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Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #125 on: 24 September, 2017, 07:04:58 am »
Mist over the camping field.   We're at the top of the hill looking down on the mist which is thickest in the bottom corner where we camped earlier in the year.

The Clarionettes are partly shrouded in mist as they are somewhat detached from the rest of us.   

Kim

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Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #126 on: 24 September, 2017, 03:35:22 pm »
And I'm onna train.  Weirdly, it isn't rammed, and the luggages are clogging up the vestibule rather than the bike area.

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #127 on: 24 September, 2017, 04:15:14 pm »
Good news on the train front then.

I am sitting here gazing across an empty camping field enjoying the sound of the wind rustling the leaves accompanied in the distance by a Sunday afternoon petrol lawn mower.

This is England!

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #128 on: 24 September, 2017, 05:13:42 pm »
I'm 'ome. Took the train from Stamford.

It was really good to meet friends again.  :thumbsup:

I must try to get to more of these type of things next year...

If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is...

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #129 on: 24 September, 2017, 06:09:52 pm »
As i thought i carefully timed my arrival at my parents for 10 minutes before they sat down to sunday lunch. Just enough time to prepare some extra veg to feed the extra person  :thumbsup:

Thank you all for the reminder of just how good the people on here are face to face. It was a wonderful way to spend my birthday.

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #130 on: 24 September, 2017, 06:35:04 pm »
Really nice to have you both along.   Would be nice if you could make it to Long Itch in May.   :thumbsup:

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Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #131 on: 24 September, 2017, 08:00:24 pm »
The joy of the first ride on a new bike

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Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #132 on: 24 September, 2017, 08:20:56 pm »
I just unpacked my tent, and two daddylonglegses came out.  One flying.

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #133 on: 25 September, 2017, 06:15:40 am »
It's been raining for about 8 hours now.  No packing up dry for us!    :(

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #134 on: 25 September, 2017, 09:10:53 am »
Still raining ...

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #135 on: 25 September, 2017, 10:57:14 am »
Still raining ...

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #136 on: 25 September, 2017, 11:05:39 am »
It’s good for the slugs...
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Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #137 on: 25 September, 2017, 02:21:22 pm »
Could well be but We've escaped damp but unslugged.  We seem to be free of daddy long legs too which is a bonus.   :thumbsup:

Re: WING camping weekend: provisionally 22nd - 24th September
« Reply #138 on: 26 September, 2017, 12:13:35 pm »
Many thanks to all the people who helped Apollo get the bike. He was thrilled  :thumbsup: . Another great camping weekend. I ended up going home by van as Apollo managed to drown my bivvi bag  ::-) .
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Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #139 on: 26 September, 2017, 09:39:58 pm »
OK.  Should have reported back earlier but for some reason I felt rather unwell this morning.

The weekend was a real success.   

As many will now know the venue change was so that we could supply a replacement bike for the stolen replacement bike for the stolen bike that Apollo owned and loved.   Yes, that's three different bikes!   I have privately PM's many of you to ask for help in fundraising and soon I will be asking for payment of your generous pledges (or part thereof) as a certain Velomancer of this parish is currently well out of pocket!   If anybody else wishes to contribute to this worthy cause please PM me and I'll add you to my list of donors and subsequently collect from you.

I'm hoping that some pictures of a man riding and loving his bike will appear here soon, and then some of Apollo too.   Yes, I did get pictures of the lesser spotted Torslanda actually riding a bike with a look of determination etched across his face.  I am told that this is indeed a rare occurrence akin to catching footage of Teh Yellow One saying something sensible!

Thank you to everybody who was able to turn up this weekend.  Apollo certainly enjoyed himself, I had a great time and I hope that you did too.   :thumbsup:

Three weekends in 2018:  Long Itch, Wing and Silverdale.   

Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #140 on: 26 September, 2017, 10:49:54 pm »
You wanna da fotos?

Handover of Apollo's bike
 




The ride around the Puddle




 :thumbsup:
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is...

Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #141 on: 27 September, 2017, 07:32:18 am »
PB's pics

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Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #142 on: 27 September, 2017, 08:27:13 am »
Angonnamo. I appear to be riding a bike . . .

 ??? <This Never Happens>
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #143 on: 27 September, 2017, 08:31:48 am »
Angonnamo. I appear to be riding a bike . . .

 ??? <This Never Happens>

Just like your camping habit then...   :o   ;D

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Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #144 on: 27 September, 2017, 08:36:05 am »
Ah I really wish I could've made it. I booked leave from work and everything. In the event I've managed to exhaust myself (again) and couldn't face the travelling. Hopefully I'll manage myself better next year and make it along.

Some gorgeous photos there.
Milk please, no sugar.

Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #145 on: 27 September, 2017, 08:37:48 am »


For those who don't know the rogues in the picture, left to right:

mlle pb
Matthew
Cycleman
Apollo
Kim
Wobbly John
Vinyl John

Vinyl John is a friend of Cycleman's (and ours now of course) and is a lovely chap.  There were so many Johns on the weekend that it was appropriate to give him a distinctive name, which I did!   :D

Ah I really wish I could've made it. I booked leave from work and everything. In the event I've managed to exhaust myself (again) and couldn't face the travelling. Hopefully I'll manage myself better next year and make it along.

Some gorgeous photos there.


If nothing else Ruthie, Silverdale next year? 

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Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #146 on: 27 September, 2017, 08:40:04 am »
Angonnamo. I appear to be riding a bike . . .

 ??? <This Never Happens>

Another reason for cheering then!

And Apollo looks very happy. Nice one.

Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #147 on: 27 September, 2017, 11:25:08 am »
And Kim with a non-folding upright cycle...

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Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #148 on: 27 September, 2017, 05:34:10 pm »
And Kim with a non-folding upright cycle...

I looked at the photo and thought, something's not right.  The world is a strange place.  First Brexit and then Trump, and now this.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein

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Re: WING camping weekend - Apollo's new bike.
« Reply #149 on: 27 September, 2017, 08:21:15 pm »
And Kim with a non-folding upright cycle...

I looked at the photo and thought, something's not right.  The world is a strange place.  First Brexit and then Trump, and now this.
It does happen.  Indeed, I've got two of the things.  Sadly the sproingy mudbike (which is much more wrist-friendly on the circumnavigation of the puddle) lacks front racks, so I brought the boring Dawes instead.