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Dear All,
Poor
MAG Paul spent a lonely weekend shivering in his tent at the Slippit
Inn rally. Billed as the 'Ride of the Tigers', this event should
have seen most of Wirral's Tiger men riding down to Gloucester
together, no doubt with a bit of off-roading thrown in to test
their steed's capabilities over the rough stuff. A bad weather
forecast soon resulted in most of them finding they were otherwise
engaged that weekend.
John Spall did turn up to meet the others but, not having directions,
went back home when no-one else turned up. The intrepid explorer
and Elefantman wannabe has usurped Chunky as deputy assistant
runs captain and is currently leading the trophy points table.
Anxious to prove his cold weather credentials, John led a small
band of acolytes the long way round on the latest of our increasingly
rare visits to Oswestry. Could it be that Peter has finally tired
of the place? He was out of the country for this one. Ken wasn't
impressed with the Barley Mow, a brew pub who don't seem to brew
very much; no mild or brown ale on offer.
The following week was our annual pilgrimage to see if the Blue
Bell in Tushingham is open. Chris and I made our own way there
on yet another freezing April night. The main mob, again led by
Jumbo John with a satnav stuck to his tacho, went via Oswestry
on a scenic route which took an hour and a half to cover the twenty
mile ride from Chester. At least the place was open this time
- two years ago the pub had closed down altogether and last year
we found it closed on Mondays, which is why Peter had rescheduled
this to a Tuesday. Sadly here also mild and brown ale had been
abolished so another pub to cross off the list, Peter. I noted
from the ensemble gathered here that there was a completely different
set of people at our branch meeting at the Thatch the night before;
it seems most folk are only allowed out once a week.
We will have to book for the Thunderbird rally soon, let me or
Ken know if you are going; also has anybody organised our camping
weekend yet? This is another of those events Ken gets lumbered
with by default; a volunteer to sort out booking the site would
be welcome.
Dave Pearson
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It
is good to have Dave back as club scribe with his usual
monthly jibes at one or more of our stalwart crew.
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