Welcome to our Blog, I hope you enjoy it. We are Neil and Pat

Since the kids left home(recommended) we have tried to do as much travelling as we can. We have toured parts of Europe on a motorcycle and started motorhoming a couple of years ago and have never looked back.

In a few years we are hoping to do some major travelling around the world.

By the way , Neil’s the one with the beard.

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Halloween 2010

This weekend we joined up with the old crowd , Kevin, Sonja, Lorraine and Andy at the East Essex CC Halloween meet at West Newland Farm, St Lawrence, Southminster.  This was a Halloween themed rally and involved lots of dressing up and scaring children.  Lorraine and Pat  were quite good at it.

On Friday we took part in the biggest game of Cluedo that I have seen which involved Lorraine becoming one of the characters and some detective work. We won this .

Saturday was great  weather and we spent most of the day preparing for the evening trick or treat event for the kids and the social night that followed. Jonathan joined us for the remainder of the weekend and prepared his pumpkin.

The girls created a dimly lit cave style lair in which to sit and entice the kids into before frigtening the S%*t out of them.

Some of the smaller kids looked genuinly disturbed by the experience.  

Brilliant weekend again

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Pevensey Bay East Sussex 2010

Brilliant weekend and the weather was unbelievable.

The usual crowd , Sonja and Kevin, Andy and Lorraine ( who seems nice ) and Dane and Hazel and their new puppy Charlie for the Saturday.

The aim of the weekend was to try sea fishing from the beach. I think we had grand ideas of eating what we caught on a big BBQ in the evening. Needless to say the local Fish and Chip shop did okay from us.

On the Saturday we entered the East Sussex Camping and Caravan Club local group Fishing Competition and I came joint last along with several others who also caught nothing.( including Pat )

Sunday was a bit better with a few small Whiting caught but too small to be edible.

Fantastic experience in a brilliant location .

Sunday, 3 October 2010

Ride To The Wall 2010

This fantastic Motorcycle event " Ride To The Wall" is an annual ride to raise funds for the upkeep of " The National Memorial Arboretum" in Staffordshire.

The day started at Drayton Manor Theme Park were about 10,000 motorcyclists assembled. It took 2 hours to get out of the car park

The ride was about 15 miles long and ended at the Arboretum.   A short  service took place to remember all the Soldiers that have died since the Second World War.

Very Moving

Hoar Park Fishing Meet 2010

This weekend was particularly busy, we tried to combine two events into one.

We decided that we wanted to take part in the Annual motorcycle ( Ride To The Wall event ) to raise funds for the upkeep of "The National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire and attend a joint Facts , Fun and Roamers Rally at Hoar Park, Ansley Near Nuneaton.

This blog entry is about the rally and I will add an additional entry regarding the Ride To The Wall event.

We drove up the rally in horrendous rain and when we turned up the place was flooded. Alan, one of the organisers  said " What ever you do don't drive on the grass".  Guess what, I totally ignored his advice and promptly got stuck up to my axles in mud and had to be towed out.

Friday night was a good laugh , we all got together in a barn and had a quiz night that had endless drinking forfeits . Our Chris seemed to get stung the most and ended up drinking about 6 shots of a very dubious cocktail.

Can't tell you how the fishing went as we went out for the day on the bike but Chris enjoyed it and came second.

Saturday night was very social but Sunday was back to heavy rain so everyone left early

Good weekend  with some great friends.