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I have created a Newbury Rally photo album for any Newbury photos you may have and added a few I took
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Well done to Nuke for providing some warm hospitality (and cold beer!) on Saturday night
My pleasure, it's nice to be able to entertain for a change as I have always had to return off site to B&B. (The Kontiki 679 I have on loan from Swift has such a good layout for socialising as can be seen from the photo below) We actually had 10 in the van as myself, Ken and Russell were in the Kitchen area
Well done to Jen and Ken for their sterling efforts firstly for marshalling so efficiently and secondly for assisting me in Building and dismantling the MHF Trade stand as well
Also had some assistance with the tent folding from Simon from Planet
And finally i have to give thanks to Brillopad who along with his wife proved to be an excellent team at flyer / carrier bag distribution.
His wife was sat on the stand packing flyers / stickers into carrier bags with me, whilst Dennis was out in front of the stand chatting to EVERY passerby and giving out the bags, he really does have the gift of the gab
I added some photos and one of them showing Brillopad and a potential member are shown below and must be worthy of a caption competition just for the look on her face alone
During the chaos of the end of show stand dismantling I manoeuvred my Swift van down the Aisle that the MHF stand was in to pack everything away into it, and i was followed shortly after by a white (smaller) van who then proceeded to drive into another stands protruding roof height spikes and drag them along the side of "her" van much to the amusement of onlookers
Hi everyone, we are also back home after a very traffic free journey round the m25 and m23. Apart from the gusting wind its been a very quick journey home. I am sorry I didn't get to say hello at the stand but my time around the show was quite limited given the rather wet weather we had this year!!!!! I think probably quite a few of the ralliers passed our van with the 2 baby dolls at the front. They are Pollyanna and Pierro.
I can now answer what happens if you turn up early on Wednesday you are uncermoniusly told to go away, which is fair enough, I just wanted to know. We stopped at the Newbury service station over night which was not the easiest to park at given we had to buy the tickets and park in the travelodge area and then trek all the way over to the service station for hot food which we had to carry back to our vans. To park closer would have cost £25 instead of the £10 we paid, but very poor facilities for blue badge holders in big vehicles.
We enjoyed the Thursday night show with Union Gap and Eddison lighthouse and the free show on Saturday was much more to our taste and therefore we thought it very good, certainly there was a good number of people there. A man called Bob Oakley with his horse and guitar.
We had a real laugh in our new van on Thursday. The rain of course had collected on the roof but when Charlie went up on his wheelchair lift and was at the Zenith the van leant to the weight and the rain literally fell like a waterfall shower on to his legs and knees and he could do nothing except get very wet. I just fell about laughing!!! A quick change of clothes and he was soon fine and dry again but it certainly made for a memorable trip! We shall however watch for that in future and protect him a bit more...... maybe!
We have got lots done with the tyres all being done with puncture seal and a very nice chat with the Gaslow people who discovered that we had a lose nut on our system and gas was escaping when it was switched on. Nothing to do with the lose nut (me) who couldn't hear the gas.
Back home from Newbury now and funnily enough the sun has come out It's still windy though.
As promised for rayc the answers to the Pub Names Quiz:
1 The Slug & Lettuce, 2 The Dusty Miller, 3 The Hare & Hounds, 4 The Crown & Anchor, 5 The Anchor, 6 The Bird in Hand, 7 The Bricklayers Arms, 8 The Kings Arms, 9 The Dog & Pheasant, 10 The Plough Inn, 11 The Railway Tavern, 12 The Rising Sun, 13 The Queen Vic, 14 The Royal Oak, 16 The Running Stream, 17 The Six Bells, 18 The Sun Inn, 19 The White Horse, 20 The Wheatsheaf, 21 Ye Olde Ship Inn, 22 The Trafalgar, 23 The Swan Inn, 24 The Spotted Cow, 25 The Coach & Horses, 26 The Cricketers Inn, 27 The Ball & Wicket, 28 The Green Dragon, 29 The Rovers Return, 30 The Dirty Duck.
As you may have gathered I didn't keep a copy of the file to download
HI,
Back from Newbury, suns out and the grass has grown again!
A big thank you to Jen & Ken for their efforts and the quiz, it certainly got us all together. We enjoyed it (we should...... we won!!!!) and look forward to the celebratory headache! Thanks for the prize.
Although the weather could have been better it was a good weekend.
we arrived home safely and are unloading the tribby how much there is. but gill say we must move on new m h should be here in two to three weeks ?. we did get all the pub names right errrr well may be thank for a great time
c u soon
larry and gill
We're also back from Newbury. Thanks Jenny and Ken for organising it. Sorry we're so shy and didn't really 'mingle' will promise to do better next time
We had a really good time but were slightly disappointed with Ricky Tomlinson, oh well he was only a small part of the weekend.
We've been back since Monday afternoon, but we quickly moved out again to give the builders chance to fit the kitchen
And now we're on a local site with no WiFi and no 3 dongle signal We've just popped back home now for an update on the kitchen, and then we're orft again
Many thanks Jen and Ken for organising the rally at Newbury. We had an excellent time - even the Elvis impersonator on Sunday was ... errr ... entertaining And thanks to Nuke for the use of his loan van on Saturday night when it turned decidedly too chilly for standing / sitting around outside. We had a fine time It was lovely to meet so many people there, and to make the real acquaintance of people we've only known through this glass screen. Thanks also to Pete (woofer) for his invaluable help in getting our new side awning / tent thingee erected. It was lovely to sit in it on Thursday night, watching the rain chasing down the sides.
As a final note on the Newbury Show, I'd like to let you all know that I collected £11 on the sale of the little mirror logos, all of which will be donated to the MHF charity. It won't show as a separate donation from the show as the software doesn't allow this and I'll hopefully do some more for Hamble next weekend before making the payment. Rest assured though that your £1 donations are much appreciated and going to a good cause.
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hi all, i guess we are the last home i would like to say Many thanks Jen and Ken for organising the rally at Newbury
chapter (steve & cherry) and brandy (bill & deb)
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new m h should be here in two to three weeks ?. we did get all the pub names right errrr 
thank for a great time
