World Book Day is a charity sponsored by National Book Tokens which when our Lunch Club leader Rachel Beedle first heard about quickly realised it was far too good an opportunity to pass by.
That’s why this last week, dressed as characters from their favourite novels more than fifteen LC regulars appeared ever so thinly disguised as just about anyone and anything from Long John Silver to James Bond.
Besides enjoying their normal splendid lunch our guests also tested their powers of recall with a brilliant book/author quiz and then spent a quarter of an hour or so swopping and sharing memories of books they had brought from their homes.
As luck would have it this week was also the first anniversary of Rachel taking over the Lunch Club supervisory role which of course gave everyone a chance to sing Happy Birthday but only this time with with 007 Hornby at the piano the word Birthday was replaced by the word Anniversary.