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Ooooh, nice water splash pic. :D :D

And in photo Number 1 (http://www.mini2.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=47787) where on earth has that arm come from sticking through my roof?!

:D :eek:

I am still buzzing....what a day!!!!

I can't believe I have not done this before. It's the most fun you can have and still have your clothes on!!! I was over the moon to meet up with so many people.....Phanny especially. Many many thanks for everyone who looked after me.....Scooby and Thelma, ta lovvies!!! Met up with the Birdies......lovely they are too!! Then Janey and her co pilots....thank god for you, who knows where I would have ended up! Last but not least Phanny and hubbie, cheif naviagtors....Hurrah!!!! I am sorry but I have forgotten everyones names but then that's me....brain like a sieve. Its been just brill and oooh I dunno I am overwhelmed...pass the tissues please

Oh and not forgetting the organisers.....a million "thank yous" When can we do it again pwetty pwease???

Phanny....I love that piccy....its "so Minnie"

Oooooh.

Almost forgot. Thanks to DK for the food! :D :D

Ooooh, nice water splash pic. :D :D

And in photo Number 1 (http://www.mini2.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=47787) where on earth has that arm come from sticking through my roof?!

:D :eek:

Cool pic eh !

As for the arm, maybe it's a hidden mini accessory. :rolleyes:

I am still buzzing....what a day!!!!

I can't believe I have not done this before. It's the most fun you can have and still have your clothes on!!! I was over the moon to meet up with so many people.....Phanny especially. Many many thanks for everyone who looked after me.....Scooby and Thelma, ta lovvies!!! Met up with the Birdies......lovely they are too!! Then Janey and her co pilots....thank god for you, who knows where I would have ended up! Last but not least Phanny and hubbie, cheif naviagtors....Hurrah!!!! I am sorry but I have forgotten everyones names but then that's me....brain like a sieve. Its been just brill and oooh I dunno I am overwhelmed...pass the tissues please

Oh and not forgetting the organisers.....a million "thank yous" When can we do it again pwetty pwease???

Phanny....I love that piccy....its "so Minnie"

That's what I like. Gushing enthusiasm. :D

Cool pic eh !
I just wish I knew who that is on the other side so I could have a matching pair of me playing in the water!

:D

(Speak up snapper on the bank!).

:D

Great day out - thanks Bob, even if I managed to go wrong right from the start - just not as badly as last year :D

Nice to put some more faces to user names - Aiden, Frodo & Intrepidmini especially, plus finding out who the rest of the Stelvio crew were - S&M & Rick

Now for the pics:

From the night before:
1. MartinL tries on some new head gear whilst waiting for the Mexican food to arrive
2. How much am I bid for this lovely picture of a MINI wheel?
3. MINI Babe with duckie
4. Another MINI Babe
5. Frodo tries to get ducky drunk

Oooooh.

Almost forgot. Thanks to DK for the food! :D :D
Paul......shame on you.:p

I wish to thank her as well.;)

Pictures from the day:

First a Panorama from the first afternoon re-group
http://www.mini2.com/gallery/personal/Jeep-2-mini/41157_thumb.jpg (http://www.mini2.com/gallery/personal/Jeep-2-mini/41157.jpg)

Great day out - thanks Bob, even if I managed to go wrong right from the start - just not as badly as last year :D

Nice to put some more faces to user names - Aiden, Frodo & Intrepidmini especially, plus finding out who the rest of the Stelvio crew were - S&M & Rick

Now for the pics:

From the night before:
1. MartinL tries on some new head gear whilst waiting for the Mexican food to arrive
2. How much am I bid for this lovely picture of a MINI wheel?
3. MINI Babe with duckie
4. Another MINI Babe
5. Frodo tries to get ducky drunk

Very good pics. MartinL sure likes dressing up. Hi Martin. :D

And, all the Mini Babes are lovely. :D

LMAO @ Bob. That stone face. Love it. :p

Who brought the Duckie along? :confused:

Final couple of pics:

1. Intrepidmini, apparently their's a car behind her as well :D
2. The reason I got lost so easily - my navigator couldn't see out :D :D

PS thanks to Dora for lunch - saved the que for burgers.

Hi all, just got in and finished unpacking eating etc.

What a weekend, thanks so much to the organisers, a fantastic weekend, and the run was great, notes worked really well :D

The convoy down was good, thanks to Scooby, Veron, Parc and Rich_IX, some nice rolling road blocks on the M1, and some guy in a Volvo who thought he was in a mini :rolleyes:

Saturday night was great, was good to get chance to speak to veron, rich, scooby and catch up with people I havnt seen in a while. Edwards was very entertaining ;) ... and scooby, cheers for the pics of me trying to scam 2 drinks for the price of one from the vending machine, im sure it would have worked eventually :D

After dragging myself out of bed with a headache, I managed to get lost on the way to the services :rolleyes: but was rescued by Vicky and cheeky... cheers!, prob would have been circling that roundabout all morning if it wasnt for you :D

The run was really enjoyable, my car is now absolutely filthy, the highlight for me had to be going throught the ford! oh, and that drive with emma in front and thedaddy behind was highly entertaining, thedaddy... your mini one flies!!!! Mini Trainer... you get the award for nutter of the run :D "what a load of balls" ha ha !!! :D Sorry I didnt keep up on the M1, Id had enough at that point so settled for a steady cruise home!

All in all, this was the best run I have been on, I hope there will be one next year ;)

Nick

HI guys. just wanted to say a big thanks to all the the busy people who put on a great day for us all, thanks.
Some of them roads are top draw and i can see me going down them a lot more often. Hope you all didn't find it to hard to keep up with me (dark silver S, reg No N2 AGY) and my mate rich.
i'll be putting some pics on soon, so watch this space.

LATERS.

hello guys. my car is filthy :) thanks to all the organisers for this weekends fantastic meet & run. it was truely a great event.

Jase

PS Let me know your address and I'll post your badges back to you, sorry forgot to hand them in :(

Don't worry, just bring them along to the next run :)

I need to have a name badge amnesty soon - they are costing me a small fortune, but well worth it I think :)

DK ;) :apple:

Don't worry, just bring them along to the next run :)

I need to have a name badge amnesty soon - they are costing me a small fortune, but well worth it I think :)

DK ;) :apple:

Good work Dora. :)

Here goes the pics :D

1. Dinka demonstrating his Valeting skills on Smoked's (now shiney) new 18s :D
2. The car park at Churwell services this morning (and Emmas hair)
3. First U-Turn of the day :rolleyes:
4. Not sure of there username but a black works s... very nice ;)
5. Mini Trainer giving it some through the ford :eek:

Another great run, and excellent pace notes. Thank you!

Managed not to get lost in spite of doing the run solo and ending up being at the front for much of the time. I think the secret is not to rely on a passenger as they lose track of where they are.

I also find that it causes far less "domestics" if you take a car each. When we share a car the driver just complains about the navigation and the passenger complains about the driving!

Nice to see some classic Mini's doing some sort of run and having friendly waves and flashs from them.We saw Dutch, Belgian and Germans. I guess they are over here for next weekends IMM. Can you imagine such friendliness from British classic owners? I can't and we own a classic too.

...and some more pics

1. Parc in the ford, making sure not to spoil Andy's polishing job on the front bumper ;)
2. Myself goingt through the ford... slowly :rolleyes:
3. Not sure who, but nice new convertable going through the ford
4. Think that is thedaddy in the silver one, not sure on the others
5. Smoked looking happy with himself after missing the fence post :eek:

and finally for now...

1. The state of my car after the run
2. A Lincoln Navigator on the way home in Leeds with blingin spinners :D
3. One proud owner :D

Amazing first run! We'll def com again. :D

Thank you to everyone who organised it!

We met some great people:cool:

We've got some nice pics, not sorted thru them yet but we promise to post some tomorrow. :indi:

3. First U-Turn of the day :rolleyes:


Is that me (OV02 SSZ) ? If it is, any chance of the photo without the numberplate blurred out?

8 pages already!

Got home shortly after 22:15h, had to pull over for a little rest, and A14 had a jam up somewhere :rolleyes:

Thanks everyone for participating in this run :)

I apologise for not being able to speak to everyone - I tried, honest :o

It was great to see so many of us in one place, with lots of newbies, not to mention the usual suspects and great friends :)

I spent most of the morning alone with JANEY and her mate as company, cos we got rather lost around Barton :o Rather than trying to rejoin the group, I decided to go straight to the Prescott instead :)

Thank you for your generosity and contributions to Whizz Kidz :) Hopefully Soggy will post the final total raised soon :)

Too tired to sort out the pics and write up - doing washing up duty at the mo with one dishwasher on the go, and another load ready and waiting!

Hope to write it all up and post a few pics later.

THANK YOU ALL for making this a very memorable day indeed :)

DK ;) :apple:

P.S. I shall hold a name badge amnesty soon :D

and finally for now...

1. The state of my car after the run
2. A Lincoln Navigator on the way home in Leeds with blingin spinners :D
3. One proud owner :D


Mine looked the piccy number 1 also.....black is so cool but oh so high maintenance too!!!!

Is that me (OV02 SSZ) ? If it is, any chance of the photo without the numberplate blurred out?

That is us Marv, you can tell by me holding the camera in the pasenger seat... (My camera is fubar, but I'll try and fix some kind of video clips tomorrow)

Great run all, had a blast, hope to do it again soon!!!

MrRichLev (MartinSSZ's navigator and MiniAdventurer's brother)

Superb day, muchos grandios funos had !
I have about 80 shots of people going through the ford, same size and same quality as Steve below.
Mail me at mini@brownz.org with details of your car with distinguishing features (number plates are underwater on some shots) and car reg, I'll see if I have you and then mail you back with a piccy.
PS - If you noticed a short fat bald bloke crouching behind the bollard, then there is a fair bet I've got a photo of you !
PPS - Won't be able to reply to mails til tonight as I'm busy with work type stuff today !
Cheerz - Brownz

Hi-Res Photo of S&M (ooer!) (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dwbrown/08150038.JPG)

Cake?

Firstly I just want to apologise to anyone who may have felt threatened by my presence this weekend especially newbies!

I want to thank so many people for making this a birthday to remember, Adam, Neil, Nathan, Stephen, Paul, Janey, Lawrence & Rachel,Paul (Harpo), frodo for all coming up on the friday evening to help celebrate my 29th birthday.

I have only just got back to Brighton at Half 11 after going to see my Mother in Aylesbury M25 was murder!

There are so many highlights of this weekend that the list will be too long to mention, the swimming on saturday afternoon was a scream! how many roof tiles did we dislodge?

The Sat evening fun and thank you to all for having to listen to my waffle before the auction started :rolleyes:

Congrats to Bob & Dora for a fantastic run had a great time I will post pics when I've downloaded the camera really tired now

I love you all (metaphorically speaking......... Well not all there were a few that could have been physical :p ).

Great to see so many on this run and get to put some faces to screen names

Aiden you're a blast think you've a great sense of humour are you sure you don't want some cake? :eek:

Thanks again to all who made this a weekend to remember :D

Just found myself on post number 34 going through the ford in the silver cooper s... thanks to whoever put this on... its a great reminder of a fantastic day...

Thanks to all the guys and girls who put this all together... this was my first run but am eager to do another now.... when is the next one in this neck of the woods?

Once again, thanks... hope to see you all again...

Thanks to everyone for a great weekend - great to catch up with everyone and put a load more faces to names.

Thanks to Scooby212 for posting that pic of me cleaning my windows! :mad: and R1 for bringing everyones attention to it :o ;) :eek: :D

Still got your 38th birthday card in my car Neil (don't believe him when he says he's 29 - it's called mid life denial!:D)

And of course finally a huge thanks to everyone involved in the organisation and help on the day.

Paul

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