Motor-Homers Xmas Meet, 12th to 16th Dec 2013

First topic message reminder :

Finding venues for the Xmas period, with electric, hard standing, a function room, restaurant and a place big enough for a good sized meet are hard to find, we have managed to get a centrally located site at
Donington Park Farmhouse Hotel
Melbourne Road
Isley Walton
Castle Donington
Derbyshire
DE74 2RN

Your Marshals for this meet will be - The Motor-Homers Committee
Dates booked are 12th to 15th December 2013 for 4 nights (leave site on the 16th December)
Price per van per night is £7.50 + £4 per night for EHU
We have a function room booked for Friday the 13th December.
We plan on having a meal on Saturday the 14th at 18:00

Hope you can all join us for this meet in 2013

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Menu..................£15 per head

Slices of Turkey and/or haunch of Donington Venison
served with chipolata sausage & stuffing
Fillet of Salmon with Lemon & Dill
Mushroom, Cranberry & Brie Wellington (v)

All served with roast potatoes & seasonal vegetables

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Christmas Pudding with brandy sauce
Chocolate & Raspberry Torte
Classic individual Lemon Tart
Platter of local Cheese



EDIT

Hi all

Just to summarise arrangements so far

We would appreciate donations both for the raffle and mulled wine, all proceed will go into club funds.

We will be holding a Secret Santa - presents with the maximum value of £2 - wrapped and marked as suitable for male or female - one for each taking part

There will be a best lit unit competition (small prize)- judged on Saturday evening


Programme of events

Thursday 12th
Units arrive and settle in - please meet and chat to friends old and new

Friday 13th
12:00 -1:00pm Soup and roll - donation of £1 per couple for club funds appreciated
7.30pm Social gathering in hall - wine and mince pie on arrival. Games and music to follow
Raffle tickets on sale and raffle draw about 10.00pm

Saturday 14th
2.00pm prompt AGM -Please support our first meeting and come and express your views and provide suggestions for future activities
Followed by short Committee meeting



Evening 6.00pm Christmas dinner- followed by Secret Santa and music

Sunday 11.00am Coffee and Christmas cake. Please pay the balance of your rally fees


Volunteers so far
Soup -Bazza and Rina


Punch- Wurly and Jo
Mince pies -Leapy
Christmas cake - Barb (Shuggy)
Decorations -Ken and Wurly
Santa -we know who!
Music - Leapy
Raffle- Barb n Bob

We are open to any further suggestions

i suppose you will be there with hose in hand waiting for the roamers to turn up 1 by 1 what a marshall   ..will you be wearing your yellow marshall coat  .i think you have taken a leaf out of those wonderfull german people at the show who assist in the filling with water and emptying the toilet   .see u about 3ish 

I will be at your beck n call just whistle and I will come running from the bar , takes about 5 mins to get to the tap .

By the way I not the Marshall I am valet parking  

happy days bob i will explain to margarita that if your not there she becomes the assistant marshall,and will have to do the water   .
try and get me nearer to a 5 minute walk from the bar.you know i lose all sense of direction after 2 minutes.

ps do you have a yellow coat to fit margarita. 

Valet parking -does that mean I drive in- jump out and go in the pub whilst you pitch and set up for me - now that's what I call  CHRISTMAS spirit
Thanks Bob lol

Well back from a great weekend - well I enjoyed it  lol
Just unpacked all the stuff from van and drained it down 
Thanks to all who made the weekend a success

Ditto Pete. A great weekend.... Thanks to all for organising, arranging, coordinating and delegating!! It was a great weekend.

Merry Christmas & a Healthy & happy New Year to all!

Wurly & Jo

Hi campers yes i agree was a very good weekend wish everybody a good xmas and new year hat off to u pete well done.

We have also just got back from a great weekend with a great crowd, just the van to do now.
Thanks to all that organised this rally,fantastic

Hi campers yes i agree was a very good weekend wish everybody a good xmas and new year hats off to u pete and ken and the committe well done. 

A BIG thanks to everyone involved in organising a fantastic weekend. Think it will take the rest of the week to recover      

A merry christmas to all       

Mark & Sharon

What a great meet , lots of great people friends old and new . Thanks to the committee who marshalled the meet, Peter for his usuall master of ceremonies ,Ken for all the work behind the scenes and also with the games and Bob and Barb for the raffle and also to Hughie and Barb for their generous donations for the Tombola etc and special thanks to Barb for the wonderful Motorhomers Christmas cake
Happy Xmas and new year to all
Mark has just. Reminded  me  I forgot to thank Father  Christmas for making n appearance , I didn't realise it was Frank

Merry Christmas everyone & a great thank you to 
All who attended the meet.
Ditto to all the committee & to all who kept us entertained all weekend. 
Nice one Frank for being a brilliant santa & calm down calm down Marg!!!.

A big thank you to all who was involved in  this meet 

We had a great weekend lots of fun and games and dancing and we got to sit on santas knee lol

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas 

All the best for 2014 

  
Lisa & Brian

P.s our van next time wurly & Jo hope your feeling better x

Well back home now after visiting family while down that end of the woods, collected Barb's car en -route home and now settling down for some P&Q.

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What a great meet , lots of great people friends old and new . Thanks to the committee who marshalled the meet, Peter for his usual master of ceremonies ,Ken for all the work behind the scenes and also with the games and Bob and Barb for the raffle and also to Hughie and Barb for their generous donations for the Tombola etc and special thanks to Barb for the wonderful Motorhomers Christmas cake
Happy Xmas and new year to all

Our sentiments exactly, what a great crowd and a smashing time we all had and Baza has eloquently said what we are thinking (saves me typing it all out again    )

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.

Barb n Bob      

Well what a weekend   
BIG thank you to all the Xmas meet organisers, Pete for his games and entertainment, Baza & Rina for the soup, Wurly & Jo for the mulled wine, Mrs Shuggy for the Xmas cake, Frank for doing the Santa.
But without members it couldn't happen, so a big thank you to all that attended       
I'll get round to the photo's soon but in the mean time, I will give a pink ticket if you guess who's arse this is     

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Told you I'd put it on   

Well its not mine.  

shuggy68 wrote:

Well its not mine.  

Are you sure? I'm pretty good with photoshop   

Ued need a big shop my friend    

I'm waiting patiently for the revenge photo on this, but i have others to come back with   

I'm going to take a wild guess...
and I think it's "POLLY"

Hia

Not mine
Mine would have filled the page

THANKS for a BILLIANT  BRILLIANT weekend 

Sat here chilling thinking I have never laughed so much for a long time.

I just can't say what was the best bit as it all was the BEST

Thanks go to Ken Peter, Mrs Shuggy and mr shuggy and to everyone 

Speak later as I am still in awhhhhhhh of the weekend

Tis a welsh bottom  

The same person with a greyish face and writing on her forehead ??

Ah but there again there were a few with things written on their foreheads lol

whistlinggypsy wrote:

Tis a welsh bottom  

You could be right there Bob   

Leapy wrote:

The same person with a greyish face and writing on her forehead ??

Do you mean that one we knocked up about 16:30 Pete   

Leapy wrote:

Ah but there again there were a few with things written on their foreheads lol

I'm fully expecting some to be shown here very soon   

Yes and yes Ken - having seen  a preview of a few

Think some might need censoring   

I think it belongs the person that pushed everyone out the way in her quest for a pink ticket    

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Do you mean that one we knocked up about 16:30 Pete  [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] 

I was unaware that any of these kind of party games where being played, you mucky lot  

Be afraid Ken.... Be very afraid.

Wurly wrote:

Be afraid Ken.... Be very afraid.  

Ha ha, why? have you got one or two photos to put on in revenge? not to worry, got LOADS here    

whistlinggypsy wrote:

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Do you mean that one we knocked up about 16:30 Pete  [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] 

I was unaware that any of these kind of party games where being played, you mucky lot  

Must be a Southport saying Bob, knocking up round here is wakening someone up    

KSH wrote:

whistlinggypsy wrote:

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Do you mean that one we knocked up about 16:30 Pete  [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] 

I was unaware that any of these kind of party games where being played, you mucky lot  

Must be a Southport saying Bob, knocking up round here is wakening someone up    

A few girls round my way have been knocked up and I dont mean woken from their slumbers   

So the knocker upper that was actually a profession years ago, your not going to tell me he went round the streets doing more than wakening people up are you    

I will not elaborate any further for the fear of being moderated  

Hia

being a sensible person as I am 
here are some sensible pictures
so people can put names to faces just a few

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Ken as at least 490 pictures

At last some sense on this thread by someone sensible.    
great photos Polly!
Any more from others??

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At last some sense on this thread by someone sensible.    
great photos Polly!
Any more from others??

Obviously we made the right choice with nominating our new chairperson,  

That's what you think  

I'll be doing mine tomorrow Polly and will put them in the gallery, will post in here when I have done them, won't be putting them all on though there's toooooo many lol   

The Burchies wrote:

That's what you think  

I am sure you will be a stunning chairperson , I have seen you in lots of chairs and you looked good in them all   

If its a job worth sitting down for then I'm yer man!.

The Burchies wrote:

If its a job worth sitting down for then I'm yer man!.

I'll vouch for that    

Congratlutions Mark you will make a great chair.

I turned out the lights and closed the door as I was the last one to leave the site   Don't say it - there's a change then   Even managed to see Grand daughter in her nativity play on the way home

It was my first Christmas meet with any group and it was fantastic, brillant and a right good laugh. Can't wait for the next Christmas meet    I know we have just got back from this one.

So thank you to everyone Peter a fantastic job done keeping us on our toes on party night and also the mince pies.  Poor Ken was mobbed by the ladies   He may have enjoyed it!  Hope he has recovered. Thank you to the two Barbara's who made an excellent job of the tombola and raffle. 
Thank you Santa Claus for letting the ladies sit on his knee - and some of the men   

Thank you Mrs Shuggy for a wonderful cake - I know how time comsuming they are to make and decorate. 

Forgot to ask Rina for the potatoe, leek and stilton soup recipe it was delicious.

Finally thank you everyone for making the weekend special - it  couldn't have been done it with out you.

Sorry if I have missed anyone out but if I have thank you to you too.

PS Ken my pages are still jumping    Tried to contact my ISP but there is a 30min wait  

elldwin wrote:

Congratlutions Mark you will make a great chair.

Thanks Jan, you can sit on me anytime   

The Burchies wrote:

elldwin wrote:

Congratlutions Mark you will make a great chair.

Thanks Jan, you can sit on me anytime   

Now thats not the sort of thing you would expect from your Chairperson   

I would.   

Bed time, well seem a bit strange not lying there listening to the plans taking off