What do you want at the national next year?

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:14 pm

nice pic russ

Post by **8009STEVE** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:30 pm

How about two bouncy castles? One for the kids and one for adults.

Post by **Welung666** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:33 pm

Shouldn't that have said...

8009STEVE wrote:One for the kids and one for the big kids.

???

Post by dp » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:36 pm

RussLCV wrote:

I remember you lot. You were playing Russian Roulette with the heater hoses removing one at a time with the engine running hot to find the blockage.

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:39 pm

but they did have beer and pies

Post by **RussLCV** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:46 pm

What more could a girl ask for, pies, beer and LCVs!!

Post by **JimK** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:48 pm

Showers? We were camping, for heaven's sake! If you want a shower book in at a B&B.

As for food: what's wrong with cooking it yourself? That's what we did. I defy any catering van on the planet to improve on our dinner on saturday* or RogerRust's breakfast on sunday morning**.

Some people are too soft.***

*Sausage casserole. Very nice indeed.

**Bacon rolls, cooked in the open air on a fine morning.

***Note that this post may contain traces of humour and/or sarcasm.

Post by **RussLCV** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:51 pm

JimK

Yep a basic requirement Showers all agreed

Still no offers as to what happened to teh advertised showers, DOES ANYONE KNOW?

Post by **Welung666** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:55 pm

Probably the same place as the other 13 toilets that were supposed to be there!

I spoke to Andrew Stone on Saturday night and he had ordered 30 toilets but they never showed up. Surely that is something he is taking up with the hire company along with the showers. I will happily pass on all of this post for his comments if you'd like.

Post by **RussLCV** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:15 pm

I am sure it must have filtered back to him that the showers never arrived? It is now a week ago and I guess some form of compensation from them is long overdue. I can only assume that these were booked well in advance so there must some contract..................Its a bit difficult to loose 13 toliets and umpteen showers and then not have them turn up at all.

Post by **rayofleamington** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:05 am

Its a bit difficult to loose 13 toliets and umpteen showers and then not have them turn up at all.

Actually if you organise a big event, it's quite easy for these things to happen - that's one of the reasons I'd never have the courage to organise anything like a national rally for thousands of people (that and the fact that I leave everything to the last minute and hope it all falls together). At a guess I'd excpect the lost toilets were still stuck in a muddy field at someone else's event when mud/floods etc.. had left them unable to retreive them quickly enough.

I'm glad to see someone is going to pass comments back to the organisers, otherwise we're just creating virtual hot air.

Post by **Judge** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:23 am

rayofleamington wrote:.....(that and the fact that I leave everything to the last minute and hope it all falls together).

Not your LEO accommodaton I hope Ray

Post by **washer-bottle** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:26 am

Having been to Stanford Hall a few times in the distant past when I used to live nearby I can say that it has lots of experience of holding big car rallies. It has ....

lots of space ... plenty of room for games, football etc?

a lake where they used to hold hovercraft championships .. raft race?

easy to get to as its on the M1 M6 A14 junction

a big house that I have never been inside

it holds the British fireworks championships

a replica flying machine of Percy Pilcher ... birdman of Stanford Hall fancy dress comp?

http://www.stanfordhall.co.uk

It would be nice to have

A drive in clinic for your Minor to identify those funny noises - for a donation to Marie Curie? Advice for restorers starting out on what needs repairing etc. as a way of saving a few more Minors.

Drive in Krypton tuneup for your Minor. Get a man with a van on site.

Silly competitions which involve finding Minors / committe members on the site.

Shopping trip to Magna Park in Leicester for those not interested in Minors.

Encourage the local scrapyards to bring along some restorable projects for sale .... make it reasonable for them.

A few more of the traders who advertise in MM being encouraged to attend .. make it a condition of their advertising in MM next year (blackmail).

Another club to join us and show us up - how about the Vintage Minors, local Minis etc?

Send small convoys out on the Sat pm to visit the local nursing home, special school in a few of the local towns (Rugby, Market Harborough etc) to cheer folks up.

Ask the Melton Mowbray pork pie association to have a stand.

Just a few thoughts ....

Al

Post by **uax6** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:17 am

Sounds like you have actually got 2009's rally sorted there

Certainly the bit about the pork pies!

Andy G

Post by **Judge** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:14 am

washer-bottle wrote: Silly competitions which involve finding Minors / committe members on the site.

Everybody always seems to find me

Post by **d_harris** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:46 pm

Thats because you are Famous bill!

Post by **Judge** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:26 am

Post by **t_hinchliffe** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:03 pm

Well I'll be going next year just for the cakes, tea, pies, and maybe even a beer... (or 2)

TH

Post by **grahamt7** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:37 pm

Consider this - the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight are out every weekend in the summer. It wouldn't be much of a detour to get them to do a fly-past over the site, perhaps even on both days. They just need plenty of notice and they dont charge!

Spitfire, hurricane, lancaster and even a dakota!

Post by **t_hinchliffe** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:07 pm

Now that would be something...

TH