Reading meet No 11 (at Ashridge near Berkhamsted)

[OmegaGav]

Hi all after a great meet in Portsmouth I was thinking about a meet nearer my neck of the woods on sat june 27th or sat July 4th  and Ashridge monument is a lovely place in the country with great woodlands, plenty of room to park which is not restricted by spaces we can just park on the grass and set up our own little area for a barbecue/ball games/sunbathing !/general chilling !/and of course bonnet lifting. There's also some nice walks and a bloody great monument to climb ! And I'm sure the kids would love exploring/getting lost !
Let me know you're thoughts an I will do a confirmed list if there plenty of interest 

[TheBoy]

Ah, I know Ashridge well - when I used to fix phones, that was my stomping ground

[mike213735]

Gav,

I can do 04th July as on 27th June, we are having our night in a campsite with no kids...

Mike

[AndyVXR300]

Ah, I know Ashridge well - when I used to fix phones, that was my stomping ground

Nice place to fix phones Jamie

[TheBoy]

Hi all after a great meet in Portsmouth I was thinking about a meet nearer my neck of the woods on sat june 27th or sat July 4th  and Ashridge monument is a lovely place in the country with great woodlands, plenty of room to park which is not restricted by spaces we can just park on the grass and set up our own little area for a barbecue/ball games/sunbathing !/general chilling !/and of course bonnet lifting. There's also some nice walks and a bloody great monument to climb ! And I'm sure the kids would love exploring/getting lost !
Let me know you're thoughts an I will do a confirmed list if there plenty of interest 

You may limit yourself if its the 4/5 July due to a clash with the ever growing East Anglia weekend.

[TheBoy]

Ah, I know Ashridge well - when I used to fix phones, that was my stomping ground

Nice place to fix phones Jamie

Not necessarily.  Ever bugger up there doesn't have proper addresses - they drop the house number, dream up a house name, then not tell the land registry or post office. Nor do they put a sign up with said name/number.

So after finding them after driving around in ever decreasing circles for several hours, the conversation goes something like this:

Me: "Good afternoon, Madam, I'm from British Telecom, come to look at your phone"
Sub: "You're late, you were supposed to be here 3 hours ago!"
Me: "I'm sorry, I had trouble finding you, you do not appear to have a sign for your house name anywhere."
Sub: "Well, everyone knows this is Dunroaming. The postman manages to deliver the post."
Me, by this point starting to walk back to the van: "Better call the postman to fix your phone then. Oh, you can't, the phone is bust."

[AndyVXR300]

Ah, I know Ashridge well - when I used to fix phones, that was my stomping ground

Nice place to fix phones Jamie

Not necessarily.  Ever bugger up there doesn't have proper addresses - they drop the house number, dream up a house name, then not tell the land registry or post office. Nor do they put a sign up with said name/number.

So after finding them after driving around in ever decreasing circles for several hours, the conversation goes something like this:

Me: "Good afternoon, Madam, I'm from British Telecom, come to look at your phone"
Sub: "You're late, you were supposed to be here 3 hours ago!"
Me: "I'm sorry, I had trouble finding you, you do not appear to have a sign for your house name anywhere."
Sub: "Well, everyone knows this is Dunroaming. The postman manages to deliver the post."
Me, by this point starting to walk back to the van: "Better call the postman to fix your phone then. Oh, you can't, the phone is bust."

We may laugh but that's how it really is

[RobseyMV6]

Hi all after a great meet in Portsmouth I was thinking about a meet nearer my neck of the woods on sat june 27th or sat July 4th  and Ashridge monument is a lovely place in the country with great woodlands, plenty of room to park which is not restricted by spaces we can just park on the grass and set up our own little area for a barbecue/ball games/sunbathing !/general chilling !/and of course bonnet lifting. There's also some nice walks and a bloody great monument to climb ! And I'm sure the kids would love exploring/getting lost !
Let me know you're thoughts an I will do a confirmed list if there plenty of interest 

Can't make the East Anglia weekend, 4th July
I'm with you Gav 


Robseymv6

[AndyVXR300]

Hi all after a great meet in Portsmouth I was thinking about a meet nearer my neck of the woods on sat june 27th or sat July 4th  and Ashridge monument is a lovely place in the country with great woodlands, plenty of room to park which is not restricted by spaces we can just park on the grass and set up our own little area for a barbecue/ball games/sunbathing !/general chilling !/and of course bonnet lifting. There's also some nice walks and a bloody great monument to climb ! And I'm sure the kids would love exploring/getting lost !
Let me know you're thoughts an I will do a confirmed list if there plenty of interest 

Sorry mate i'm at Silverstone on the 4th for the Renault Day with Bev and the kids

[mike213735]

Damn...

2 bad weekends then!

I can't make 27th June (as it's our first night in 2 years away from the kids) and Andy can't make 04th July.

Perhaps try a little earlier.....or later?

Mike

[AndyVXR300]

Gav your only 10 mins from me so if you want i'll arrange something as i know Lucy & Jordan are joined at the hip  and it now appears Jack and Jake are the same

[mike213735]

OK Gav,

You're in the chair mate...what's the date?

Mike

Andy - That's it mate, you jump in with both feet...Breaking 2 migs at once!!! Ease in gently Don't do things by halves...

[TheBoy]

Week before is British GP, and there are bound to be saddos watching that rather than going to meets.

As a possibility, what about the week after EA meet, think thats the 11th July?

[TheBoy]

I should add, as I am uninterested in F1 any more, that I only know the date of the Britsh GP because I live so close to it, and have to be a bloody hermit from Wednesday until Monday   

Roll on Donnington, let somewhere else tolerate it 

[OmegaGav]

Hi all ! I think the best date would be the 11th July as I have allot of birthdays to deal with in June (My 40th on 13th My Daughters 10th on the 16th My Sons 13th on the 17th and my Misses (?) on the 5th July, Confused......I am  )
So I hope all the usual suspects can make it and more OOF! members, perhaps The Boy will come and knock us all into shape !

I'll leave this open to discussion and start a confirmed list this weekend

If someone wants to do something sooner then I would be happy to make this No12

Right, job done, I'm holding my breath