The last two years have certainly been disrupted, but as a club we have still managed to have eight successful lunch meetings with a wide range of speakers in 2021.

We are looking forward in the New Year to welcoming new members. You may well be retired, live in the north of the island, including Laxey and Kirk Michael.

This could be just the club to fit nicely into your monthly programme.

For more than 30 years, our club has been offering a convivial meeting place for men with a professional and/or business background.

Additionally, wives and partners are especially welcomed at twice-yearly luncheons - June and December - and to all the outside visits.

At our two most recent meetings with speakers, October and November, each covered a future event significant for us all.

Purely in date order, the first involved something quite local - the potential Ramsey marina.

The second,the forecast results of climate change on the island and potential solutions, is clearly of global importance but, from the content of the talk, of major direct importance to the island, here and now.

Unsurprisingly, each generated a lively discussion with predictably differing opinions. We then enjoyed our ever popular Christmas lunch in December at the Grosvenor Hotel in Andreas, our regular meeting place.

Our full programme for 2022 is already in place.

Our January meeting takes us quite literally out of this world!

Howard Parkin, the Island’s Mr Astronomer, will be talking about exploring Mars, the red planet, followed in February by Peter Corrin, Master Mariner, with very strong links to the Ramsey Steamship Comapny.

In March, we will have the special pleasure of welcoming our new Lieutenant Governor, Sir John Lorrimer.

His extensive career in the army promises a wide range of campaign events and stories and the year’s programme continues with a wide range of subjects and speakers, women as well as men, to stimulate our interests, satisfy our curiosity and often amuse us.

In addition to our lunches, currently we have three planned outside visits, the first for two years.

They will span spring through to autumn, with a visit to a highly automated dairy farm, a special guided tour of the Second World War Prisoner of War museum and grounds at Knockaloe, and finally a ride down memory lane at the Jurby Transport Museum, which has been highly recommended to us. We will seek out a source of optional refreshments after every event if we can.

New members are always welcome so come and try us out.

A current member will personally host your first visit and you may then decide to join permanently.

Email our club coordinator at [email protected] for an application form and more details if you need them.

We look forward to seeing you in 2022.