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Wild-Gal · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 21:15 Post subject:

http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l2/wild-gal/pocuk%20mega%20meet%2007/ Our pics of the week...... Cool

Apparantly........ Somebody thought Stoney and me WAS the entertainment!! Shocked

If you booked us for your event......you need yer money back!!!! Very Happy

All I can add is sooooo much thanks to all that helped (with the putting up/taking down of gazeebos (they are harder than they look and dont go up on their own!) and of course all that cooking...... yum yum..) GARLIC MUSHROOMS ANYONE????? Laughing

Bouncy castle (cheers Hayley)...a must for any meet......... even tho the kids were making sure it wasnt going to go back in the van when the owners came to collect it!!! (imagine about 30 kids hanging on the back of a transit ... Shocked

)

And a special thank you thank you thank you...... to whoever brought the SUN!!!!! sunny

(also I apologise for Richie when he gave his thanks etc..... he forgot to thank the peeps that made/bought the badges/windscreen foil things/kids activity stuff/kids HUGE goodie bags and for them super dooper candles in a jar thingys...I loved them!!!)

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A FANTASTIC TIME...... I CERTAINLY DID!!!, AND I HOPE WE WILL SEE YOU SOON AT ANOTHER EVENT!!!! Wink

Karen x x

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mudcom · ***** Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 890 Location: mansfield

stoney · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 22:08 Post subject:

These are the birds of prey that often take off from the zoo and are not seen for a few days.........

Onan The Barbarian · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 23:08 Post subject:

Crackin' event... great to meet everyone... some for the first time, others again! Wink

Thanks to everyone who was there, for making it such good fun... special thanks to those who organised, cooked and assisted... well done guys and girls! Very Happy

Extra thanks to Redders for leading our group on the lanes... much appreciated, Andy... hope you get your truck sorted soon! Wink

And big thanks to Wiggletiger for assisting with my busted electric window... you're a star, Keith! Very Happy

No pics, I'm afraid... took two cameras and forgot to use either! Rolling Eyes

denjo · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 23:15 Post subject:

Cool pics

Looks like everybody had a good time
And here,s poor old me, stuck at home decorating all weekend. Crying or Very sad

Life sucks Crying or Very sad

mrs redders · ** Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 60 Location: Suffolk

http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x188/pocukpics/MM07/?

My pics from the weekend Smile

Thank you to James for navigating on Friday & Saturday, next time you can drive and I will navigate for you Wink

And thanks to everyone who helped to make this a great meet Cool

mrsgrumpy · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:53 Post subject:

Day 1: Weds 8th August

Turned up to site after a 6 hour journey, at 2pm an extremely hot and sunny day ... not too good when the Paj is air-con less!! Rolling Eyes

We arrived with Banf, got to our pitches and there were 'lodgers' in our pitches .... would you believe it, the pitches we had booked
were pre-occupied, so we had to move 3 other peeps out of their pitches.
2 hours later .... Richie arrived, the 'lodgers' were also in his pitch Rolling Eyes

then Mark Dale arrived and we put him far away from us Wink

Later that evening the 'lodgers' moved on .... to someone elses pitch elsewhere on site Rolling Eyes

Day 2: Thurs 9th August

Weather was sunny and very hot, didn't need the air-con today Laughing

(Thank goodness Laughing

) First arrival on Thursday was Taz and
Spud and 7.30am Shocked

they had been travelling all night. Throughout the day everyone arrived in dribs and drabs and lots of people spent
their first day at the zoo. We had one arrival without a Paj ... Maxpajero, came in a Focus ... he had problems with his turbo .... but looking on the
brightside .... how much fuel did he save Very Happy

Nothing was planned for the evening, just a general meet and greet.

Day 3: Friday 10th August

The remainder of the arrivals came, the gazebos were duly set-up, and the fridges arrived to store the food .... all 6 of them Shocked

and the BBQ's (kindly made by Redders). The main event of Friday was the 'dispersing' of the Chilli - Big thanks to Mark 'headchef' Dale and his team and of course the BINGO .... think Stoney has found a new vocation in life ... Bingo-caller-extraordinaire .... you can tell he is 40 soon Shocked

.... cheers Stoney, Karen and Jo Laughing

Day 4: Saturday 11th August

Another Hot sunny day .... (blimey we were blessed this year)
Today there was several events lined up .... 1st was to get the 'green-laners' laning, there were 4 groups of 5 .... or 5 groups of 4 Embarassed

with thanks to Redders and Suvvey for organising those.
The bouncy castle then arrived to keep the kiddiwinks worn out. (Great idea for future events Wink

) with thanks to mrs redders for organising
that for me. Thanks to Baddoo for supplying the kids with goody bags.
Food was then started to be prepared at about 4'ish ... Thanks again to Mark Dale, Gareth, Stumpyjoe, Mudcom .... (and the others that I didn't see Embarassed

)
The Green laners returned all dusty and muddy .... hungry and ravenous.
Later on .... we then had another round of Bingo .... Telford Vikings .... er .... difficult quiz .... mind you .... it's easy when you have the answers in front
of you Laughing

.... Thanks Frank, you make an excellent quiz master too.
All the money for the Quiz went into the charity fund.

Here's my big Big BIG Thanks to Karen (Wildgal) and Jo (Mrs shiny) for selling the Bingo tickets, being 'hostesses with the mostess' with all
the paperwork/money collection for the quiz and most of all selling the raffle tickets .... as most of you know ... I'm quite er ... 'immobile' at the moment Embarassed

We managed to raise another amazing £200 for the Marie Curie charity .... POCUKS nominated charity this year .... and thanks to everyone who donated the prizes to make it possible .... especially to Simon, Sir Pocuk himself and Milners Off Road, and everyone who bought tickets of course.
By the Way, Daisy won the Star Prize ... the Portable DVD player. Very Happy

Day 5: Sunday 12th August

A sunny day, with slight breeze overcast on occasions, (oh and we had a few casualty gazebos with a big gust of wind Shocked

)
Everyone dragged themselves from their beds ... Club Shop opened at 12 pm .... thanks to everyone who supported the club via club shop. Wink

Karen (Wildgal) started face painting at 1pm and finished at about 10pm .... only joking, but all the kiddies wanted doing Shocked

Big thanks to Mrs redders for donating the box of craft activities, and Mrs Petelgv1 for supervising the activities thumbright

Later on, we all grouped up for the group photos ... we forgot on the Saturday Embarassed

otherwise we would have had lots more Pajs ... as
we had lots of day visitors. Of course ... 2 mins after we grouped all got out to take the photos we had the first rain shower Embarassed

didn't last for long though. Very Happy

... but I think that rain shower .... 'did it' .... for Redders paj Laughing

At 5'ish .... the kids had their buffet ....
.... and thats where I have to leave it .... I didn't see/hear/participate in anything else till Sunday morning .... but I'm sure .... unless I was dreaming ....
Anne was playing her violin .......

A big thanks to everyone who participated in this meet ... to make it as successful as it was .... here's to next years .... Very Happy

Wild-Gal · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:01 Post subject:

mrsgrumpy · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:02 Post subject:

Is it not Monday today? .... Laughing

mudcom · ***** Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 890 Location: mansfield

no frank did not need the microphone nether did mike daisys other half a very good night of music & shooting stars for them who came out

mrsgrumpy · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:44 Post subject:

Hi-light of the weekend ..... The bald Eagle spying Tonys dog for dinner ... it was getting closer and closer ......... Laughing

mudcom · ***** Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 890 Location: mansfield

dinner don't you meen a snack

Daisy · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:08 Post subject:

Experiment - does this work?
No, but this does Very Happy

Click on the thumbnails..
The line up has had the weather improved as well... Laughing

Again, thanks to all the organisers as well as Stoney the bingo caller, music provider and marquee erecter, Telford Viking the quizmaster and closet Pavarotti ( a very nice singing voice Cool

) , Mark Dale for chopping up a lorry-load of chickens and pork ribs and inspiring the food prep etc., the BBQ team, loans of can openers various, Onan and Fran for making up our ( almost winning Laughing

) quiz team, Karen for some very artistic face painting ... sorry .. I should have helped you out, but you were doing such a cracking job Very Happy

Richie for being Richie, Tonka for those exellent windscreen shades Very Happy

, Thanks Simon for donating the star prize - which I assure you has gone to a very good home Wink

, the kids who did their very own quiz on the spur of the moment and hand wrote all the quiz sheets Cool

and all the other people who are so friendly and helpful - it's a real happy family Laughing

Tutor 52 parked his tent next to ours, and Daniel made a wonderful, if perhaps unwitting ? Wink

observation in his quite brilliant and inspired 'word of the moment' at one point - 'backwoods', or was it 'backwards', which seemed so utterly appropriate for the group of extras from Deliverance who had parked their caravan by the entrance and nearly murdered each other in their attempt to put the 'effing' awning Laughing

up

...
They came over to have a friendly shout at Boris as we were packing up - and in the course of learning their life history; they'd come down from Manchester, via Devon Confused

, for the birth of a granddaughter, ( I'm tempted to say, a sad day for humanity, but I wouldn't be so tactless Rolling Eyes

).. we touched on towing - they were towing that van with a Renault Scenic... 'effin' Dad' had his own way of converting from kgs to lbs, working on a conversion of 2.5 Confused

He made our boat 1.3 tons - so perhaps we don't need the Paj after all... Confused

Ah well, I suppose they were harmless, if somewhat loud... Rolling Eyes

Boris is utterly exhausted Wink

A great weekend and a real success.

tazbabe · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:09 Post subject:

just arrived back from the megameet........on the back of a truck, fan belt broke, it overheated, burst some hoses and likely the head gasket as well. sigh.
took the AA 5hrs from phone call to pick up, but we're home at last.

apart from that, we had a lovely sunny friendly relaxing weekend. great to meet friends old and new again. the bird of prey was sitting on my roofcrate at one point, we were cooking kippers at the time!

a big thank you to everyone involved in making sure all ran smoothly.

Daisy · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:10 Post subject:

Oh no

Hope it's not the head Sad