- WINSTON SILL/ FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER
From left, Laura McDonald, Rachel McDonald, Delano Forbes and Omar Martin enjoy a joke at the Sunday Club dinner.
THEY DO NOT do lunch - they do dinner. On Sundays! It's been over a year that this group of friends started meeting at each other's homes on Sundays to have dinner together.
Now, it's one of the very bright spots in their week of business, medical or television challenges.
Five club wives take turn at cooking/catering, while the husbands run the bar.
They are Hyacinth and Douglas McDonald, Peaches McDonald and hubby, Trevor McMillan, Tina and Colin Newman, Madge and Tanny Shirley, and Marcia and Richard Forbes. Then, there are the many friends who come to provide camaraderie and good cheer.
FUN, FOOD, FRIENDS
Each week brings a different flavour, depending on the couple hosting, but the common denominator is food, fun, friends and family.
The creative Douglas McDonald may be reading poetry in patois while his equally creative wife, Hyacinth, is busy compiling individually personalised albums with photographs of the club's Sunday soirees.
Or, the fabulous Shirleys may decide to add something special, like an art auction and red roses for the wives who host.
The trendy Forbes, with son Delano at the controls, tune in to technology to turn on the thrills - like karaoke Christmas with sing-along to the carols on plasma screen and 'live stage show' by Cherry Kong and nephew, Douglas Mc.
For the beautiful ones, Tina and Peaches, who managed to maintain their 'to die for figures', it's all about displaying their excellent culinary skills and having a good old lyme - everyone trying to give the funniest jokes or demonstrating old and new dance steps.
VENTURING OUT
For 2006, the Sunday Club raised the bar and decided to venture outside of their homes.
Hosted by Rocky Shields and his sister, Angella, they boated down the Black River then lunched at the lovely Riverside Dock restaurant.
Port Royal, Riu and other exotic locations are in store. Ex-Commish McMillan confesses that now he really looks forward to Sundays.
Karen Irons, Tony Pearson and other devoted Sunday Club 'lymers' could not agree more.
And last Sunday's showers did not stop the party. Tents were made more snug, more wine flowed and the umbrellas came out when necessary.
Among the invitees were: Bruce and Lorna Golding, Don and Ayisha Creary, Sheena and Malik Azan, James and Charlene Robertson and their lovely daughters, Audley Shaw, Donovan Lewis and wife Andrea.
