Wirral Meet

Walter Smith · Post by **Walter Smith** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:27 pm

Hi to everyone who attended the Wirral meet this week-end.
What a great turn-out! When I thought of bringing you all to Wirral I thought I might attract half a dozen Bongos - what a turn out and what a friendly crowd, what wonderful weather. The field was ideal for us, Harry's marquee made a good gathering place for us all. The Master gourmet B.B.Qers, the Angus beef burgers and deli sausages washed down with copious amounts of beer and wines. Excellent cabaret by Mike, backed up by some wonderful singing from the rest of us!

I nearly forgot to mention our Saturday morning expedition to the Dungeons. We arrived without any problems. Some of our hikers were looking a little tired so I tried to take them back with a short cut ( Betty would have warned you about my navigating skills if she had been with us ) we got within viewing distance of our Bongos- but the path ended, so we had to retrace our steps. We eventually made it back to camp. The expeditionery force clubbed together to give me a down payment on a sat-nav!

The gathering came from far and wide, Cumbria, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Staffs and Merseyside, however Sue and Pete from Kent were easily our distance travellers and consequently won the bottle of wine that I was offering. A couple of Bongo owners were paying a casual visit to the country park and were absolutely gobsmacked to see a glorious line-up of Bongos, they came in to see us and said how dis- appointed they were not to have seen the postings on our gathering ( it pays to keep accessing the club site! )
I have sent cards to Gerry White who provided us with the field, and to the staff of White's Farm Shop thanking them for helping us have such a good week-end.

Our thanks to everyone who contributed to a great gathering, it well and truly made up for our missing this year's Bongo Bash.

Kind regards,

Walter.
P.S. If anyone wants to buy a Cockerel

Walter Smith · Post by **Walter Smith** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:56 pm

Add Noth Wales to our list of attendees! apologies to our Welsh friends for the oversight. It was nice to see you again.

Best Wishes,

Walter.[/b]

mikeonb4c · Post by **mikeonb4c** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:34 pm

Can we do it again please Walter, please, please.

Meanwhile (to the tune of There's no business like Showbusiness):

There's no chicken like roast chicken, it's like no chicken I know
Everything about it is delightful
Makes a change from noisy cocks cos they're just frightful
etc. etc.

Peg leg Pete · Post by **Peg leg Pete** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:38 pm

trekie · Post by **trekie** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:44 pm

what a brilliant weekend!!, thanks to walter welldone and best wishes to your good lady. thanks steve for the spare wheel and i got that tyre sorted out when i got home, it was actually in much worse condition than it looked. it was great renewing friendships and making lots of new ones. jan and i cant wait til we all get to meet up again.

best wishes everybody

alex and jan.

NeilT · Post by **NeilT** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:24 pm

Thank you!!

Walter, and excellent venue and so good of you for organising everything, also nice to meet up.
From Sandra and myself, we had a great time... the kids loved it, yes they were the one in swimming stuff when it got cold, I promise that is what they wanted to wear!
Think we were the last up, and we were also the very last to leave the field.
Was nice to be back on the Wirral, a lovely place, and on the way home I had to stop of in Liverpool to do some business, so worked well.

Just got to dry out the awning this week...

The marque was great , what a metting place... and the BBQ's I was stuffed..

To those that we may not have chatted to, there will be another time, but all in all a huge thumbs up weekend..

THANK YOU...

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:51 pm

Must admit it was funny seeing the kids in swimwear and wellies ,at least they were prepared for the good weather fri and sat and the rain on sun. and as usual they seemed to take a fancy to my two dogs blue and ozzie (get it daveblueozzie oh well please yourself).

NeilT · Post by **NeilT** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:33 am

daveblueozzie, and they loved your burgers

bigdaddycain · Post by **bigdaddycain** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:06 am

Hi all!
Just got back from work...

What a top weekend!

Many thank you's to Walter for organizing such a great event, (and his gracious wife for going out of her way to welcome me and the anklebiters)

Thanks to mike for the impromptu strumming performance!
(Did you like the way you got surrounded when you tried to leave?

)

Many thanks to Andy and Denise for the blackpool rock

(Did you get home ok?)

A "big up" to Daveblueozzy for cooking our food (and the beers

)

A thank you to Dabongo for the grub and the beers

A thank you to you've been bongo'd for the bass

A thankyou to Dreamwarrior uk for the kite flying entertainment
(and the remote start tips

)

A big thank you to Harry for the use of his huge tent/marquee
(and the brews!)

A big thank you to sue (of peter and sue fame) for the parking tickets,and you also get the "Good sport"award too sue

Thanks to NeilT for the unidentified flying objects.

Thanks to peter (humphrey) for his Gracious hospitality.

Thanks also to Waycar8,Dave n'erin,Neil (Diamond) Alex n' Jan,willie the pimp,for partaking in the bongo extravaganza

Apologies if i missed anybody

I,d just like to say that my kids haven't shut up about this wonderful weekend

I think its going to be one of those memorable events that will stay with them for years...

And in case you are reading this, thanks for the waves from the passing silver bongolow who was wondering what the hell was going on in that field! If you had come in, you'd have been made very welcome

Er... did i say thanks?

mikeonb4c · Post by **mikeonb4c** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:18 am

You summed it up there bigdaddy. Thanks from me too to all those on BigD's list whose parts I hadnt recognised (if I'd only known I'd bitten into one of DaveBlueOzzies beefburgers). Hold on, I can feel a 'sneeze' coming on:

AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Matron

Dave up north · Post by **Dave up north** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:21 pm

You crazy guys, you crazy guys.

Loved the meet.

Wayne... Stop trying to pimp me out.

Well done Mike on b4c for winning the talent show.
Well done Amanda for winning the tidiest arse competition. (see photo's above)
Well done Sue for not only winning the limbo dance off, but also for showing us newbies all about swinging.

Looking forward to the next one,

All t best,

Big Dave

AndAndDen · Post by **AndAndDen** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:58 pm

Crikey Daveblueozzie what did you put in them Sausages and kebabs.

mikeonb4c · Post by **mikeonb4c** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:08 pm

Sounds like I left a little too early Dave

Did you get my PM AndandDen (I suspect BF PMs dont alwys go through properly, hence the asking).

Fabulous weekend - really keen to do it again. I'd definitely be up for that Windermere site Dave - maybe early Autumn, when the leaves of brown coming tumbling down. Remember? September? In Maine. Ooh yes, wasnt it?

No you DUCKHEAD - in the Lake District

Pete & Sue · Post by **Pete & Sue** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:10 pm

A great big thanks for your welcome; it's good to bongo!

We really enjoyed the 3 hour quick stroll with Walter, so invigorating.

The kites were amazing.

Sue got quite few traffic infringements into her notebook, quite a result, and she still wants a Traveller 3.

All in all a fantastic Bongo meet.

Thanks for a wonderful weekend, hope to see you all again.

AndAndDen · Post by **AndAndDen** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:13 pm

Mike no not got your pm. Pete and Sue glad you managed how to put the photos on .