S Club Barn Farm Camping 2016
Discussion
Many thanks to Glen, and anyone else involved with the event. First time at the annual event and made to feel very welcome by everyone even though I now have a Chimaera.
Nice pub on Friday night with very good food a beer. Excellent company, and a good run out. The camp site is very good, and worth a trip back with the family for a few nights.
Despite the rain on the way there and back, the run and Friday night camp remained relatively dry.
Camping with the peacock for an alarm clock is an experience...
I asked my son who joined us for the event what he had learnt and remembered from the weekend. Lama's swallow and camels spit, and to fully enjoy a lama you need to bring your wellies (thanks Glen for that useful lesson). He learnt that a light on in a tent provides a nice shadow puppet effect, and tying your dogs lead to a tree behind a TVR and then starting the car up is a quick way to turn your white dog a sooty black colour. He also said he did not realise people could snore so loudly without waking themselves up.
Best overheard comment of the weekend by somebody on Saturday at the lunch stop when their £10 pulled pork cob (bap, roll or whatever you call it) arrived; How did you find your pork? I moved the lettuce leaf and there it was. I know its an old one - but very relevant.
Nice pub on Friday night with very good food a beer. Excellent company, and a good run out. The camp site is very good, and worth a trip back with the family for a few nights.
Despite the rain on the way there and back, the run and Friday night camp remained relatively dry.
Camping with the peacock for an alarm clock is an experience...
I asked my son who joined us for the event what he had learnt and remembered from the weekend. Lama's swallow and camels spit, and to fully enjoy a lama you need to bring your wellies (thanks Glen for that useful lesson). He learnt that a light on in a tent provides a nice shadow puppet effect, and tying your dogs lead to a tree behind a TVR and then starting the car up is a quick way to turn your white dog a sooty black colour. He also said he did not realise people could snore so loudly without waking themselves up.
Best overheard comment of the weekend by somebody on Saturday at the lunch stop when their £10 pulled pork cob (bap, roll or whatever you call it) arrived; How did you find your pork? I moved the lettuce leaf and there it was. I know its an old one - but very relevant.
Smokey Boyer said:
Best overheard comment of the weekend by somebody on Saturday at the lunch stop when their £10 pulled pork cob (bap, roll or whatever you call it) arrived; How did you find your pork? I moved the lettuce leaf and there it was.
Good to meet everyone (still not sure who's who in relation to there usernames on here) was a great run out around the peak district too, the scenery was fantastic & me an bob enjoyed a good mouthful of tyre smoke courtesy of greymrj!
, thanks again for organising it all GlennP.S this mysterious 'S' of mine will most definitely be present next time
Edited by greyhulk on Sunday 26th June 11:21
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Thanks again Glen, good do! Friends new and old, good site, good pubs and some of the very best driving roads available, what is not to like!!
I have to accept SmokeyBoyers sons comments, and possibly some responsibility as well.;) The night security man at the site complained to me that the level of snoring had kept the peacocks awake.
I am glad Greyhulk and Bobhon found the cloud of smoke to their taste, I am not sure Lawrie saw it quite the same way. A very reassuring brake test though....and I wasnt the only one to take to a bit of 'smoking'!!
I have to accept SmokeyBoyers sons comments, and possibly some responsibility as well.;) The night security man at the site complained to me that the level of snoring had kept the peacocks awake.
I am glad Greyhulk and Bobhon found the cloud of smoke to their taste, I am not sure Lawrie saw it quite the same way. A very reassuring brake test though....and I wasnt the only one to take to a bit of 'smoking'!!
Smokey Boyer said:
Many thanks to Glen, and anyone else involved with the event. First time at the annual event and made to feel very welcome.
....... tying your dogs lead to a tree behind a TVR and then starting the car up is a quick way to turn your white dog a sooty black colour.
Alfie the sentinel........... tying your dogs lead to a tree behind a TVR and then starting the car up is a quick way to turn your white dog a sooty black colour.
...cannot resist getting up close & personal to an S's twin pipes on start-up!
Dirty boy Alfie!
Thankyou all for your kind comments, it makes the organising all worthwhile. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. 
I'm sorry about the Cat & Fiddle being "closed until further notice", and I trust there were no little 'accidents' before the Ladybower lunch stop. Or big ones!
Note to self: Do not ply the participants with tea or coffee prior to departure
Also I must see what can be done to prevent huge ridiculously overloaded Romanian articulated pantechnicons from clogging up our lovely scenic narrow twisty bits.
I was wondering what was the driver trying to conceal by keeping so far off the proper trucking routes???
Hope you can all come along next year for the new route I have planned. I have just got to prove it first by test driving it once or twice. Sometimes life can be so cruel!
I'm sorry about the Cat & Fiddle being "closed until further notice", and I trust there were no little 'accidents' before the Ladybower lunch stop. Or big ones!
Note to self: Do not ply the participants with tea or coffee prior to departure
Also I must see what can be done to prevent huge ridiculously overloaded Romanian articulated pantechnicons from clogging up our lovely scenic narrow twisty bits.
I was wondering what was the driver trying to conceal by keeping so far off the proper trucking routes???
Hope you can all come along next year for the new route I have planned. I have just got to prove it first by test driving it once or twice.
Sometimes life can be so cruel! 
Many thanks Glen for a brilliant weekend. A great run out, but most fun was at the campsite (and The Red Lion and Druids' Inn). It was a joy to return to snail racing after so many years, and I maintain mine was the fastest even though he went in the wrong direction. The lightweight racing snails (slugs), however, were a disappointment.
Now, a teaser for the rest of you who weren't camping. Here we are pitching our tent, but what is Glen up to in the shrubbery? All answers to me on the back of a five pound note please...
Have fun,
Graham
Now, a teaser for the rest of you who weren't camping. Here we are pitching our tent, but what is Glen up to in the shrubbery? All answers to me on the back of a five pound note please...
Have fun,
Graham
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