these facts and, needless to say, manages to engineer matters back round to a state more to his liking, due in part Bertie's attempt to play a practical joke on Tuppy Glossop—an enterprise that has unexpected consequences…

You can see a video of Essex's talk at https://youtu.be/DkrrJx4dhnQ. You can see more photos from the evening at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sheridanclub/albums/72177720322383025.

Luigi Sbaffi makes an announcement, offering Club Members old prices on his family's sparkling wine, even after the official prices go up shortly