Hello out there!

The excitement is growing!

The date is getting ever closer!

The sun is shining – what more could we ask for? I know a “Party” at Eastnor, August Bank Holiday.

Party in the Park is closer than ever – so book your pitches for a fun packed weekend for all the family. As I said last month there will be lots to keep us happy including:

• Gymkhana, Bike Trial, Scenic Drive, John (the Chairman’s) Quiz and Buster’s Beer in the beer tent. Yippee!!
• Buster’s real ale, ciders, wine and soft drinks all £1.
• BBQ Saturday and Sunday nights for all to muck in. We have two BBQ’s which will be lit ready for around 6pm (may be earlier). Please come along and join in a big group party BBQ, bring your food and show off your culinary expertise, or just throw your burgers and sausage on the BBQ. Let’s get the MROC partying together.

There are rumours around the club of vehicles being altered, people are trying to get arm extensions and practising Croquet, eggs being balanced on bonnets, air suspension being fitted to 90’s and 110’s!!!!! There are even rumours of people practising in the dark so no one can see their latest tack ticks. It’s even been said that there is more preparation for the Party in the Park than any other event. Yes! I hear you cry “It’s Gymkhana Time” yippee!

Looking forward to seeing you at Eastnor in the Rover field on Friday 27 August.

Please contact Leigh Heaven to book your pitch.

If you would like to book ahead for the scenic drive then either call, text or email me (01527 543159, 07951 968406 (evenings only) and ).

Happy holidays!

Sarah 
 

Hi everyone

The Dinner Dance 2010 – Hilton Bromsgrove.

We had a brilliant time this year, the Hilton was a new venue, and as far as I can remember we have never been there before. The hotel was very accommodating and the food was very good. The hotel rooms were lovely as well – just a pity we didn’t have enough time in them – far too busy socialising in the bar.

Thank you to John Messer for his excellent speech and for Tony O’Connor for organising the trophies.

Hopefully we can get some photos on the website – there is a particularly funny one of John Messer and Leigh Heaven. Oh and I wish that I had a camcorder when John and Mike did there flying act round the tables – if you don’t understand then you should have been there – hysterical or what!!!!

Also, a big “Thank you” to all who came – without you the Dinner Dance would not have been an excellent night.

To those of you who didn’t come – please try it out next year, especially if you had won a trophy. It’s such a shame to see all those lovely trophies just waiting to be collected – and all the effort Tony put in to getting them engraved and polished.

So to next year’s Dinner Dance – whilst it’s still fresh in our minds – does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, comments, for next year? Please feel free to email me: .

Thanks

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