meet up

Hello all.

Sounds good to me Ruth. Hope all is well with everyone.

Looking forward to summer and a hung parlament!

Off to work now. Speak soon.

Spring has sprung

Isn't the weather just great at the moment? I hope everyone has managed to get out and about at least a bit. We had a great Easter, thanks - far too much chocolate as usual. Every year, we say 'let's not give everyone eggs this year, the kids are too old for that sort of thing anyway'. And then every year we end up buying (and receiving) loads.
I've signed up for a charity bike ride that a local bike shop in Sutton (Pearsons) is arranging to celebrate their 150th Anniversary. It's jointly in aid of the Royal Marsden and a charity they run that promotes cycling in schools. It's a slightly daunting 150 km long from the local, Surrey site of the Royal Marsden Hospital down to Brighton and back again. Anyway, I've decided that a 10 mile pootle to and from work (even if it is every day) isn't really in the same league so I've started trying to do some longer rides at the weekend. I did 30 miles to Box Hill and back today which was great in the sunshine and of course the views were great. (I can't take the credit for this photo!)

Well done, Ruth, for finding a likely venue for the next meetup. Have you got some more details, just out of interest? I'm sure the date is probably OK for us - did you need some firm numbers soon?
Look forward to hearing from everyone soon.

Simon
P.S. Apologies if there are any strange spilling mistooks - the cat keeps walking over the keyboard. Probably just cupboard love (-;

News about 30th May

Hi Everyone

Hope you all had a good Easter break. I think I may have found a local restaurant that will accomodate a large ( and loud ) party. It's in Trottiscliffe a few minutes from me and M20/26. So not difficult to find and you can all come back to ours and crash if you need to!

Let me know what you all think.
Ruth xx

... and here is the 'news'

Did as Paul suggested and checked the Sun website for this story.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2918840/Benfleet-sign-prankster-takes-the-B-out-of-Basildon.html

Hollywood NO Basildon NO

the council erected their basildon sign for £90,000. a man from benfleet, after a night out drinking, erected our very own sign for a mere £20,,,, any guesses who it was,,,,check out todays sun newspaper

Great Day!

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for a wonderful afternoon, I couldn't believe we'd been there for 4 hours!!!! A little bit sad that I didn't get too much chance to speak to Chloe and Charlie..... That's the trouble with a big table unless you shout very loudly!!
So..... everybody thinking about their record breaking attempts then?
See you all on 30th May
Love Ruth xxx
PS hope Tina better soon x

Arrrrh the day has come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good to see us all useing the BLOG The day has finally come - for those with bad memories, or dont read their texts or check out the blog, the restaurant is the DICK TURPIN Wickford A127 the time is 1pm the date is 28th march 2010 your everloving bro paul