The Older Gentleman

Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:

> So is it *absolutely* necessary to camp out on the site if the weather
> is truly horrendous? have alternatives been pushed around?

There is no hotel accommodation spare at Chimay on the weekend. Trust me
on this.

If it's pigging awful, then it's head for home and find a Campanile
hotel for the Saturday night, for me, at any rate.


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Brownz @ Work

The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> So is it *absolutely* necessary to camp out on the site if the
>> weather is truly horrendous? have alternatives been pushed around?
>
> There is no hotel accommodation spare at Chimay on the weekend. Trust
> me on this.
>
> If it's pigging awful, then it's head for home and find a Campanile
> hotel for the Saturday night, for me, at any rate.

Aye, they're normally bunched with a Premier Class so accommodating a big
bunch shouldn't be a prob.

<makes mental note to pack hotel guides, before departure in case of
emergency>


--
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mike. buckley

In message
<1i1fqfa.uge16b27gmo0N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, The
Older Gentleman <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> writes
>Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> So is it *absolutely* necessary to camp out on the site if the weather
>> is truly horrendous? have alternatives been pushed around?
>
>There is no hotel accommodation spare at Chimay on the weekend. Trust me
>on this.
>
>If it's pigging awful, then it's head for home and find a Campanile
>hotel for the Saturday night, for me, at any rate.
>
>

Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms, unless
that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I can cope
with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up with all that
only to abandon the Saturday anyway.

Anything going on UK wise this weekend?

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2 GPZ750 Turbo
http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk
BONY#38

ginge

mike. buckley wrote:
> In message
> <1i1fqfa.uge16b27gmo0N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, The
> Older Gentleman <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> writes
> >Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> So is it *absolutely* necessary to camp out on the site if the weather
> >> is truly horrendous? have alternatives been pushed around?
> >
> >There is no hotel accommodation spare at Chimay on the weekend. Trust me
> >on this.
> >
> >If it's pigging awful, then it's head for home and find a Campanile
> >hotel for the Saturday night, for me, at any rate.
> >
> >
>
> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms, unless
> that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I can cope
> with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up with all that
> only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>
> Anything going on UK wise this weekend?

More flooding, apparently.

Eddie

mike. buckley wrote:
>
> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms, unless
> that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I can cope
> with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up with all that
> only to abandon the Saturday anyway.

The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not worth
trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it throws at
you at the time.

> Anything going on UK wise this weekend?

Veggie Dave's party; bring your own chain.

--
Eddie eddie@deguello.org

http://www.last.fm/group/ukrm

ginge

Eddie wrote:
> mike. buckley wrote:
> >
> > Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms, unless
> > that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I can cope
> > with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up with all that
> > only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>
> The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not worth
> trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it throws at
> you at the time.

<considers packing airbed to use as a lilo.>

MikeH

Eddie wrote:
> mike. buckley wrote:
>>
>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms,
>> unless that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I
>> can cope with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up
>> with all that only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>
> The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not worth
> trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it throws at
> you at the time.
>
>> Anything going on UK wise this weekend?
>
> Veggie Dave's party; bring your own chain.

Couldn't you have posted a link here?

--
Mike H

Pip

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:16:00 +0100, ginge
<the.gingeREMOVE@THISgmail.com> wrote:

>Eddie wrote:

>> The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not worth
>> trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it throws at
>> you at the time.
>
><considers packing airbed to use as a lilo.>

Would that be a silver lilo?

--
Pip: B12

Hog

ginge wrote:
> Eddie wrote:
>> mike. buckley wrote:
>>>
>>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms,
>>> unless that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all.
>>> I can cope with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting
>>> up with all that only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>>
>> The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not worth
>> trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it throws
>> at you at the time.
>
> <considers packing airbed to use as a lilo.>

Well I guess waking up in Mauberge on Saturday will make the follow on
plan obvious.

--
Hog
'03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

ginge

Pip wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:16:00 +0100, ginge
> <the.gingeREMOVE@THISgmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Eddie wrote:
>
> >> The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not worth
> >> trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it throws at
> >> you at the time.
> >
> ><considers packing airbed to use as a lilo.>
>
> Would that be a silver lilo?

It erm... might.

Every clown has a silver lilo.

Pip

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:28:47 +0100, ginge
<the.gingeREMOVE@THISgmail.com> wrote:

>Pip wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:16:00 +0100, ginge
>> <the.gingeREMOVE@THISgmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Eddie wrote:
>>
>> >> The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not worth
>> >> trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it throws at
>> >> you at the time.
>> >
>> ><considers packing airbed to use as a lilo.>
>>
>> Would that be a silver lilo?
>
>It erm... might.
>
>Every clown has a silver lilo.

Perzackly.

I can just see you surging through the tumultuous flooded streets,
flashing through the spume, leaving those less fortunate in the
massive wake created by the propulsion power of your mighty rotating
clown shoes.

--
Pip: B12

ginge

Pip wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:28:47 +0100, ginge
> <the.gingeREMOVE@THISgmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Every clown has a silver lilo.
>
> Perzackly.
>
> I can just see you surging through the tumultuous flooded streets,
> flashing through the spume, leaving those less fortunate in the
> massive wake created by the propulsion power of your mighty rotating
> clown shoes.

I'd better load a copy of wipe-out onto my ipod, dude.

Colin Irvine

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:16:59 +0100, MikeH
<Mike.ukts@invalid.btinternet.com> squeezed out the following:

>Eddie wrote:
>> mike. buckley wrote:
>>>
>>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms,
>>> unless that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I
>>> can cope with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up
>>> with all that only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>>
>> The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not worth
>> trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it throws at
>> you at the time.
>>
>>> Anything going on UK wise this weekend?
>>
>> Veggie Dave's party; bring your own chain.
>
>Couldn't you have posted a link here?

What, and come a cropper?

--
Colin Irvine
YZF1000R BOF#33 BONY#34 COFF#06 BHaLC#5
http://www.colinandpat.co.uk

CT

Colin Irvine wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:16:59 +0100, MikeH
> <Mike.ukts@invalid.btinternet.com> squeezed out the following:
>
> > Eddie wrote:
> >> mike. buckley wrote:
> > > >
> >>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms,
> >>> unless that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at
> all. I >>> can cope with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in
> putting up >>> with all that only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
> >>
> >> The weather's changing so quickly at the moment that it's not
> worth >> trying to plan for it in advance, just deal with whatever it
> throws at >> you at the time.
> >>
> >>> Anything going on UK wise this weekend?
> >>
> >> Veggie Dave's party; bring your own chain.
> >
> > Couldn't you have posted a link here?
>
> What, and come a cropper?

Splitter!

--
Chris

mike. buckley

In message <MPG.2107e6f5216294d3989a7b@news.zen.co.uk>, ginge
<the.gingeREMOVE@THISgmail.com> writes
>mike. buckley wrote:
>> In message
>> <1i1fqfa.uge16b27gmo0N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, The
>> Older Gentleman <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> writes
>> >Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >> So is it *absolutely* necessary to camp out on the site if the weather
>> >> is truly horrendous? have alternatives been pushed around?
>> >
>> >There is no hotel accommodation spare at Chimay on the weekend. Trust me
>> >on this.
>> >
>> >If it's pigging awful, then it's head for home and find a Campanile
>> >hotel for the Saturday night, for me, at any rate.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms, unless
>> that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I can cope
>> with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up with all that
>> only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>>
>> Anything going on UK wise this weekend?
>
>More flooding, apparently.


Forecast much better now, "partly cloudy" for Charleroi on Sat and Sun.
Final decision tomorrow.


--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2 GPZ750 Turbo
http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk
BONY#38

Hog

mike. buckley wrote:

> Forecast much better now, "partly cloudy" for Charleroi on Sat and
> Sun. Final decision tomorrow.

Hotel booked, I'm going, final.

--
Hog
'03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

mike. buckley

In message <5g6pgrF3e39hvU1@mid.individual.net>, Hog
<hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> writes
>mike. buckley wrote:
>
>> Forecast much better now, "partly cloudy" for Charleroi on Sat and
>> Sun. Final decision tomorrow.
>
>Hotel booked, I'm going, final.
>

RD?

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2 GPZ750 Turbo
http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk
BONY#38

Hog

mike. buckley wrote:
> In message <5g6pgrF3e39hvU1@mid.individual.net>, Hog
> <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> writes
>> mike. buckley wrote:
>>
>>> Forecast much better now, "partly cloudy" for Charleroi on Sat and
>>> Sun. Final decision tomorrow.
>>
>> Hotel booked, I'm going, final.
>>
>
> RD?

Ducati. It should have been BMW but it's trapped on an Island

--
Hog
'03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

Higgins

mike. buckley wrote:
<Grim Chimay weather>
> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms, unless
> that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I can cope
> with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up with all that
> only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>
I'm taking the view that it's booked and I'm going, accepting that I may
need to go and find some Belgian Independence Day celebrations instead.

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Higgins
<the.best.names.are.gone@gmail.com> typed
>mike. buckley wrote:
><Grim Chimay weather>
>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms,
>>unless that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I
>>can cope with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up
>>with all that only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>>
>I'm taking the view that it's booked and I'm going, accepting that I
>may need to go and find some Belgian Independence Day celebrations
>instead.

Well, sorry, but I'm crying off.

I have a list of valid reasons / excuses, but I know you're not
interested, so let's just settle on "I'm a big girl's blouse".

TOG, can you cancel the hotel reservation for me please? Unless anyone
else wants it.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando

Bear

In article <jn11n4-gmk.ln1@deguello.org>, Eddie says...
> mike. buckley wrote:

> > Anything going on UK wise this weekend?
>
> Veggie Dave's party; bring your own chain.

heh. Are you going along to that?
--
Bear

The Older Gentleman

Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:

>
> TOG, can you cancel the hotel reservation for me please?

Oh Christ....


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SD

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:43:06 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
<wun@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:


>I have a list of valid reasons / excuses, but I know you're not
>interested, so let's just settle on "I'm a big girl's blouse".

You really are right useless lump, aren't you?
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Andy Bonwick

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:22:40 +0100, Higgins
<the.best.names.are.gone@gmail.com> wrote:

>mike. buckley wrote:
><Grim Chimay weather>
>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms, unless
>> that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all. I can cope
>> with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting up with all that
>> only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>>
>I'm taking the view that it's booked and I'm going, accepting that I may
>need to go and find some Belgian Independence Day celebrations instead.

We'll be going no matter what the weather does. We've got a tent, two
fast motorbikes and Europe awaits us.

Wicked Uncle Nigel

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD
<salad.dodger@dsl.pipex.com> typed
>On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:43:06 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
><wun@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>I have a list of valid reasons / excuses, but I know you're not
>>interested, so let's just settle on "I'm a big girl's blouse".
>
>You really are right useless lump, aren't you?


<shuffles feet>

Yes.

Sorry.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando

platypus

Andy Bonwick wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:22:40 +0100, Higgins
> <the.best.names.are.gone@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> mike. buckley wrote:
>> <Grim Chimay weather>
>>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now - rain and storms,
>>> unless that changes I can't even see me Col and Dan coming at all.
>>> I can cope with one day heavy rain, but I see no point in putting
>>> up with all that only to abandon the Saturday anyway.
>>>
>> I'm taking the view that it's booked and I'm going, accepting that I
>> may need to go and find some Belgian Independence Day celebrations
>> instead.
>
> We'll be going no matter what the weather does. We've got a tent, two
> fast motorbikes and Europe awaits us.

Hit it.

--
platypus

"fastidious and precise"

platypus

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>
> Well, sorry, but I'm crying off.

<packs suncream>

--
platypus

"fastidious and precise"

Higgins

mike. buckley wrote:
> In message
> <1i1fqfa.uge16b27gmo0N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, The
> Older Gentleman <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> writes
>> Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> So is it *absolutely* necessary to camp out on the site if the weather
>>> is truly horrendous? have alternatives been pushed around?
>>
>> There is no hotel accommodation spare at Chimay on the weekend. Trust me
>> on this.
>>
>> If it's pigging awful, then it's head for home and find a Campanile
>> hotel for the Saturday night, for me, at any rate.
>>
>>
>
> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now -

Just watched the forecast on VTM (Belgian telly). Friday looks grim, Sat
not too bad and Sunday's a bit rough again.

Hog

Higgins wrote:
> mike. buckley wrote:
>> In message
>> <1i1fqfa.uge16b27gmo0N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, The
>> Older Gentleman <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> writes
>>> Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So is it *absolutely* necessary to camp out on the site if the
>>>> weather is truly horrendous? have alternatives been pushed around?
>>>
>>> There is no hotel accommodation spare at Chimay on the weekend.
>>> Trust me on this.
>>>
>>> If it's pigging awful, then it's head for home and find a Campanile
>>> hotel for the Saturday night, for me, at any rate.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Forecast has got even worse for Charleroi now -
>
> Just watched the forecast on VTM (Belgian telly). Friday looks grim,
> Sat not too bad and Sunday's a bit rough again.

Anyone got crash space on Thursday night a bit nearer Dover than Leeds?
it could be a 22 or 23:00 arrival mind. On reflection I don't fancy
flogging all the way to Maubeuge in one hop from Leed on Friday and it
would be nice to catch an early'ish Friday train.

Here, or an obvious demung on email or 079two9 40227six

--
Hog
'03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

Champ

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:43:06 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
<wun@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:

>Well, sorry, but I'm crying off.
>
>I have a list of valid reasons / excuses, but I know you're not
>interested, so let's just settle on "I'm a big girl's blouse".

You'd better put that in your sig, you useless lump.

This is two trips in a row you've cancelled now. Sort it out.
--
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ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

wessie

"Hog" <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote in news:5g7l4mF3evr6kU1
@mid.individual.net:


>
> Anyone got crash space on Thursday night a bit nearer Dover than Leeds?

BGN might be accommodating, biker boy.

--
wessie at tesco dot net

BMW R1150GS

Hog

wessie wrote:
> "Hog" <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote in news:5g7l4mF3evr6kU1
> @mid.individual.net:
>
>
>>
>> Anyone got crash space on Thursday night a bit nearer Dover than
>> Leeds?
>
> BGN might be accommodating, biker boy.

Isn't he lost in WoW somewhere or does he wield a flaming big chopper
IRL too.

--
Hog
'03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

Eddie

Higgins wrote:
>
> Just watched the forecast on VTM (Belgian telly). Friday looks grim,

.... riding, putting up tent...

> Sat not too bad

.... drinking beer, watching motorbikes, drinking more beer...

and Sunday's a bit rough again.

.... striking tent, riding.

Perfect.

--
Eddie eddie@deguello.org

http://www.last.fm/group/ukrm

wessie

"Hog" <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote in news:5g7lngF3flanoU1
@mid.individual.net:

> wessie wrote:
>> "Hog" <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote in news:5g7l4mF3evr6kU1
>> @mid.individual.net:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Anyone got crash space on Thursday night a bit nearer Dover than
>>> Leeds?
>>
>> BGN might be accommodating, biker boy.
>
> Isn't he lost in WoW somewhere or does he wield a flaming big chopper
> IRL too.
>

Are you saying you have ample accommodation too?

--
wessie at tesco dot net

BMW R1150GS

Eddie

Hog wrote:
>
> I don't care about weather, I enjoy riding in heavy rain, camping in it
> is another matter. B&B rocks.

Pffft. One of life's great pleasures is bacon sandwiches and hot coffee
inside a dry tent when it's pissing it down outside.

--
Eddie eddie@deguello.org

http://www.last.fm/group/ukrm

Hog

Eddie wrote:
> Hog wrote:
>>
>> I don't care about weather, I enjoy riding in heavy rain, camping in
>> it is another matter. B&B rocks.
>
> Pffft. One of life's great pleasures is bacon sandwiches and hot
> coffee inside a dry tent when it's pissing it down outside.

I agree completely. I have an 8 man Kyam for that. The 2 man is another
matter.

--
Hog
'03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

The Older Gentleman

Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:

> Anyone got crash space on Thursday night a bit nearer Dover than Leeds?
> it could be a 22 or 23:00 arrival mind.

*Waves*


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