Newest member of the Handlebar Club extended family
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Member Glen Turner has sent us a delightful family photo. He said:
“My wife Jane gave birth on Tuesday 28th Feb at about 11pm-ish, after a sudden, unplanned and impromptu home birth, to a baby boy, 6lb 2oz, who we've named Frederick (he was 6 days early)”.
Jane was fantastic and both she and Fred are home and doing fine. I can't claim any midwife credit, Jane deserves all the acclaim. Eliza slept through it all.”
Eliza is their first child who attended the AGM in York last year aged about 1.
Steve Parsons
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Globe-trotting Handlebar Club Member, pop-up barber extraordinaire and most personable gentleman Matt Raine a.k.a Mr. Natty offers a range of personal hair products "for your hirsute face", of interest to the Moustached-Gentleman-about-Town-and-Country.
Club Member stars in music video
Member Mike “Mr Pickle” Stocks has released a music video for one of his songs on YouTube. Mr Pickle says:
Not to be missed! Watch it in Full-screen HD if you can...
From The Forum
“The Very Best”
The Movember charity's 2012 Moustache Calendar
HORSING AROUND: Michael “Atters” Attree, Club member, satirist, writer and performer was photographed in Bathurst Mews near Hyde Park for Ricky Chapman’s “The Very Best”, a 2012 calendar also featuring musician/artist Billy Childish, sporting personalities and other photos of men with moustaches.
Atters
Another Handlebaby
Handlebar Club member Mick and his partner Vikki also delighted Club members, friends and wives at the AGM with their bouncing bundle of joy, young Jackson. We wonder if Jackson and Fred (far left) will be meeting on a First Friday in the Windsor Castle Astro-Pub in 20 years time?
'Arrers Away in August
The Charity Darts Match
Alan "Rocky" Rockliffe, member of both The Handlebar Club and of the Pipe Club of London has arranged the Annual Charity Darts Match this year back at Thatcher's Arms, Warley Street, Great Warley, Brentwood, Essex, on Saturday morning of 18th August 2012. The throwing starts around 11:30 - 12.00pm, and as usual there will be a raffle in aid of CDLF, Children's Liver Disease Foundation.
Do you Sarah, take this Handlebar?
She did indeed. Sarah and Club member and WBMC 2007 1st-place winner Paul were married in early December. Sarah says:
The Club Christmas Lunch - Jolly Christmassy with turkey and all that
Dear Old Atters arranged this year’s Christmas lunch at the delightful Shelley’s Hotel in Lewes, East Sussex. He was one of the last to arrive accompanied by the lovely Louise, squeezing into the hotel’s bijou bar, where serious inroads into the Harvey’s bitter, which was in tip-top condition, had already been made.
There was a delightfully varied crowd present this year, and the grub was jolly Christmassy, with turkey and all that. In a thrilling new festive development Steve announced that...
The Handlebar Club’s Got Talent
The Handlebar Club were proudly represented on primetime television programme Britain’s Got Talent recently, when member Conrad Amis featured among a montage of some of Britain’s more colourful constituents. Filmed at Handlebar headquarters the Windsor Castle pub in London, the intrepid chap was grilled with all sorts of questions about Britain, talent and whether Britain’s got talent, until our man began to realise a theme was developing.
The episode was shown on Saturday 14th April (rather inconsiderately in the middle of our AGM dinner on “The Island”) but don’t despair if you missed it as it will be available on ITV Player for UK-based viewers until 13th May. He features from 2 mins 20 but don’t blink or you’ll miss him...
Club Members: book now for the April AGM on the Isle of Wight
The Club's annual AGM weekend is to be held at Yelf’s Hotel, Ryde, Isle of Wight on the weekend of Friday 13th and Saturday 14th of April 2012. Yelf's hotel is one of the oldest original coaching inns on the Isle of Wight, and is within a five minute walk of Ryde Pier Head where the Catamaran from Portsmouth and the Hovercraft from Southsea arrive.
The accommodation rate includes a full English breakfast and there will also be a number of organised tours and events on Saturday. The event booking form for the 2012 AGM weekend can be found in the Members Lounge, and members are asked to make their room and dinner bookings by 28th February.
Members lend whiskery support to Mo-growing volunteers - update!
On Thursday 20th October, Steve Parsons and Rod Littlewood attended the official launch of Movember in Shoreditch.
“We were particularly impressed with the Spitfire Bitter bottles sporting special labels with a handlebar - completely in keeping with our own image let alone Movember.”
Raising the bar for Movember!
First Friday in November and some familiar Handlebar Club members were whiskered away from propping up the bar at the Windsor Castle pub in Crawford St., Marylebone, London to pose for the camera of... well, if you're a Times subscriber, you can read the original article here.
Graspable Extremities of 2011
Remember Movember 2011? What happened about Harriet's Marathon bid? What about the 13-year-old member? Where in the world were Jonathan, Andy and Tom? Read all about what we did in 2011 here.