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    Quote Originally Posted by Unframed Dave View Post
    The phone charger has been claimed but I've discovered a blue folding chair.
    Blue folding chair is mine mate, if its in the way bin it, if its not I will collect it next time I see you bud. And again a superb weekend, the perfect antidote to the glum and depressing year we have had so far. It was wonderful to see the Great friends from all over the UK that attend these events. Heart felt thanks again x

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    Profuse apologies Dave and Verity for not getting on here sooner to express thanks and gratitude to you both from myself and Marian. It's been straight back into a hectic working week, and we're still catching up after arriving home after 11pm on Sunday night (we did break the journey with family in Hertfordshire on the way back).
    Your whole family has done us proud with the hospitality, organisation, precautions and taming of the weather. The traditions of The Bash have been upheld and are strong. We'll try and make the October Bash if there are enough takers to make it a worthwhile venture.
    Dave and Mike deserve to be Mentioned in Dispatches for there own efforts too - well done lads!
    For a non shooter, Marian, the current Mrs Clogger, thoroughly enjoyed herself, and it warmed my cockles to have her sit next to me on the benches and shoot "her" HW30 for a couple of hours on Sunday morning.
    It's been so good to see old friends again, and meet new ones too - particularly the local Bell Target Club members (has Jane decided on a rifle yet?).

    All our very best wishes, Alastair and Marian

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    Hi Dave, I’d like to echo the sentiments previously expressed by the other Bash attendees.... it was such a delight to be in the company once again of such a great bunch of folks and and enjoy the hospitality and facilities provided by you and Verity.
    First class organisation incorporating health and safety procedures and your emulation of Uncle Mick’s attention to detail and diligence was commendable.
    Please convey my thanks also to young Jake, the Custodian of the Campfire 🔥.
    Btw, that was a great gesture by Geoff and his wife, donating half the proceeds of the Bash attendees camping ⛺️ fees towards your local Bell 🔔 Target Club and I wish you continuing success with that activity as well.
    Muchos Grassyass, Elvis McCartney🎶😎

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    Ps.. I think that what you reckon is an end cap off a moderator/silencer may be off the Relum Tornado I bought from you as it’s missing...probably jumped off in an attempt to locate the cocking lever pivot screw lost from my old Haenel!🥴

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    Are you back home now, Graeme, or enjoying an extended break south of the border?
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    NEXT EVENT :- May 17/18, 2025.........BOING!!

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    Sorry for the delay in responding Tony as I thought I’d already replied... that’s me back in Jockland today after visiting BBS friends near Cromer in Norfolk and East Riding in Yorkshire down near Spurn Head...the weather’s been great and I had a really enjoyable relaxing time with a suntan into the bargain.
    Many thanks to the various BBS friends I’ve spent time with over the last week or so, including the Bash and additional thanks to Jon (Shed Tuner), Nick (OLDSKOOLZZZ) and Unframed Dave for their respective ‘Courier’ services with bits and pieces.
    Back home now, today with 1067 miles on the clock🎶😎

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    Excellent!

    Sounds like a most enjoyable "all-round" trip, enrichened by some of the very special and friendly people making up the wonderful BBS.

    Sorry our paths couldn't meet on this occasion but I'll look forward to meeting up many more times in the future.
    THE BOINGER BASH AT QUIGLEY HOLLOW. MAKING GREAT MEMORIES SINCE 15th JUNE, 2013.
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    Aye Tony, that was a shame you were unable to manage down to Dave and Verity’s in sunny Norfolk and I hope you’re on the mend with your ticker.

    I’m rather cream crackered tonight, after tutoring an outdoor Photography walk locally this afternoon and the accumulative distance involved, 1067 miles on my 2020 Bash Odyssey, via Central Scotland down through Dumfries and Galloway, then down the M6 past Stoke to Long Eaton, near your neck of the woods, then down M1 past Leicester then left across the A14 past Huntingdon to join the A13-A47 to almost Great Yarmouth - where I went on holiday in 1971, resulting in (amongst other things) me drinking Guinness for the first time (with a jab of cider, poor man’s Black Velvet, as the Watneys Keg Red Barrel was so bad you’d be better off pouring it doon the shunkie and cutting oot the middle man - and watching a pub rock band with a great Bass Player in the ‘Crows Nest’ pub which definitely inspired me to play Bass Guitar... an instrument I really enjoy playing.
    So after being down at the Bash from Friday to Monday, I headed up 20 miles or so to near Cromer till Thursday and the weather was glorious, most of the time, camping at a Airgun BBS friend’s smallholding, including an adjacent orchard and lovely veg garden and a couple of ponies in the adjacent field... an absolute blissful paradise!

    On Thursday I made my way up through the excellent roads of Norfolk and Lincolnshire over the majestic Humber Bridge for the first time (with the Sat Nav taking me by the ‘scenic’ route!) then over to Spurn Head to collect a massive 12kw Multifuel/ Woodburner stove, courtesy of another BBS friend (‘Vulpinehunter’) a very talented engineer, who informed me today (Sunday) that he’d machined a replacement breech pivot/ cocking lever stepped shank screw to replace the one I lost a few days ago at the Bash from my 1922 Haenel MK VIII ( see previous post 425 above) and somehow shoehorning it into my wee motor for the Friday journey home.. the Stove, no’ the Haenel! ;>) ....up through rural Yorkshire onto the A1 near Knaresborough with a stop over at Scotch Corner ... somehow managing an overnight kip in the motor ( nice and warm wi the stove in the car!) and on enquiring at the Hotel reception early Saturday morning if they still had the Offenbach Grand Piano (in need of a serious repair when I’d last seen and played it a few years previously, as one of the legs was hanging off it) in the Dining Lounge, the receptionist then escorted me to where a few folk nearby were having breakfast to show me the now repaired piano and said it was okay for me to play it if nobody minded me tinkling the ivories at 8 o’clock in the morning.
    Not only was it okay to do so, but half an hour later, Paula the receptionist presented me with a £10 note, courtesy of an appreciative diner and graciously informed me that breakfast was ‘on the house’! No’ bad for rattling out Loch Lomond, Skye Boat Song, some Beatles’ tunes, 12 bar blues and a few of my own compositions.... I never realised back in the day as a schoolboy going to piano lessons, when all I wanted to do was play football for Rangers and Scotland, that it could lead to this.
    The full English Breakfast was excellent btw... Anybody driving around Scotch Corner In their travels should consider this place for a stopover or a break as it’s a beautiful hotel, an absolute Oasis, newly refurbished Art Deco style and the facilities are available to non- residents including Breakfast served 6am-10am weekdays and 7am-10am weekends. No guarantee of a freebie though unless you can knock out a few tunes on the Old Joanna..... I mean magnificent Offenbach Grand!

    So the final leg (no pun intended) was a Saturday morning jaunt over the A66 to Penrith (greatly improved in recent years) though still a bit of a nightmare for overnight driving with the number of lorries and blinding headlights that are normally encountered at that time, late night/ early morning.
    A break at Longtown near Gretna on the Border is almost always a compulsory stop now for me on my travels as it has the best Bakers, Butchers, Newsagents, Ironmongers, Outdoor Clothing Outfitters and Fish and Chip Shop in the country... no kiddin’ ...That wee Toon could show the way home to any High Street or Retail Park.

    So there we have it...another episode in my attempt to drive/ride along every piece of tarmac in the British Isles and Ireland.
    Hope to see you right as rain at a Bash sometime next year AGW.
    A’ the Best, Graeme
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    As always, a lovely story of a most memorable trip. Well done that man.

    Hope today sees you well rested and reboinged, er, I mean, refreshed.
    THE BOINGER BASH AT QUIGLEY HOLLOW. MAKING GREAT MEMORIES SINCE 15th JUNE, 2013.
    NEXT EVENT :- May 17/18, 2025.........BOING!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by VALE BOY View Post
    Aye Tony, that was a shame you were unable to manage down to Dave and VerityÂ’s in sunny Norfolk and I hope youÂ’re on the mend with your ticker.

    I’m rather cream crackered tonight, after tutoring an outdoor Photography walk locally this afternoon and the accumulative distance involved, 1067 miles on my 2020 Bash Odyssey, via Central Scotland down through Dumfries and Galloway, then down the M6 past Stoke to Long Eaton, near your neck of the woods, then down M1 past Leicester then left across the A14 past Huntingdon to join the A13-A47 to almost Great Yarmouth - where I went on holiday in 1971, resulting in (amongst other things) me drinking Guinness for the first time (with a jab of cider, poor man’s Black Velvet, as the Watneys Keg Red Barrel was so bad you’d be better off pouring it doon the shunkie and cutting oot the middle man - and watching a pub rock band with a great Bass Player in the ‘Crows Nest’ pub which definitely inspired me to play Bass Guitar... an instrument I really enjoy playing.
    So after being down at the Bash from Friday to Monday, I headed up 20 miles or so to near Cromer till Thursday and the weather was glorious, most of the time, camping at a Airgun BBS friendÂ’s smallholding, including an adjacent orchard and lovely veg garden and a couple of ponies in the adjacent field... an absolute blissful paradise!

    On Thursday I made my way up through the excellent roads of Norfolk and Lincolnshire over the majestic Humber Bridge for the first time (with the Sat Nav taking me by the ‘scenic’ route!) then over to Spurn Head to collect a massive 12kw Multifuel/ Woodburner stove, courtesy of another BBS friend (‘Vulpinehunter’) a very talented engineer, who informed me today (Sunday) that he’d machined a replacement breech pivot/ cocking lever stepped shank screw to replace the one I lost a few days ago at the Bash from my 1922 Haenel MK VIII ( see previous post 425 above) and somehow shoehorning it into my wee motor for the Friday journey home.. the Stove, no’ the Haenel! ;>) ....up through rural Yorkshire onto the A1 near Knaresborough with a stop over at Scotch Corner ... somehow managing an overnight kip in the motor ( nice and warm wi the stove in the car!) and on enquiring at the Hotel reception early Saturday morning if they still had the Offenbach Grand Piano (in need of a serious repair when I’d last seen and played it a few years previously, as one of the legs was hanging off it) in the Dining Lounge, the receptionist then escorted me to where a few folk nearby were having breakfast to show me the now repaired piano and said it was okay for me to play it if nobody minded me tinkling the ivories at 8 o’clock in the morning.
    Not only was it okay to do so, but half an hour later, Paula the receptionist presented me with a £10 note, courtesy of an appreciative diner and graciously informed me that breakfast was ‘on the house’! No’ bad for rattling out Loch Lomond, Skye Boat Song, some Beatles’ tunes, 12 bar blues and a few of my own compositions.... I never realised back in the day as a schoolboy going to piano lessons, when all I wanted to do was play football for Rangers and Scotland, that it could lead to this.
    The full English Breakfast was excellent btw... Anybody driving around Scotch Corner In their travels should consider this place for a stopover or a break as itÂ’s a beautiful hotel, an absolute Oasis, newly refurbished Art Deco style and the facilities are available to non- residents including Breakfast served 6am-10am weekdays and 7am-10am weekends. No guarantee of a freebie though unless you can knock out a few tunes on the Old Joanna..... I mean magnificent Offenbach Grand!

    So the final leg (no pun intended) was a Saturday morning jaunt over the A66 to Penrith (greatly improved in recent years) though still a bit of a nightmare for overnight driving with the number of lorries and blinding headlights that are normally encountered at that time, late night/ early morning.
    A break at Longtown near Gretna on the Border is almost always a compulsory stop now for me on my travels as it has the best Bakers, Butchers, Newsagents, Ironmongers, Outdoor Clothing Outfitters and Fish and Chip Shop in the country... no kiddinÂ’ ...That wee Toon could show the way home to any High Street or Retail Park.

    So there we have it...another episode in my attempt to drive/ride along every piece of tarmac in the British Isles and Ireland.
    Hope to see you right as rain at a Bash sometime next year AGW.
    AÂ’ the Best, Graeme
    Well there you go Graeme, remember what I said to you at the Bash? :

    "But I would drive 500 miles
    And I would drive 500 more
    Just to be the man who drives a thousand miles
    To BOING at your back door"

    A' the best to you too, Alastair

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    Quote Originally Posted by CLOGGER View Post

    To BOING at your back door"

    A' the best to you too, Alastair
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    Quote Originally Posted by CLOGGER View Post
    Well there you go Graeme, remember what I said to you at the Bash? :

    "But I would drive 500 miles
    And I would drive 500 more
    Just to be the man who drives a thousand miles
    To BOING at your back door"

    A' the best to you too, Alastair
    Guid yin Alistair... you’re on harmony vocals 🎤🎶😲 at the best Bash singsong btw!
    It was great tae see ye again... Cannae believe it’s six years when I met you at the 3rd Bash. September 2014. First of eight Bashes for me so far at the magical Quigley Hollow and now equally magical Quigley Broads*, when you kindly gave me that brilliant Rory Gallagher 🎸 CD which I played constantly driving back home 🏡.
    Thanks also to Nick OLDSKOOLZZZ for the positive ‘character reference’.. Cheers, Bud.... that’s a pint🍺 I owe ye! 😉 🎶😎

    * ‘Quigley Broads’ ... Guid description coined by the illustrious Antonio Lembo, I believe...
    Now don’t get the wrong idea, Trumpetier Dave... we can all imagine ye champin’ at the bit at the sight of that!🤣🤣

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    Quote Originally Posted by TonyL View Post
    No euphemisms intended

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