2014 Northern Chapter Meet

Fantastic. We're not bringing the glawning for the weekend but we're away in Shropshire all next week when we'll be cutting the hole for the stove.   

We are leaving after work today and will stop on way see you all tomorrow

safe journey ,seeyou fri ,bag a good spot for us all!!!

lilyvdub wrote:

safe journey ,seeyou fri ,bag a good spot for us all!!!

will do

Have a great weekend folks!

A bit grey up here today but at least it looks dry for the next few days, although temperatures are falling:



Final bit of packing to do tonight then we're ready, although we had a disaster with the grocery delivery last night. As well as food, I'd ordered Alison 6 bottles of Orchard Pig Cider for the weekend and also two bags of charcoal.

In transit, one of the bottles had got broken, covering the charcoal in cider, so she's down to 2 now and we need to go out to buy another bag of charcoal.   

Just need to get it sorted before the football tonight.  

The route from the M6 to Gibraltar Farm:

AbsintheKombi wrote:

....... although temperatures are falling:

They'll soon start to rise once we get burning the tons of charcoal that everyone is bringing - including cider-infused charcoal!

AbsintheKombi wrote:

The route from the M6 to Gibraltar Farm:

Nice to see from your video it'll take a shy under 5mins but can't help but feel you took some of those corners a little quick.   

nearly there,!!! all packed apart from fridge.see you all soon

Cider sorted, buying charcoal when we fill up with fuel in the morning. Clothes to pack, then we're ready.

Sunny - I'd actually slowed the video down.   

Morning everyone - final prep here then we're on our way. It's currently a bit cloudy but expected to brighten up this afternoon - deffo shorts weather...   

See you all later.

Woohoo! We're bringing a cheeseboard and fire for late night kum ba ya sesh   

Dont forget to roll your cheese in the grass before eating

Just been to the butchers and spent £25 on meat - best keep the barbie going all weekend long

Bringing in the pork drippin as well - Skytiger shouts with joy while Tony pulls a face. It puts hairs on your chest Tony, failing that you can rub it on your body to keep warm!

See you all later this evening - Are England playing football tonight as it seems they didn't last night

Thanks to Martin and everyone else who may have helped organise behind the scenes. As new owners we thoroughly enjoyed meeting up with everyone and picking up loads of tips. It was a pity we were only able to stay for one night, but we can now get future events booked into the diary in good time.

A taster of what's to come:







We've had a fantastic weekend - many thanks to everyone who attended. My Blog will follow sometime but meanwhile I'm sure better photographers than me will be uploading some super shots.

Here's to next year...

Looks great. Well done everyone.

Thanks Martin & Allison for the organising, the Bloggers will report in more detail about what we got up to, here's a few snaps in the meantime....





















The obscenely large sausage belonged to Roobarb




I didn't mean to do it......










Outside the Midland Hotel Morecambe

I said there'd be some better ones coming. They look great Geoff.

Thanks Martin & everyone else for a great weekend. I have over 500 photos to sort & edit!

Skooby & Steve (simon)

Looks like you guys had a cracking weekend

Thanks for organising a great Northern Meet, Martin, and for the goodie bag (complete with minty balls). Big thanks also to Geoff and Dave for the beautiful glass tea light holder, Penny for the delightful cakes and of course, Marcus for the ale.
Here are our photographic offerings on facebook - what a fab weekend with you lot:
https://www.facebook.com/retrorunaways

What a great weekend! Thanks to Martin and Allison for scouting out the site and organising everything. Dalesman the tealight is very cool. Penny your cakes are more delicious every time. And as for the dripping Marcus.......

Great company, good to catch up with folks and meet new faces.

Didn't get a chance to say goodbye to eveyone, so if we don't see you at Dazdub Doo then Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Right then, here is the first set of pics from an amazing weekend. These are only Friday so far!

http://skoobyblue.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/walk-to-jenny-browns-point.html

http://skoobyblue.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/jack-scout-morecombe-bay.html

http://skoobyblue.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/brazilianvwbaycom-northern-meet-chilled.html

http://skoobyblue.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/morecombe-bay-midsummer-sunset.html