Cast
CB
Julia
Michelle
Riss
Cappy
Greenday
Webcode
Paul y3k
Lisa
Mystery guest (read on to reeeeeeeveeeeel!!)
Cars
CB's Moonstone 206
Riss and Cappys Mitsubushi Colt and later there Cayman Green CC
Michelles Aegean Blue CC
Pauls Supra
Greendays black CC
Webcodes moonstone CC
Mystery guests black CC
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Meet One
The Osprey Pub
Carterton
Oxfordshire
Disclaimer: Please don't sulk if you weren't invited to this part of the day - I only had limited spaces available...
1. Riss and Cappy amazingly arrived first and on time!
2. Followed by CB and Julia
3. Then Michelle
4. Or was it Paul, then Michelle? I don't recall.
5. Michelle nearly had a car rearend her as she turned into the pub carpark.
6. We went onto my place of work, for the station open day at RAF Brize Norton.
7. er...there were some planes and stuff. All very boring for me as i see it day in day out.
8. We queued for over an hour to see the flightdeck of a C17 Globemaster.
9. Let me say this again. I queued in the boiling sunshine, in an unairconditioned plane to see something i see every bloody day.
10. But the company was good.
11. After that there wasn't a lot of time left till we had to be in Swindon so we wondered around the rest quickly and the I watched the girls eat 8 inch hotdogs.
12. I enjoyed watching the girls eat 8 inch hotdogs :yes:
13. We picked up the cars and Cappy and Riss headed for Swindon.
14. Meanwhile Julia, Michelle and Paul came to my house and witnessed first hand my lego "problem" :sawery:
15. Then we went to Swindon
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Meet two
Greenbridge Retail Park
Swindon
16. Webcode aka Simon (and his nicely modded CC) turned up and he very kindly gave me a new panel filter (and fitted it) for free! (Cheers matey!)
17. Then he gave me the bad news that my car can't be dropped easily onto 18" alloys.
18. Don't I just hate it when Erm is right! :x
19. Simon then had to shoot off...
20. Next we get a phonecall from Greenday.
21. Who is, almost inevitably, hopelessly lost.
22. So, (and you gotta keep up with this now gang!!
) Cappy and Riss are despatched to collect him from the "Honda" roundabout just off the A419. Meanwhile, me and Julia, and Michelle follow Paul to "The Spotted Cow" pub. Right, this is where it gets confusing....We lose Paul, then I get a call from Greenday to say he has found the original meeting place (Greenbridge) He is told to stay there, we ring Paul and tell him to go and meet Greenday. Meanwhile Cappy and Riss are still hunting for Greenday and their phone is on voicemail so we can't let them know we've found him and he's not where they are. In the meantime, I am trying to find a pub I don't know with Michelle following me. We end up in a country park first, then down some country lanes (but there was nowhere suitable for me to kill the girls and bury them in a shallow grave in a woodland copse). We eventually find the pub, Paul is there with Greenday and then Riss and Cappy turn up. Did you follow all that? Still with me? Good! This is where things take on a surreal twist....23. We take our seats in the beautiful sunshine in the beer garden of the pub. Let me just stress this pub is at the arse-end of Swindon, not easily seen from the road. At no point has this particular pub been mentioned either on the forum or anywhere else - it was a totally random pick made when we at Greenbridge.
24. A familiar face is seen walking towards us...
25. Its Len aka The Big Kung clutching a folder and sporting a big grin.
26. I naturally assumed this was the biggest coincidence in the world and he was having a work meeting in the pub we had chosen to be in. Even though Len is not from Swindon.
27. Turns out Len has used his slightly disturbing superpowers that the paparazzi all seem to have (for those of you who don't know, Len is the official forum photographer) to locate us. He hadn't let anyone know he was planning to come to the meet and went to the wrong place (The Outlet Village). He then drove aimlessly around Swindon, picked up a bloke (!!!!) and took him to Greenbridge. By then we had left. He remembered vaguely in the Swindon meet post we had mentioned possibly playing football, so he hunted down all areas of grasssland in Swindon on the million to one chance he might find us. He ended up at Coate Water Country Park (where i had taken a wrong turn) and then happened to see a brief glimpse of Riss and Cappys CC from the dual carriageway.
28. This is why Len now has Sherlock Holmes as his avatar pic! However he managed it I DO NOT KNOW!
29. But that cheap GPS he bought off me must've helped
30. The folder Len was carrying was actually large photos of some of the pics he took at Thorpe Park (Thanks for the two I blagged off you matey!)
31. After eating nachos, me and Greenday decided to have the "Fatboy Gut-Buster mega Bucket of icecream" (This was a Hungry Horse pub for those of you who are familiar) Lens pics to follow!!!
32. After my usual outburst of swearing at innocents and young children, we left for another pub.
33. Lots of wicked conversation and double entendres followed before we all went our seperate ways...
34. Another hugely successful meet - for those of you who missed it/ couldn't be arsed your loss again...
35. Hope to see you all soon
CB
ps Forgot a big chunk of the day, after the first pub we went to the Country park to try and play crazy golf but it was shut. So I amused myself by flicking an elastic band at Julia and Michelles butts and taking the piss out of a family of illegal immigrants who were eating Swan Burgers.
great report!! Always looks funnier when it's written down!!
who was sat in the cockpit of the BIG plane (Julias technical term) and was fiddling with the buttons. When all of a sudden we hear