Lovely Rokhsana Fiaz OBE reminds us that the City Police, as lead financial crime investigator, is taking on Hajj fraud: cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/Adv…

Our dinner in the House of Lords with Sir Thomas Harris, KBE, CMG. Please do come! 18 October, details on Facebook: facebook.com/events/1544522…

A handful of us are popping off to the polo Saturday-do please join us, if you like! Just don't touch the lasagne: facebook.com/events/1470393…

Very happy wedding anniversary to our Chaplain and Rosemary! 40th anniversary cake baked as something of a surprise:

Dinner in the Athenaeum with leading libel silk Desmond Browne QC, who will talk to us about the Defamation Act 2013-facebook.com/events/2135477…

Congrats, our Rev'd George Pitcher, licensed today with the cure of souls in Waldron w Cross-in-Hand, Sussex: a minibus goes down to cheer!

Handy daily trivium: 'curacy' is the root of the word 'sinecure', a paid post which comes *without* its (curatorial) responsibilities….

St Bride's Magazine, September edition fresh off the press - read all about(/of) it! bit.ly/18mcpVl

READ ALL ABOUT IT: The YS Report for Autumn 2013. With tawdry details of all our misbehaviour.

Halfway to our fundraising goal! With the Gift Aid in, we're at £1763, halfway to £3500. So v grateful, all of you :) justgiving.com/RunPaddy

Our annual patronal service, with Shami Chakrabarti from Liberty, at St Katharine Cree, 1.05 pm on the 17th October, free, nibbles after!

Our Olsen Lecture, 5th November, will be given by the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge, MP, chair of the Public Accounts Cmtee: stbrides.com/news/2013/11/t…

Being sent off on Sunday at 11 am from St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, for my Ireland run (justgiving.com/RunPaddy). Please come! I'll be in my runners...

WANNA WANNA WARD CLUB? 20th Nov., we're having a new and prospective members' drinks with plonk & nibbles at the Baltic Exchange, 6-8.30.

Do come along to our Christmas dinner! John Whittingdale MP, Buck's, 10th December. Silly Christmas hats. &c. facebook.com/events/5463140…

This ward newsletter includes a timely update from Dhruv Patel OBE CC on the KERB street food campaign by the Gherkin: cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city…

Fun! Games! AGM! (And dinner at the Baltic Exchange.) Ink your new 2014 diaries for 4th February. Go on. Do. facebook.com/AldgateWardClu…

(And this, by the way, is our annual dinner, with the editor of Hansard: stationers.org/young-statione…) lnkd.in/dCp7dvH