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[Firefly]

well we r home, and all exhausted!
it was great to finally meet some of you guys,and a good place to go too!
despite the fact we got lost in oxford(again!), we still had a great time,and it was nice to know we weren't the only ones to get lost!
it took us 3 hours (more or less) to get there, and an hour to get home(!) (after i rang my cousins hubby and asked him the best way home.)

so thanx all those who we met,bandycat is a lot happier now he's had a chat with you face to face.
(will post piccies later,when he gets back from pub.):laugh:

[Alan the Vanner]

Yep, it was good to go to such a meet other than van shows and to put faces to names.
Here's to the next one!;)

[Firefly]

yes, (in bournemouth?)
sorry i did't speak much to you m8,but i was running round after kids and stuff. glad you got on with steve (bandycat) though.
maybe we will have a proper chat next time!

[Alan the Vanner]

Ah yes, I told Bandycat about a local dealership with a virtual showroom. It's http://www.fluffydice.biz
I had a look myself earlier. They have a red estate.:)

[Firefly]

steve says thanx for that m8!
he will have a look when he's got the energy to get off the sofa!!!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[malcsmaesty]

hello all!!
it was great to be able to put names to faces and meet you all today.
i'm really sorry i didn't get the time to talk to you all as i had intended:( as like sue and steve i was chasing my kids around,no rest for the wicked:laugh:
thanks to sue and steve for cd,its great:cool: ,listened to it all the way home,which seemed to be considerably shorter by about 40 miles and one hour!!!!!:rolleyes: ............yes, i got lost aswell:o
thanks to simon for all the technical help and putting up with my kids running under his feet!!:rage:
had a great day,will try and post some piccies later but my camera seems to be a little temperamental at the mo.
malc

[Jonathan]

Yes nice to see a few more of you. How about this for getting lost... took one exit early from the M4 and ended up going back via A4, Newbury, A34, A303, Andover, M3, Basingstoke, Alton & Farnham. Quite a detour, take a look at a map :laugh: I just tend to head roughly in the right direction and if it's wrong then too bad.

[Firefly]

malc,i wasn't going to let on it was you who got lost!
glad the cd is ok.
well, we all thoroughly enjoyed 2day. and steve and kids are all asleep already!
hope to do it again,soon (as long as its not near oxford!):laugh:

[Maria]

Sorry I couldn't make it :(

I was outvoted on the choice of events after the lure of Gerry Marshall driving Baby Bertha at Brands Hatch proved too tempting.

I'll try harder next time, and hopefully there won't be any clashes with other events!

Glad you all had a good time - piccies please?

[malcsmaesty]

Originally posted by Firefly
malc,i wasn't going to let on it was you who got lost!
glad the cd is ok.
well, we all thoroughly enjoyed 2day. and steve and kids are all asleep already!
hope to do it again,soon (as long as its not near oxford!):laugh:
yeah great day out!,trust me to rumble myself on getting lost:o
after i came back from taking the kids around the park i missed you by about 10 minutes :( we had a few piccies taken

[malcsmaesty]

heres another

[malcsmaesty]

ok,ok! heres one more!
you can see simon about to take his photos aswell and tony trying to talk ann out of buying her a toyota previa:laugh: :laugh:

[tony]

no sale there:laugh: :laugh:

[malcsmaesty]

glad to see you can still put your foot down tone:laugh:

[malcsmaesty]

last one.........:D

[Alan the Vanner]

Hey! How did that Toyota get in there?:rolleyes:

[bandycat]

morning!
have you sorted those leccy curtains for your van yet????
also i meant to ask what your avatar was??:cool: :D

[Alan the Vanner]

My Avatar is the cover for the Future Sound of London album, "Lifeforms". Not to everyone's taste, but I find their music is much more innovative than what's in the charts these days.

[Maria]

Should've recognised it! I'm an FSOL fan :)

[Alan the Vanner]

Brilliant!
You know I was wandering wether or not to have the image airbrushed onto one of the back doors.:D

[Firefly]

that would look awesome! be quite difficult to get it right though,i would have thought.

[Alan the Vanner]

Yes, I was discussing the back doors with Bandycat at the show. I was thinking of welding the doors together to form a side-opening tailgate, and then using the hinges on the other side, to mount some sort of mounting bracket for the spare wheel, 4x4 style.:cool:

[Beaker]

We were discussing someone thing like that ages ok, and were wondering if the door on a land rover discovery would fit the van. Still yet to find out. Could have a hatch then if it did.

Lindz

[tony]

hey malc that last pic was a nice one:)

[Simon]

I had a great day yesterday as well, really good company too - nice to put names to faces:) Unlike you lot, I decided to gamble on a short cut on the way home and shaved about 15 mins off the journey...wicked!! Normally I get hopelessly lost too.

[Simon]

Oops, made them a bit too small. Oh well...

[Simon]

Backed the resolution down too much, too!

[Firefly]

yay thanx simon! the old beast looks quite tidy in that one!!
steve has put our pics on pc, but he will have to resize them before he can post them.