WorkTOG

OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the weekend
before the EOSM: that is, Friday 3 - Sunday 5 September. Arrive
Friday, depart Sunday, 2 nights as ever.

Venue - probably the Ardennes. Still working on that.

Costs - as before. Roughly ukp120-130 per head, based on 2 people
sharing, including ferries and four-course dinner both nights. Booze
extra.

Small print: once I've confirmed the booking with the hotel and P&OSL,
no refunds. Positively zilch. If you hand over your dosh and find you
can't go, then too bad. Dinner is based on what I choose for everyone
to eat. Special dietary needs (veggie, kosher, etc) can be handled but
"I don't like fish" or "I only eat vegetables if they're stir-fried"
will be treated with disdain.

There may be some single room space available. Otherwise we're looking
at a maximum of about three dozen. If the Ardennes hotel blows out,
I'll find somewhere else: possibly somewhere we've been before. Max
distance from Calais will be 200 miles.

First-come first-served basis. Email me at chateau dot murray at dsl
dot pipex dot com if you definitely want in. Not "I'm definitely
interested" or "I think I can make that" but "Yeah, I'm up for this".

For anyone who hasn't done a French Run - they can be quite fun.
There's always someone to take the piss out of (Big Tony for his epic
Petrol Muppet award, Prawn for breaking down and not flagging down one
of the 20 bikes that streamed past him, Tim for managing to get
stranded on the wrong side of the Seine, in full view of the hotel on
the opposite bank, and no immediate means of crossing the river....)
and the food and drink are usually quite good.

dwb

WorkTOG wrote:

> Small print: once I've confirmed the booking with the hotel and P&OSL,
> no refunds. Positively zilch. If you hand over your dosh and find you
> can't go, then too bad.

Yes, though to be fair, P&O are more then happy to refund, even up to day of
sailing.
The problem was that the request had to be from you/needed original payment
details.

I, FWIW, don't view this in quite the same way as "I can't come, do all the
work for me and get a refund".

Anyway, lesson learnt, water under the bridge etc.

Cab

WorkTOG bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:


> First-come first-served basis. Email me at chateau dot murray at dsl
> dot pipex dot com if you definitely want in. Not "I'm definitely
> interested" or "I think I can make that" but "Yeah, I'm up for this".
>

I'll email you tonight, if all is okay and once I confirm that I can
change the call out rota in work.

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Big Tony

"WorkTOG" <chateau.murray@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:a0258999.0406210618.1c4c4e5c@posting.google.c om...
> OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the weekend
> before the EOSM: that is, Friday 3 - Sunday 5 September. Arrive
> Friday, depart Sunday, 2 nights as ever.
>
> For anyone who hasn't done a French Run - they can be quite fun.
> There's always someone to take the piss out of (Big Tony for his epic
> Petrol Muppet award, Prawn for breaking down and not flagging down one
> of the 20 bikes that streamed past him, Tim for managing to get
> stranded on the wrong side of the Seine, in full view of the hotel on
> the opposite bank, and no immediate means of crossing the river....)
> and the food and drink are usually quite good.

Damn. No chance of another Petrol Muppet award as I am at a wedding that
weekend. Someone else will have to keep score until next year.


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Paul Carmichael

WorkTOG wrote:
> OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the weekend
> before the EOSM: that is, Friday 3 - Sunday 5 September. Arrive
> Friday, depart Sunday, 2 nights as ever.

I´m tempted. Quite a run from down here though. What´s the price for
hotel only_ (damned spic keyboard) ?

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Doesnotcompute

Big Tony said:

>Damn

Whilst you're here - let CGSean know about this and EOSM will ya.... he
claimed you never told him of the spring french run......

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porl

"Paul Carmichael" <ng@wibbleypants.com> wrote in message
news:40D700AD.2090302@wibbleypants.com...
> WorkTOG wrote:
> > OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the weekend
> > before the EOSM: that is, Friday 3 - Sunday 5 September. Arrive
> > Friday, depart Sunday, 2 nights as ever.
>
> I´m tempted. Quite a run from down here though. What´s the price for
> hotel only_ (damned spic keyboard) ?

Come with us you fooker. You're not old enough for a TOG run.

Ace

On 21 Jun 2004 07:18:00 -0700, chateau.murray@btinternet.com (WorkTOG)
wrote:

>OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the weekend
>before the EOSM: that is, Friday 3 - Sunday 5 September. Arrive
>Friday, depart Sunday, 2 nights as ever.
>
>Venue - probably the Ardennes. Still working on that.

Sounds good - might make it up there - not quite as far as Normandy
last year. Maybe one or two folks[1] might like to combine it with a
second[2] party down here?

>First-come first-served basis. Email me at chateau dot murray at dsl
>dot pipex dot com if you definitely want in. Not "I'm definitely
>interested" or "I think I can make that" but "Yeah, I'm up for this".

Presumably you'll post again when you've got a definite venue in mind?
I'll need to take advice[3] on this.


[1] Looking at Adie, if she's reading.
[2] For me, not neccessarily anyone who might come.
[3] == get permission

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Doesnotcompute

Ace said:

>Maybe one or two folks[1] might like to combine it with a
>second[2] party down here?

Hmm, I have the rest of that week off, preceding the EOSM, so could well
be up for that, if some others fancy it. You coming back for EOSM?

Would the TOG tours ferry tickets be useable that much after their alloted
date/time?

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Ace

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:20:35 -0400, "Doesnotcompute"
<dncDELETE@ukbodyart.org> wrote:

>Ace said:
>
>>Maybe one or two folks[1] might like to combine it with a
>>second[2] party down here?
>
>Hmm, I have the rest of that week off, preceding the EOSM, so could well
>be up for that, if some others fancy it. You coming back for EOSM?

Mmm, so that's the following weekend, is it? I might be tempted.

>Would the TOG tours ferry tickets be useable that much after their alloted
>date/time?

I doubt it. Certainly not for me, going in the opposite direction, as
it were. Oh, you mean you'd be sticking around in France for all that
week? Possibly, then. Check with TOG.


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Doesnotcompute

Ace said:

>Mmm, so that's the following weekend, is it?

quote tog: "OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the
weekend before the EOSM"

>I might be tempted.

Good good. There's crash space at mine (30 mins from London) if no-one
more interesting offers you.

>Oh, you mean you'd be sticking around in France for all
>that week? Possibly, then. Check with TOG

not necessarily all, but some, assuming your intended part is inbetween
the two weekends.


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Paul Carmichael

porl wrote:
> "Paul Carmichael" <ng@wibbleypants.com> wrote in message
> news:40D700AD.2090302@wibbleypants.com...
>
>>WorkTOG wrote:
>>
>>>OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the weekend
>>>before the EOSM: that is, Friday 3 - Sunday 5 September. Arrive
>>>Friday, depart Sunday, 2 nights as ever.
>>
>>I´m tempted. Quite a run from down here though. What´s the price for
>>hotel only_ (damned spic keyboard) ?
>
>
> Come with us you fooker. You're not old enough for a TOG run.
>

Hell, I´m almost as old as the man himself. I´ve been on several
TOGTours already. And you know perfectly well, I´ll be in England when
you´re jollying out here.

Back to the pool.

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Adrienne M Jenn

On 21 Jun 2004 07:18:00 -0700, chateau.murray@btinternet.com (WorkTOG)
wrote:

>First-come first-served basis. Email me at chateau dot murray at dsl
>dot pipex dot com if you definitely want in. Not "I'm definitely
>interested" or "I think I can make that" but "Yeah, I'm up for this".

<emailed> you should know about my food awkwardness by now.

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The Older Gentleman

Doesnotcompute <dncDELETE@ukbodyart.org> wrote:

> Would the TOG tours ferry tickets be useable that much after their alloted
> date/time?

No


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Colin Irvine

On 21 Jun 2004 07:18:00 -0700, chateau.murray@btinternet.com (WorkTOG)
squeezed out the following:

>OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the weekend
>before the EOSM: that is, Friday 3 - Sunday 5 September. Arrive
>Friday, depart Sunday, 2 nights as ever.
>
>Venue - probably the Ardennes. Still working on that.

If it is, and there's a room free, Pat and I will stay the Saturday
night only. It's the last day of our fortnight round western France
and the Pyrenees and we'd planned to stop overnight in or around the
Ardennes en route to the Amsterdam ferry.

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Ace

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:56:16 -0400, "Doesnotcompute"
<dncDELETE@ukbodyart.org> wrote:

>Ace said:
>
>>Mmm, so that's the following weekend, is it?
>
>quote tog: "OK, I've found my tuit, and the autumn French Run will be the
>weekend before the EOSM"

you expect me to read?

>>I might be tempted.
>
>Good good. There's crash space at mine (30 mins from London) if no-one
>more interesting offers you.

Thanks for the offer, but if I do come over to the UK during that week
I'll prolly look up my mate in Leicester and my family in Derby.

>>Oh, you mean you'd be sticking around in France for all
>>that week? Possibly, then. Check with TOG
>
>not necessarily all, but some, assuming your intended part is inbetween
y^ ?
>the two weekends.

Yeah, I guess. TBH I didn't really give it that much thought when I
posted it. Now I've got to work out whether I can take two weeks off
for biking stuff this year before I can commit any further. Gotta find
some good holiday to send Jude off on, then I'll be OK :-)

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Eddie

The Older Gentleman wrote:

< snip >
> If you have a point to raise with that, do so Otherwise, this exchange
> is beginning to irritate me rather. So that's my last word on it.

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