Fairmile Arms Annual BBQ 2006

What a cracking event. Cars of all types from the willie waving mid life crises Corvette brigade to Austin Sevens and even the Barried up Chav mobiles put at the back behind us. There were some lovely examples of all types of cars with the pick of the bunch, probably the Shelby GT 500. What a car and in perfect condition. I am a little bit worried about the condition of the clutch on the Lambo Diablo with the blonde lady driving. As powerful as the car is, it doesn’t need to be revved so hard to get it to move 2 yards, lol. Our section was well attended and it was good to meet a new mini face. Darren we all hope to see you again soon. Also the Supra and Subaru owners club were also well filled out.
Plenty of willie waving from the Corvette owners club with a lot of “my Corvette sounds better than yours”, “mines quicker than yours” etc. All good fun to have a giggle at and at the end of the day they could back it up with the horse power to boot.
The BBQ was good and went down well with all those that had it. Shame about the queue but if you got in quick it was fine. The band were a little bit to be desired for. I offered them our services as our Karejokey skills were probably far superior to this band. Even their recorded backing singers were awful, bad enough to crack glass.
The weather, for the best part managed to hold out and with the odd shower it was funny to watch all the convertible owners run out in a hurry to get all their tops up, only for the light spitting to stop.
We all left at about 10 o’clock, even though the event went on till 1am. It is a shame we didn’t stay till later as the Corvette owners club had an organised “burn out” which they do every year. This is a must to stay for next year.
Overall a terrific event and a must to attend for lovers of all types of motoring. There were plenty more cars on show but too many for me list at once and even remember. A top, top event, well done to the Fairmile Arms and those that organised it.

Mini In The Park 2006

Well what can one say, apart from it was a blinding weekend. Sadly due to drinking too much I can’t comment on the show, as I never made it. However what I can tell you about is the camping part of MITP. Oh I’d better mention who was there.

Andrew - That’s me lol
Doc - He is the lazy one
Petrina – She is the one who doesn’t wear much and god we love it
Laura – How could we fault the wee lass she is an angel, well she thinks so
Vicky – The one with a damn fine arse
Andy – He is the big guy with a wicked sense of humour
Lou & Jack – Andy and Liane’s kiddies

Then were joined later in the evening by:
Liane & John – don’t mess with them cos Liane makes a mean bacon sarnie
Claire & Ollie – God she is noisy and he is quiet lol

Well as usual it started off with everyone being late to meet up in Tesco’s (Well we got to get the food and drinks in) You can’t camp without any. Anyway nothing new they’re then, as we never end up meeting on time. The excuses people come up with ay!
As normal we convoyed up to Cornbury Park, although I admit I did shoot off, and apologise, but being a courier, I’m not used to going slow.

Anyway we all got there in one piece despite the heavy rain and the poor quality of driving from other people Anyway its piddling down with rain upon arrival, so being cleaver we thought lets get the little marquee up (9m x 3m), so after battling with all the poles, sheets we finally have a marquee up, although the poles were falling off left right and centre, but it was shelter from the rain. Next step was to get peoples tents up, but while we were sorting the tents a little gust of wind took the marquee across the field lol, snapping the connectors.

You guessed it, like a bunch of idiots we didn’t bother with putting enough guide ropes on. Funny how people look at a flying marquee. So we soon dismantled that thinking that we had a small gazebo that might have been more suitable. So once the tents were up we set about with the small gazebo to find half the parts were missing.

So what were we to do, try and fix the broken marquee or spend the night getting wet? Well like all good minis owners we fabricated the parts (Bodged to you and me) with good old electrical tape and yes you guessed it cable ties. Have to say it worked a treat and we soon had somewhere to stay dry and boogie the night through, especially as we used some of those guide rope things lol.

Anyway the rain continued the wind kept blowing, but despite this we kept drinking and eating, this soon led to some rather dodgy karaoke and some interesting dancing.
I’d love to say we were singing but it sounded like people were in severe pain not only from those who were singing, but also from those who had to listen to us.
Lets face it do other mini clubs offer karaoke, and have other clubs joining in while camping? Well no of course not, other clubs have taste. Sadly for you lot, you’re going to have to put up with a lot more of this next year.

Well I could bore you with more rubbish, just as all the attention our female members seemed to be getting from others, or the interesting driving in the field the next day, or even that Doc spent all night being sick, cos he had a little to much to drink.

Yes that’s right, Doc our big strong rugby player spent the night being sick, as he can’t handle his drink, and I thought I was a lightweight.

Anyway that’s it from me, if you want to find out what we get up to, then you will have to come along and join us.

Minis By The Sea 2006

Well what can be said about this day. Started off with an early rise for most people. That's most people except for Pop, who despite our best efforts was still asleep and missed his meet time. Despite that he still beat me to Rykas for the meet with all the others.

Then there was the magic roundabout incident!! Thank you John for missing me, the world does seem a stranger place when your facing the wrong way on a roundabout waving at all the oncoming traffic coming towards you. New rear tyres have now been invested in.

Guided in by the ever welcoming face of Charlie and his “bird” we found ourselves locate in a good position next door to the mini cooper register.
The show was full with displays of all types of minis and was a great little event. The banner got it's first outing and after much deliberation the gazebo was put up with out too much trouble. Then we all saw Andy's artistic talent come out with the arrangement of the cars. Very nice the final outcome was to.

Shame the weather couldn't hold out but there were spells of good sunshine, which when they arrived, we took the opportunity to view the sites of mighty Worthing!! Not much there, but one of the most expensive cafés that I have been to and I've been to a few!! Back at the show Neil was washing his car for the fifth time and if another spot of rain had hit it I am sure he would have gone mad!!

The day ended with most of us drifting off at about four o'clock, some of us off to do a three hour spell at the crease, well done Ollie. A good day had by all, especially the lads with all the “sights” on view!!