Off on a rally this weekend.

Boff
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edited March 2017 in Centre News & Rallies #1

Going to set off I a couple of hours to go on a rally ( Are they still called that or have they been rebranded). Big question is it going to be wet & muddy or muddy & wet?

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  • Bakers2
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    edited March 2017 #2

    Boff have a great time and call it what you want 😉. As for the weather I suspect all of the above. Take clothing for every type of weather but possibly not sunbathing ones. ENJOY

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2017 #3

    Where are you off to this time?

  • Boff
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    edited March 2017 #4

    Not far Cotton Arms Wrenbury Nr Nantwich.  Beer and food, inspiring and adventurous enough  for me.

  • Boff
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    edited March 2017 #5

    Breaking news still at home Mrs Boff, stuck in traffic, but we have been asked if we want someone to reserve us a pitch in the shallow or deep mud 😳

  • brue
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    edited March 2017 #6

    Have a good time, all of you, mud or no mud!  wink

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2017 #7

    Go for the deep mud less of a step up into c/vansurprised

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2017 #8

    You devil, you. Go for it.

  • bill
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    edited March 2017 #9

    There's no such thing as bad weather - just inappropriate clothing !

  • Boff
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    edited March 2017 #10

    Ok live update er got stuck going on. Well 12 blokes pushing got us moving.   Bit fuzzy went for a social drink was taken. There was a walk organised a tour of mud in the Cheshire countryside. Currently eating  Lunch in the pub 2 courses for £6 which is outstanding value.  The Yellow flag is flying proudly and idiot daughter forget to bring spare trousers. 

  • ABM
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    edited March 2017 #11

    Use  the  Yellow  Flag  as  a  nappy  and  a  pillow-case  or  cushion  cover  with  the  corners  lopped  off  ==  Job  Dun  !!wink

     

    P.S.  If  I  had  seen  this  earlier  I  could  have  directed  you  to  the  best  stalls  in  Nantwich  Market  Hall  !!

  • Boff
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    edited March 2017 #12

    Back home safe, a great if somewhat muddy time had by all.

  • Dave
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    edited March 2017 #13

    Did you get to keep lots of free mud samples to bring home with you?

    Went to look at the field for a rally we are running in two weeks time yesterday. Good news - local pub has a great selection of real ales and makes real pies (ones with pastry on top and bottom), bad news - field can't be used because the owner has had to install drainage pipes (insisted on by local council) and it's to soft to drive on. Luckily he has another field with ehu we can use. Bonus!

    Dave

  • Boff
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    edited March 2017 #14

    Must admit car was covered in mud from getting on, on Friday.  Previous experience tell me it unloads mud all over the van.   So I took the car out first thing a found so standing water on the road, I didn't have to look that hard or far, and washed most of the mud off. Van remained relatively clean on the journey home. 

  • DSB
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    edited March 2017 #15

    Hope you had a good time Boff.  I stick to hardstandings and serviced pitches where possible, rather than to mud! laughing  Sounds like great 'fun' though!

    David

  • Boff
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    edited March 2017 #16

    Hardstanding and service pitches?  Not exactly on message with the new ethos. 

    Where is your adventurous, pioneering spirit David? 🤣😇

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2017 #17

    I agree that's not in the Ethos of the "new company"undecided

  • DSB
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    edited March 2017 #18

    I somehow can't see the Club digging up all the hardstandings and unplugging all the electric anytime soon... laughing

    I think the word inclusive was somewhere in that ethos smile  The Club should have something for everyone, but I always come and read the rally section to see how things are going.  I remember with fondness my tenting days on fairly basic sites but these days I'm content to read about other people's adventures on rallies. laughing

    David 

  • Boff
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    edited March 2017 #19

    I am sure that you are correct. But the marketing spin is all adventure, Photogenic nuclear families surveying the horizon from tthe peak of a hill. Yet demand seems to be for comfort and facilities.

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2017 #20

    We have been with rallyers this w/end,and speaking to several of them, apart from their amazement of why there was a need to to change the the club "ethos" because dispite all the marketing speak ,that is what going to happen (their words) and what was quite obviose is that they are having problems attracting younger families, because of the cost of of getting started,and as previosly said,  they have nowhere to keep a LV at a modern family home,  two of them said that both their children and one also grandchildren ,have all got large tents because they are easy to store have more room, and have enough of the  modern needs for the times they go away, 

    there was one  "positive" is that centres will not have to change all their banners/flags etc wink

  • Boff
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    edited March 2017 #21

    Actually, the rally I have referred to here was full of Children from a couple of months old to young adults.  Not always like that but most ralliers in our centre at least are pleased to see them.  The barriers to entry to have any sort of LV have gone up without a doubt and 3.5t limit which effectively applies to anyone under 40 is going to drive a huge shift towards motorhomes away from caravans.  The problem is you can buy a starter caravan from a few hundred pounds upwards and it has nothing like the expense  to buy or the running costs to keep it on the road.  

    Rallying can be a cost effective way into caravanning (as can CLs). Also we have had an awful lot of help and good advice from ralliers over the years.  Just don't ask me after 14 years I still know nothing embarassed

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