Scottish Mini Meet?

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:49 am

How about a mini meet in scotland sometime soon? Say August-ish time? Murf mentioned the idea of a BBQ which Sally also picked up on so how about it? Just a suggestion at the mo, i thought i would test the reaction before suggesting any venues or dates etc.

VanDerGraaf · Post by **VanDerGraaf** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:20 pm

As if i'd miss it!

I'll be there,

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:32 pm

count me in too, obviously!

early august is good for me, just one question though, how many people does it need before it becomes a "maxi-meet"??

sallysal · Post by **sallysal** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:44 pm

Roo wrote:How about a mini meet in scotland sometime soon? Say August-ish time? Murf mentioned the idea of a BBQ which Sally also picked up on so how about it? Just a suggestion at the mo, i thought i would test the reaction before suggesting any venues or dates etc.

-great Roo! - yes Murf, Rohan and I have been talking about this, and Ally mentioned he'd maybe be keen to come aswell.

I've been away in darkest deepest Fife

for most of this week with no net connection so hadn't got round to posting about this yet.

What about the 6th and 7th August weekend or the 13th and 14th August weekend? A cruise down to the beach, (possibly Yellowcraigs or John Muir Country Park) for a bit of a tinker and a barbeque, then back to Auld Reekie for a wee partay......hadn't got as far as thinking about the Sunday yet...........there's room for a few folks to stay at mine, and there's free parking around here (the yellow barriers have been removed

)

I'll do a reconoitre this weekend and post more here. Anyone got anything they'd particularly like to do?

Any other Scots or sasenachs interested in coming? would be good to get an idea of numbers

Which weekend is better?

is Edinburgh/Lothian a good idea?

who am I?

where did I come from?

and where am I going?
Sx

Ally · Post by **Ally** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:43 pm

I'm definitely coming to any meet within a 100 miles.

Anytime time is good for me as I'm currently a gentleman of leisure.

If anyone fancies going on a little tour of some back roads I know pretty much everywhere east of the bid E...

Loch Lomond / Callander / West of the big G would also be good for back roads and a barbecue but it is quite far for us east coasties. I lived through that way 'til I went to uni and there's so good roads there too.

sallysal · Post by **sallysal** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:46 pm

anyone got any suggestions of what they'd like to do on the sunday? I've checked out Knockhill incase there was anything interesting on, but computer says 'no'.

karting? there's a track in Longniddry, but they dictate min party numbers as 16

or there's one in Livingston which does better deals details of both are on http://goballistic.co.uk/
sightseeing? driving?

and which weekend is better?
Sx

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:49 pm

My personal preference would be the weekend of the 6th/7th. It would have to be a pretty cheap weekend too!

i'm up for most things so anything goes really. Not much help really am I?

sallysal · Post by **sallysal** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:06 pm

6th/7th is fine by me......................(coz then I could go and see the Alabama 3 on the 13th

)
yeah the karting is a bit pricey.
Murf? Rohan? Ally?
Sx

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:22 pm

6th/7th is good for me too

we could cancel the karting and buy booze instead, much more fun

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:32 pm

Murf wrote:6th/7th is good for me too

we could cancel the karting and buy booze instead, much more fun

If someone could bring a scalextrix then we could have the best of both worlds!

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:07 pm

or find a field thats empty and rally round it in our 480 parts cars!!

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:23 pm

Murf wrote:or find a field thats empty and rally round it in our 480 parts cars!!

i've only got one and thats not going round a field! i'll leave that to sally, i hear she likes offroading!

you've got too many 480's to choose from!

VanDerGraaf · Post by **VanDerGraaf** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:35 am

Yeah, we all pay Paul Â£20, get to rampage his S round the field for 1/2 hour, it gets wrecked, and he gets the money he wanted for it!

6th/7th is fine for me!

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:44 am

VanDerGraaf wrote:Yeah, we all pay Paul Â£20, get to rampage his S round the field for 1/2 hour, it gets wrecked, and he gets the money he wanted for it!

6th/7th is fine for me!

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:47 pm

not likely! and with any luck it will have a caring new owner by then who i'm sure will be interested in attending the meet with us

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:01 pm

Excellent. I presume you mean our new member from Dundee

VanDerGraaf · Post by **VanDerGraaf** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:56 pm

Aww come on dude! You might get more for it that way!

sallysal · Post by **sallysal** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:17 pm

@ Rohan

- nice suggestion!.......why don't you 'borrow' Paul's nice green S when he's busy polishing his Celeb,
he'll never notice......til it's whizzing round a muddy field

........you've got 480 keys......they're bound to fit!

I need to make sure I don't say the 'r' word too loudly......it'll get my car all excited!....I might have a problem holding her back once she gets a smell of wet grass!.........but she will not be doing any more off-roading!!!! I've bought her some new things and am about to get some of her re-sprayed so her brief rally career is OVER.
Sx

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:44 pm

her brief rally career is OVER.

brief but distinguished!
rumour has it that Colin McRae is staying in retirement cos he's scared of the competition!!

Ally · Post by **Ally** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:39 am

Hi guys and gal(s), sorry for the slow response, I was down in Cambridgeshire picking up 4000 partridges (how many birds have you picked up in a night?

)

Anyway, 6th/7th sounds good to me - I too am on a tight budget, although I'm always happy to spend money on petrol and things for my car (cars are SO much more rewarding than girlfriends) - can't think of any strokes of genius just now, give me a couple of days to think about it - I'm off to Shap, then up to Aberdeen Sunday night - Monday morning so I'll have plenty thinking time (Landrover's are too slow).

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