BoLOCs 10th Anniv run - 12th April

[Beachbum]

Plenty of time for people to clear their calendars and make sure they are available.
Plan is to meet up at 07:30 and then leave Bournemouth at approx 08:00, meet at 07:00, leave at 07:30. Make our way to Torbay, to meet up with DST, have Breakfast/Lunch, then make our way home.

Route is still TBD, suggestions welcome

Add your names.
Beachbum
DGR
Gooby

Edited to add updated route. We now meet DST in the ASDA Car Park
http://goo.gl/maps/pdGaM

Edited by Beachbum on Thursday 9th April 12:48

[Beachbum]

Is this the best we can do ? BoLOCs runs used to have high teens/low 20s participation.
If anyone has contacts for some of the old crew that no longer use PH, could they give them a nudge
Gooby, you used to be chief social secretary, got any contacts ?

[Beachbum]

m18oos said:

Hello Chaps

I came on a few of the runs right at the start of the bolocs, the North Weald activity days and some trackdays, good times

Anyway i am up for this but dont have the Elise anymore or any Lotus is that a problem?

Cheers
Jake

No problem. Plan realistically is to just get as many BoLOCs together in one place

[Beachbum]

Plenty of time for people to clear their calendars and make sure they are available.
Plan is to meet up at 07:30 and then leave Bournemouth at approx 08:00. Make our way to Torbay, to meet up with DST, have Breakfast/Lunch, then make our way home.

Route is still TBD, suggestions welcome

Add your names.
Beachbum
DGR
Gooby
fatwomble
Grinnders
Artist will join you at newton abbot for last leg
smudgers
Philygumbo
Tipper(contacted via Seloc)
M18oos

[Beachbum]

Does anyone have a copy of the old excel file we created, listing all the BoLOCs emails and phone numbers ?
Was hoping someone might have a copy and I can do a 1 off direct mail out to everyone, in the hope of getting people that have moved away from Lotus and have stopped reading PH/SELOC

Thanks

[Beachbum]

deepseatiger said:

Am Staying at the Royale in Gervis street tonight sneaking into Bournemouth

Sorry mate, only just saw this, would have come down and bought you a pint or 6

[Beachbum]

Beachbum said:

Does anyone have a copy of the old excel file we created, listing all the BoLOCs emails and phone numbers ?
Was hoping someone might have a copy and I can do a 1 off direct mail out to everyone, in the hope of getting people that have moved away from Lotus and have stopped reading PH/SELOC

Thanks

Someone kindly sent me a copy, so plan to send out a short email to about 50 people and hope they dont get annoyed by the invite. Hopefully we can get a few more to sign up.

[Beachbum]

Anyone fancy meetin up weekend after next 21st/22nd, to try and work out route ?
Thinking Breakfast somewhere with Wi-Fi. Could always use the Cafe we used to use on the Breakfast runs, near Boscombe Pier.

Any Volunteers ?

[Beachbum]

Philygumbo said:

I'm in, just say which day. how many replies to the e-mail?

Edited by Philygumbo on Thursday 12th March 09:24

Not that many 4 or 5, I think. 2 replied direct on here, 1 on SELOC I think and 1 or 2 replied to the email back to me.
Got loads of delivery failures, some were coming through 3 days after I sent it.

[Beachbum]

OK, Sunday 22nd March.... 09:30 ?? Reef Encounter Cafe(the one just up from Boscombe Pier)

I dont have a laptop I can bring, so any volunteers for that, or we will have to try and plan on a 7" Tablet.

[Beachbum]

Philygumbo said:

Ok Sunday it is then, will there just be 3 of us?
I'll bring me Macbook.

Looks like 3 or 4, if Gooby manages to get pass. 5 if you include Gooby Jnr.

I took a quick punt at a possible rout http://goo.gl/maps/RtyoP
110miles, 3.5hrs. Was hoping to avoid Exeter, but the ferry from Exmouth to Dawlish is foot passengers only.

we can discuss more Sunday, but give some thought to this prior, if you can.

Edited by Beachbum on Tuesday 17th March 12:39

[Beachbum]

Philygumbo said:

You know there is always a welcome with the BoLOCs
Yes Justin we did say breakfast.

Once a BoLOC, always a BoLOC I'm sure someone will come along in a while and EFA that comment
Amazing isnt it, mention the right words and people you dont hear from in Months appear.......Yes Breakfast.

[Beachbum]

So the Sunday Breakfast resulted in 5mins of discussing the route and 2hrs of catching up with each other. The outcome of which, is that we are all a lot older than we were, Fathers to kids we love loads and constantly drive us nuts.

So the only other suggested route was to go via Dorchester, then up to Crewekerne, Chard, Honiton, then A35 to Exeter, then sticking to the originally proposed route again. Having looked at this option, it means we end up on primary A roads for a lot more of the route. Two downsides as I see it (1) More Caravan traffic, (2) Not exactly the sort of roads the cars were intended for.
So unless anyone comes up with a very strong reason to go with this option, the plan is to stick with the originally planned route

http://goo.gl/maps/x653q.

One thing everyone did agree on, was that we need to leave earlier. So the plan is to meet at 07:00 and leave by 07:30

Will update the original post on this, so that all entries tally.
Any questions, give me a shout.

[Beachbum]

I rarely drive at warp speed, I leave that to Gooby. I am sure a few other will be trying to keep up with him, Grinnders springs to mind.

Not really sure of any obvious regrouping points along the route, but if anyone does know of any, put them up, on here and we can pick the best.

[Beachbum]

OrangeD said:

Hey Guys as of a week ago we are very excited to have a suitable steed again and it will be great to catch up.
We cannot attand the full run but will certainly see you out of Dorset.
Very much looking forward to it



Add your names.
Beachbum
DGR
Gooby
fatwomble
Grinnders
Artist will join you at newton abbot for last leg
smudgers
Philygumbo
Tipper(contacted via Seloc)
M18oos
TheDeadPrussian
Village Idiot (Toxic Frog)
OrangeD
MiniDiva

Talk about going full circle, isnt that what you started off with all those years ago ?

[Beachbum]

DST - where are we going to meet you ? Leave you to work out the best place. Needs to be able to accomodate 8+ cars and provide a decent breakfast

[Beachbum]

fatwomble said:

Any thoughts on stop points along the way? How about the following:

Wool Train Station - Station Rd?, Wool, Wareham, Dorset BH20 6DT (about 22 miles from the start)

Long Stay Car Park - Lyme Regis Charmouth Rd, Lyme Regis, Dorset DT7 3DW (about 60 miles from the start)

St. Bridget Garden Centre - Clyst St Mary, Exeter, Devon EX5 1AE (about 83 miles from the start)

As no one else has come up with alternatives and these seem logical, lets go with them

On a slightly related note, make sure you have a copy of the route and mark the stop points.

Edited by Beachbum on Wednesday 8th April 08:39

[Beachbum]

Twinpipe said:

Bloody Hell this is all a bit organised!! I'm sure it never used to be like this!! I'm gonna try and get down there to say hello but will be in the BMW so won't be tagging along for the drive unfortunately :-(

BMWs are allowed......just stay at the back and behave...............Oh look who I'm telling to behave

[Beachbum]

Updated route, that now takes into account that we meet up with DST at the Asda Car Park in Torquay
http://goo.gl/maps/pdGaM

Have also updated the the very first post on this thread to reflect the change to the end of the route.

Smudgers, no idea what time we will get to these checkpoints. We leave Bmth at 07:30, so it will depend on traffic and how manic Gooby & Grinnders decide to lead

[Beachbum]

Good to see everyone is ready.
Ginnders has flu, the real so, so may be a no-show, will depend on how he feels in he morning

See you all at 07:00

DST I'm guessing about 10:00'ish a ASDA car park. Wobble will cognac you if we are going to be much earlier/later than that

Dear god, my typing is getting worse. "Wobble will cognac"

Edited by Beachbum on Sunday 12th April 16:49