What can I say?
It was a GREAT get together.
I was a bit worried that we had promised too much and maybe people would be disapointed. Last week it looked like a disaster as the workshop was still unfinished with lots still to do.
On Thursday the power to the barn went off, then the water pressure dried up, then the outside toilet blocked up. Fortunately, it all came good at the last minute.
So many great memories of fantastic people, most of whom I'd never met before but became great friends very quickly.
Thanks to Proff for thinking up the idea in the first place. Our respective good ladies did us proud and it is wonderful so get so many posts and pm's appreciating their hard work.
I thought Proff was mad when I saw how much food he had ordered and I thought it was far too much. Amazingly almost all of it got eaten over the weekend. ALL the curry went despite there being enough to feed an army of 100.
Thanks to Jaber for helping to make up the oil drum BBQ to go with the cheating gas one.
Thanks to Bakerman for taking over and running the cooking on the BBQs along with my neighbour Nigel who did the B&B for Phil and Mike. How many B&Bs come with free Bentley limo service?
Thanks to Kev and Rob who worked on gearbox hours before I'd managed to get out of bed on Saturday morning.
Big thanks to Peter from Sherlock's who turned up to deliver parts on Saturday morning to many people and then took further orders and came back again later with further supplies despite the torrential rain.
Thanks to Tarka for NOT putting my cat on the BBQ (please post up the pics).
To Geriatic Germ who I caught half naked in my bedroom with my wife. He told me he was tryingto get into her underwear. Moments later he appeared "on stage" and he was indeed wearing her underwear. You had to be there to believe it.
Amazed that Oggy had just bought his bike day before and manged to get here.
So many geat memories and a brilliant weekend.
Thanks to Kenny for not sueing me after I tried to kill him with my KTM.
Considering so many old bikes were in my shed it is perhaps surprising that not one drop of oil with spilled on my new floor. Plenty of other things were dropped mostly by Thunder on Friday night...
We must do this again next year.
I was horrified when we calculated the total costs of over £850 but thanks to the marvellous generosity of all in attendance we fully cover the costsand made a surplus of over £200. I will post exact figures later when everything is finalised. Hopefully, everyone was happy with the value with good food, fine ales/cider and free Devon cream teas.
Thanks to everyone who came for a great Wee-kend.
Now how do I get rid of the smell of wee from my barn?
It was a GREAT get together.
I was a bit worried that we had promised too much and maybe people would be disapointed. Last week it looked like a disaster as the workshop was still unfinished with lots still to do.
On Thursday the power to the barn went off, then the water pressure dried up, then the outside toilet blocked up. Fortunately, it all came good at the last minute.
So many great memories of fantastic people, most of whom I'd never met before but became great friends very quickly.
Thanks to Proff for thinking up the idea in the first place. Our respective good ladies did us proud and it is wonderful so get so many posts and pm's appreciating their hard work.
I thought Proff was mad when I saw how much food he had ordered and I thought it was far too much. Amazingly almost all of it got eaten over the weekend. ALL the curry went despite there being enough to feed an army of 100.
Thanks to Jaber for helping to make up the oil drum BBQ to go with the cheating gas one.
Thanks to Bakerman for taking over and running the cooking on the BBQs along with my neighbour Nigel who did the B&B for Phil and Mike. How many B&Bs come with free Bentley limo service?
Thanks to Kev and Rob who worked on gearbox hours before I'd managed to get out of bed on Saturday morning.
Big thanks to Peter from Sherlock's who turned up to deliver parts on Saturday morning to many people and then took further orders and came back again later with further supplies despite the torrential rain.
Thanks to Tarka for NOT putting my cat on the BBQ (please post up the pics).
To Geriatic Germ who I caught half naked in my bedroom with my wife. He told me he was tryingto get into her underwear. Moments later he appeared "on stage" and he was indeed wearing her underwear. You had to be there to believe it.
Amazed that Oggy had just bought his bike day before and manged to get here.
So many geat memories and a brilliant weekend.
Thanks to Kenny for not sueing me after I tried to kill him with my KTM.
Considering so many old bikes were in my shed it is perhaps surprising that not one drop of oil with spilled on my new floor. Plenty of other things were dropped mostly by Thunder on Friday night...
We must do this again next year.
I was horrified when we calculated the total costs of over £850 but thanks to the marvellous generosity of all in attendance we fully cover the costsand made a surplus of over £200. I will post exact figures later when everything is finalised. Hopefully, everyone was happy with the value with good food, fine ales/cider and free Devon cream teas.
Thanks to everyone who came for a great Wee-kend.
Now how do I get rid of the smell of wee from my barn?