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THE BCA AGM WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY 17th FEBRUARY AT OPON, 18.00.
We will send out the invitations, with paying-in slips for 2012 membership fee
in January. Our first Committee Meeting of 2012 is on Wednesday 18th January.
Annual Membership fee for 2012
for singles will be 200 SEK and for couples will be 300 SEK.
The BCA Committee 2012-2013: Volunteers needed!
Please remember that we will be needing some new candidates for the Committee,
as both your Chairman and Treasurer will be standing down.
So PLEASE nominate new candidates as soon as possible! Contact Erik Durrant.
Do you have any friends who would like to join the BCA? We have new attractive visiting cards, which are being distributed at our various events. We hope we will find these a useful means of recruiting new members to the BCA, so please hand them to prospective members. We sometimes bump into ex-pats who are unaware of the BCA's existence and the card might be a good way of reaching them and providing information about our organisation.
Please make sure you enrol for our events in good time in order to enable us to cater efficiently. We must respect the number of people that OPON can hold.
Good news for BCA members who would like to shop from the John Lewis Partnership. They have just started marketing their goods on line and are keen to attract customers in Sweden. Check them out at www.johnlewis.com.
Erik Durrant´s CHRISTMAS PUDDING RECIPE:
Preparation time 30 min, cooking time 6hr
175 g raisins, 400 g currants + sultanas (or raisins + chopped dates and/or other dried fruit), 25g chopped candied peel, 125g butter, 225g soft brown sugar, 125g white breadcrumbs, 50g chopped nuts (optional), 1 apple cored and grated, grated zest of 1 orange, 50g white flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp mixed spice, pinch of ground cloves, pinch of ground cinnamon, 150 ml stout or beer (up to half this quantity can be replaced by brandy), 2 large eggs.
Mix all the dry ingredients together, add melted butter, liquid + eggs and fold in thoroughly. Stir well. Pour into a well greased pudding basin and cover with greaseproof paper and foil. Tie these firmly and use the string to haul the basin out of the saucepan when you need to check the water level. Boil/steam in a large saucepan for 6 hours, checking the water level regularly and adding boiling water as necessary.
GOOD LUCK!
The Committee intends to contact the majority of members through this site. We also plan to send out 2/3 Newsletters a year, to those members without computers, so that they can also receive information. Our Committee is too small in number for us to be able to handle the work involved in mailing printed copies of our Newsletter to all our members. If anyone feels that they would like to join us on the Committee to take care of this task, they would be most welcome to join us!
The e-mail addresses given on the BCA website appear rather strange (AT instead of @, for example) but this is to stop various automatic programmes from snapping up the published addresses and sabotaging them!
The Wednesday morning coffee sessions for caffeine addicts and conversationalists, previously known under the title "The Krakow Club", continue every Wednesday at 10.45 onwards at Sturekonditoriet, located on the corner of Sturegatan and Karlavägen. If you would like to have further information, please contact, Erik Durrant, at 08-623 12 72 or 0766-286 832
The Afternoon Tea session (Vendela's) for the cake lovers among us, on the last Tuesday of every month will start again at the end of JANUARY 2012 at the City Konditori. PLEASE join us if you have the time! (Read more information under Sections.)
We should like to draw all British citizens' attention to the fact that the British Embassy in Stockholm has an excellent website, full of information for new arrivals as well as long-time residents. You will find it at www.ukinsweden.fco.gov.uk .
In order to receive the Embassy's regular and informative newsletter, you can register for it by e-mailing
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and requesting that you be added to their mailing list. You will find many interesting articles written by our Ambassador, in addition to other items of general interest.
Erik Durrant, Chairman, BCA
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