Arrivée est arrivé!

[Charlie Boy]

Cheers Postie. Bring it on Sunday if you're doing the Primrose Path and I'll have a read.

[mercianmick]

Still not arrived. At what point do I conclude that it has been "lost in the post" and request another copy to be sent?

[mikewigley]

Still not arrived. At what point do I conclude that it has been "lost in the post" and request another copy to be sent?

Just about now I would suggest.  Either PM MemSec or email Mike@PeakAudax.co.uk.  He'll need your real name of course and ideally a membership number

[frankly frankie]

And an address maybe - otherwise the 2nd one might disappear down the same wormhole as the 1st did ...

[Bairn Again]

My trophy still hasnt arrived.

Ive cleared a space on the fireplace in the drawing room especially. 

       

[eck]

My trophy still hasnt arrived.

Ive cleared a space on the fireplace in the drawing room especially. 

You just posted that to show off that you're posh with a drawing room and stuff. 

[MattH]

Still not here (close to Basingstoke) either. Not a big deal at the moment - just a data point for Memsec. It sounds like there is a pile of them sitting in the corner of a sorting office somewhere, rather than the odd one or two going missing.

[Bairn Again]

My trophy still hasnt arrived.

Ive cleared a space on the fireplace in the drawing room especially. 

You just posted that to show off that you're posh with a drawing room and stuff. 

Well I wasnt going to put it in the study, was i?   

[STMS]

Still no show in Exeter. 

Nor Torbay

[jogler]

My trophy still hasnt arrived.

Ive cleared a space on the fireplace in the drawing room especially. 

You just posted that to show off that you're posh with a drawing room and stuff. 

Well I wasnt going to put it in the study, was i?   

Would it not be best in the library?

[L CC]

My trophy still hasnt arrived.

Ive cleared a space on the fireplace in the drawing room especially. 

You just posted that to show off that you're posh with a drawing room and stuff. 

Well I wasnt going to put it in the study, was i?   

Would it not be best in the library?

I keep mine in the morning room.

[hellymedic]

Library, candlestick, Colonel Mustard - CLUEDO!

[cyclone]

Here now! Cheers Mem Sec - good shot in the arm to get back on the bike once the lurgy has cleared.....

[frankly frankie]

My trophy still hasnt arrived.
Ive cleared a space on the fireplace in the drawing room especially.   

The photos you sometimes see in Arrivee of people being handed trophies are, as photos tend to be, just a captured moment in time.  You don't see the moment that follows immediately afterward, where it's snatched back again "we'll keep this safe for you, shall we".

[Martin]

when did they stop allowing you to take the trophies home? I remember Manotea struggling to get his back to the next year's whilst doing a 200 in 2007

[hellymedic]

when did they stop allowing you to take the trophies home? I remember Manotea struggling to get his back to the next year's whilst doing a 200 in 2007

After a large number were stolen, probably soon after the above.
Some of the trophies were irreplaceable.

[Bairn Again]

My trophy still hasnt arrived.
Ive cleared a space on the fireplace in the drawing room especially.   

The photos you sometimes see in Arrivee of people being handed trophies are, as photos tend to be, just a captured moment in time.  You don't see the moment that follows immediately afterward, where it's snatched back again "we'll keep this safe for you, shall we".

In my case AUK took that approach to security to another level by deciding not to even notify me, thus avoiding the risk that I'd turn up at their party and touch the trophy at all.  Maybe its because Im Scottish they thought Id steal it. 

I guess I'll just have to take a photocopy of the handbook and keep that on the fireplace.  It'll be ever so special.

I'm ever so proud to be a member of an organisation that does stuff like this.

[frankly frankie]

when did they stop allowing you to take the trophies home? I remember Manotea struggling to get his back to the next year's whilst doing a 200 in 2007

After a large number were stolen, probably soon after the above.
Some of the trophies were irreplaceable.

As above, another problem is that trophy holders are then obliged to return them a year later.  Given that the AGM/Dinner can move from one end of the country to the other in subsequent years, this might commit the trophy holder to a long journey they might not otherwise want to do, or a lot of postal/insurance hassle.  It's also problematic if the trophy is the size of an eagle owl and the weight of a Halfords bike, and the holder wishes to cycle to the meeting.

[Pingu]

when did they stop allowing you to take the trophies home? I remember Manotea struggling to get his back to the next year's whilst doing a 200 in 2007

After a large number were stolen, probably soon after the above.
Some of the trophies were irreplaceable.

As above, another problem is that trophy holders are then obliged to return them a year later.  Given that the AGM/Dinner can move from one end of the country to the other in subsequent years, this might commit the trophy holder to a long journey they might not otherwise want to do, or a lot of postal/insurance hassle.  It's also problematic if the trophy is the size of an eagle owl and the weight of a Halfords bike, and the holder wishes to cycle to the meeting.

Don't the winners get a copy, AUK being so allegedly rich an' all?

[MattH]

Winners get a small trophy to take home and keep forever.

[JBB]

Still waiting for mine in South Wiltshire. I wonder if they're stuck in the huge sorting office just of the M40 just north of Oxford...

[L CC]

I'm ever so proud to be a member of an organisation that does stuff like this.

I have to say, every time we're reminded of this we're re-appalled.

Disgusted of Diss.

[Martin]

Don't the winners get a copy, AUK being so allegedly rich an' all?

yes  ; not quite a replica (and mine is definitely the best of all of 'em) but still nice to have on a shelf for posterity

[Martin]

In my case AUK took that approach to security to another level by deciding not to even notify me, thus avoiding the risk that I'd turn up at their party and touch the trophy at all.  Maybe its because Im Scottish they thought Id steal it. 

I'm ever so proud to be a member of an organisation that does stuff like this.

did they inform anyone? I wasn't aware. When I thought I was reasonably certain that I'd won something (a week before the end of the season and even then was nearly trumped on the last day) I just quietly posted off my cheque

please don't have a go at the peeps that work so hard for AUK on a public place like this; an email or two is so much easier to clear up any misunderstandings

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

A Bridie is what are called pasties south of the border.



[edit]  good backlog reading from me on the bridie front then [/edit]

Bridies are what I presume pasties were before Ginsters got their hands on them...