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Dinner Dance 2010

The Dinner Dance has now been booked at the Hilton, Bromsgrove, on Saturday 6 March 2010.

The hotel offers a gymnasium, pool and beauty treatments, which can be booked in advance on 0121 447 7888. The Hilton is easy to get to from either the M42 or M5. As in past years, there will be a three course meal, prize giving by our Chairman, John Messer, and dancing ‘til 1am.

Double rooms are £70.00 and Single rooms are £57.50 – please call the Hilton, Bromsgrove on 0121 447 7888 to book your room quoting Midland Rover Owners Club to ensure the special discounted rate.

Tickets are on sale now, £30.00 per person (the same price as the last couple of years).

Please call me (Sarah Barron) to book your tickets on 07951 968406 (evenings only) or email me . As in previous years, menu choices and payment will be required on booking your tickets. Remember - book early to avoid disappointment!

Sarah

We arrived on Thursday in order to set up the marquees with the help of John, Val, Richard and Ruth. No sorry we arrived on Thursday to fly some huge white kites!!!! Thank goodness for latching straps. I really thought we were going to have the 50 mile winds that Val had been promising, anyway luckily they weren’t too bad and by Friday morning the kites, no sorry, marquees were still where we had left them.

We woke up on Friday to sunshine – yippee I cried, ok so it wasn’t hot but you really couldn’t complain with the so-called summer we have had. A bit more setting up and organising for us and then around lunchtime the hordes started to arrive – an amazing 45 units to be precise. A busy day but with lots of helpers (all helping to eat the sweeties tut tut!!) then when Buster arrived with this wagon full of beer (a little later but we will forgive him) off to the beer tent we went.

Saturday and I could feel in the air the anticipation for the Gymkhana, some of you had done it before, which we think was about 10 years ago, and some hadn’t even heard of one, let alone done it. Phil Baker was seen at the far end of the field putting canes in and chuckling to himself setting out his devious games for us. At lunchtime a hoot on the horn to startle everyone from me and then a loud blast from JK and people started to wonder over to see what a Gymkhana was all about. Phil had laid out some fun games for us and everyone was well into the spirit of the event. There will be some photos on the website soon.

Saturday evening and the BBQ’s were lit and soon there were burgers, sausages etc. being cooked and munched. Shame it was a little bit chilly but that only made us all find a space in the marquee for the quiz. John Messer did another amazing quiz, there were quite a few baffled looks and a few smug moments. Steve (other half) was under pressure by Lynne for our team to win, but he had a bit of a poor start in round 1 but then after a couple of beers the answers starting coming. OK so we only got third, the winning team being Martin, Gail, Shirley etc.

Sunday the scenic drives went well with a bit more aggressive drive arranged by LRE at 1.30pm. My thanks go to LRE for doing the scenic drive – everyone seemed to really enjoy it. In the afternoon Andrew and Eleanor ran an excellent bike trial and all the children had a good time.

Monday and it was time to take the kites, whoops did it again, marquees down and it was just as windy as when we put them up – typical!

My thanks go to John Messer, Richard Smith, Jim Savage and John Kesterton for helping me with organising the event. Thanks also to John Messer for the quiz and Phil Baker for doing the Gymkhana, and to Andrew and Eleanor for doing the Bike Trial. Also, thank you Steve for all your help before and during the event, Charles for his excellent signing on skills and Lynne for teaching Charles how to sign on.

Hopefully we can run a similar event next year and look forward to seeing you all there.

Sarah