Events: March, 2021

Here is a round-up of the events from The Swan during March, 2021. This was during Lockdown Three, 19/12/20 to 11/04/21.

3rd Mar: Online Bingo

Another exciting evening of Bingo saw Trudy Lowe sweep the board with a hattrick of wins. Success also for Paul Drake (a worthy first time winner), Syd Allen and Anne Tebbatt.

6th Mar: Horse Racing Night

An excellent evening of horse racing with themed beers to match! The 'Clewer Gold Cup' was a noisy event as our 'punters' cheered on their horses. More pictures can be found on our Race Night page.

We organised an evening of horse racing and beer tasting on a Saturday evening, something different to Ant & Dec and the likes. We had six races from around the UK, with beers matched to the chosen race courses. On the night, Richard Allen compered and Will Calvert took us through the beers.

Many were appropriately dressed for a night at the races.

Six different beer styles from Pilsner Lager, Golden Ale, English and US style IPAs and Old Ale to finish with a Barley Wine – all brewed close to featured racecourses. The beer list was:

• Windsor: W&E Windsor Farm Shop Craft Lager 330ml bottle;
• Newmarket: Oakham Citra Golden Ale 500 ml bottle (the most popular);
• Wincanton: Hall & Woodhouse Twice Tangled IPA 500ml;
• Hamilton: Drygate Disco Forklift Mango IPA 330ml can;
• Thirsk: Theakston Old Peculier 500ml bottle;
• Wolverhampton: Banks' Barley Gold Barley Wine 330ml can.

During the evening we had a 'who has the best bottle opener moment' which Willie would claim he won (openers are available from The Brewery allegedly). However we had a range of openers from cricket bat shaped, to Scottish designs, to items that looked more for torture than anything else!

Over a three(ish) hour period we went through six different races and beer combinations. Everyone stayed with us for the whole evening - thanks. And we received nearly £375 in donations.

Unfortunately it wasn't practical to take screenshots of everyone, so you might see yourself below.

Towards the end of the evening, the beer did start to take affect. The Old MacDonald's Stakes had the crowd cheering on their horse. Unfortunately they were called 'Oink Oink', 'Woof Woof', 'Meow Meow' and the likes. Everyone got into the spirit. Nothing to do with the various beers of course!

Our winners on the night were 'Two from 2' aka The Lavers. They had the most points on the night but were closely followed by our joint second place punters: Pink Ice, Red Rum and The Winches. Congratulations to all on the horse racing prowess.

10th Mar: Online Quiz

Thanks to Rachel of The Friends and also the Windsor Homeless Project for setting a quiz that didn't mention Harry &Meghan once. Thanks to all who made donations on the night to The Project, appreciated.

Well done to the winners:

• Individual - Johnny No Mates
• Household - Oh Dear
• Team - The WilliWests

17th Mar: Online Bingo

A Paddy's Day spectacular where the attire and banter was more important than the bingo. Only joking!. Who could forget our caller's fantastic Irish accent?

Winners on the night were:

• Game 1, line: Paul Drake
• Game 1, house: Debbie Hodkin & Cath Scott
• Game 2, line: Martin Payne
• Game 2, house: Debbie Hodkin
• Game 3, line: Shiela Allen
• Game 3, house: Martyn Payne

24th Mar: Online Quiz

With grateful thanks to the Scott & Bailey quiz masters the final on-line quiz saw a competitive evening with Easter Eggs to play for. Congratulations to our winners:

• Team - Muddy Boots;
• Household - SMike;
• Individual - Anne Tebbatt.

31st: Online Bingo

The final online bingo saw the fun continue to the very last number. Richard Allen, again in the hot seat, checked his records and confirmed that the first winner on the night, Rene Lowe, was our first winner in our first online game.

Lightning did strike twice as Louise Winch claimed a full house win in both the first and last online games. Congratulations to our other winners on the night; Bas Williams, Debbie Hodkin, Tony Cross, Daniel Drake and Jayne Hosmer.