2013 Northern England Chapter Meet 10/11/12 May

Quite easy really. I climbed a hill!

Aawwwww
Thought there may have been some tree/telephone mast to climb!
Good zoom shot

Skooby wrote:

Look at all those canopies .... great shot ... hope the rain stays away from you guys.

Great to meet everyone (& learn how to talk to people again ;-)

Link to some photos here

cheers
Skooby & Simon (Stephen)

Another great if chilly weekend!
Friday afternoon -


Heading to the pub for a hearty meal and a warm by the open fire




Sunset over Airstream (MarcusH in foreground)


Rainy Saturday morning


To cheer us all up OSG left us all a pork pie and Penny's delicious cakes hit the spot




Saturday sfternoon and the sun makes an appearance so a mass exodus to the pub in the next village










Clockwise from top right - Roobarb, Skooby, Babs, Marcus H, Skytiger, Purple Interlopers from York) Absinthe, Dalesman/Priscilla, LilyVDub, NorthPoles/Rudi, Jill


Storm clouds brewing


If in doubt light a fire


The Chuckle Brothers kept us entertained for minutes






Packing up


Thanks to Marcus for the personalised cookies - a nice touch and Absinthe for the stickers, and Skytiger for the IrnBru


Nice to see some new faces - Babs with James and Sarah (Retro Runaways) and Skooby with Simon - see you all at the Sleepover in 3 weeks?

Fab pics Geoff,see you soon

Brilliant - well done everyone - looks like you had a top meet.

Who owns the Coleman Shelter? Will you be bringing it to The Sleepover?

Cracking pictures Geoff, can't wait to read more of the shenanigans

lilyvdub wrote:

Fab pics Geoff,see you soon

Glad you liked the photos, thanks for organising the campsite, great choice.

The Coleman's ours Tim. We'll deffo be bringing it - might set up our Northern Big Dipper in it.

Great pics everyone - you know I'll be stealing them for the Blog. I didn't take many - don't need to when you guys are so much better with a camera than me. Here's a small selection:

















We had a great time, meeting old friends and new. Thanks to everyone who turned up and to those who contributed to us all having a good time. I'll start the ball rolling for next year very soon (by grabbing a date in June before anyone else so we might see some warm sunshine!)

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Great weekend with you all - gutted we can't make it to the kombi sleepover. Hope to see you again at some point this year though. Thanks for organising this&for all the cookies/irn bru/cake - much appreciated!

FAB pics Guys
Looks like you had a good time
Even though wet outside - you got wet inside
Looking forward to your Blog Abs
Hope to see some of you at the Sleepover in 3 weeks
Scooby cannot wait
Roo b Roo

Absinthe wrote:

The Coleman's ours Tim. We'll deffo be bringing it - might set up our Northern Big Dipper in it.

Good idea!

Well it was a great weekend thanks Absinthe for organising the event and to OSG for the pork pie's, Penny's delicious cakes, Marcus's Cookies. Oh and great Northern meet sticker aswell.

I got home about 4:20pm took it a bit easier on the way back up and had two stops aswell. Here are our pics.

Nice pics ,great to see you all ,can't wait to meet again at kombi do,thanks to all for making it a great weekend regardless of the weather.

Lovely to meet up again and meet some new faces and Kombis
Thanks for a great weekend
Sorry OSG/Harry for not getting a photo of you next to your van - we did it Sunday morning before anyone had chance to put makeup on or do their hair - didn't do one of ourselves either

Nice set of photos Marcus.

heres a few more of mine (feel free to appropriate for your blog Martin)

Thanks Geoff, those are great.

Tony - can you see how "settled" that horse looks?

The Blog's done: C13MPR.com

FAB blog Abs - good pics too

Mainly stolen pics, Scooby!

Harsh word - stolen - perhaps you could say they were liberated or shared with others?

Keep up the good work Martin

Just a big thank you for letting a couple of Southern softies join you again. I can't think of a better reason to put 540km onto Roobarb's clock

It's all already been said, but thanks must go to Lily for arranging the campsite, Absinthe for the gift of fire and shelter, Penny for her buns, Harry for the pies, Marcus for the biscuits, Skytiger for Irn bru, Haggis crisps and more fire, and the selection of exotic drinks that the banning order sadly prevents me from sampling!

There are already many excellent photos here (wait till you are all retired, then you won't have so much time on your hands...)

Liz's selection can be found here

Great to see everyone, and am looking forward to the next adventure!

P.S. According to an old QI we were watching on Dave last night: Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.