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Dub-Diva

8th April 2008, 12:11

Can't go to this as we're off to a show at Stanstead... but hope you all have a great time :) :hug:

List so far...

Lucy & Steve (Robbie & Joey)
Luke & Gem
Jo & Geoff
Ria and Marc (in ernie if he's ready, newbie if not)
Graham

Doodlebug

8th April 2008, 12:28

I think me and Vickie are going, although we might have Vic's brother with us, or we might not even make it at all, its a bit up in the air at the moment, can we be maybes??? :)

Lucy & Steve (Robbie & Joey)
Luke & Gem
Jo & Geoff
Ria and Marc (in ernie if he's ready, newbie if not)
Graham
Ian & Vickie & maybe assorted wildlife (i.e. Vic's brother and Lola!)

Where we meeting?

1958 Harry

8th April 2008, 14:08

Thanks for adding me to the list hun :) Weirdly my internet in work is letting me access this again, so for now I'm here between the hours of 12-1 :lol:

We are maybe's at the mo, Mark thinks Harry will be ready in time, so if he is we'll be there, if not we wont :(

Are we gonna meet up somewhere first and then cruise to the start point together? How about the services on the M5 where it started last time? Then we can cruise to the start point :)

Shamrockez

8th April 2008, 14:15

Yeah good plan. The meet at Portishead starts at 11. Meet at 10:30?

We're helping out with the car park etc at Portishead tho so might have to go straight there.

1958 Harry

8th April 2008, 14:18

Sounds a plan - Shall we make it 10 at the Portishead services tho, that way we can get to the start point a bit earlier and be nearer the front :D

Soooo 10 at Portishead services then everyone?

Shamrockez

8th April 2008, 14:29

Yeah sounds good to us :)

Doodlebug

8th April 2008, 14:57

Yeah, if we are going, we shall be there :)

Vickie

8th April 2008, 18:33

Yeah I think we'll be coming to this one now! So it'll be me, Ian, James (my little bro) and Lola the pooch. A right car full!

It'll be Apple's first outing as well, eek! Might see if I can get her graphics put on Saturday. :)

Shamrockez

8th April 2008, 18:53

Robbie's very much looking forward to meeting Apple :D

tred

8th April 2008, 20:58

Sounds a plan - Shall we make it 10 at the Portishead services tho, that way we can get to the start point a bit earlier and be nearer the front :D

Soooo 10 at Portishead services then everyone?

Please add Jane and Dave to the list (in Gertie) Not sure where we'll see you all..Where is portishead services? We're coming from south wales but i don't remember a service station before weston (is my memory just rubbish?)

I'm really looking forward to this...unless the weather is rubbish :)

Shamrockez

8th April 2008, 21:10

I'm guessing he means Gordano services-which is J19 just after the Avonmouth Bridge (the bumpy one)

Blugg

8th April 2008, 21:18

Should be there again :)

tred

8th April 2008, 21:20

I'm guessing he means Gordano services-which is J19 just after the Avonmouth Bridge (the bumpy one)

Ah, ok, thanks :) Still not sure where we'll meet you, but hopefully at the services cos being newbies to this it would be nice to have company...but we normally work every sunday so the temptation for a lie in may just prove too great :D

Blugg

8th April 2008, 21:26

Ah, ok, thanks :) Still not sure where we'll meet you, but hopefully at the services cos being newbies to this it would be nice to have company...but we normally work every sunday so the temptation for a lie in may just prove too great :D

Nothing beats the Show feeling ;)

tred

8th April 2008, 22:01

Nothing beats the Show feeling ;)

If you've had your car 3 months and not had chance to polish it yet, then maybe that show feeling isn't so good :o ;)

1958 Harry

9th April 2008, 09:11

I'm guessing he means Gordano services-which is J19 just after the Avonmouth Bridge (the bumpy one)

Sorry yeah thats the services I meant :o I wasn't sure what it was called!

Look out for us when you get there, we should be easy to spot as there will be a bunch of NB's with Harry my Old B sat with them :D

Blugg

9th April 2008, 10:28

If you've had your car 3 months and not had chance to polish it yet, then maybe that show feeling isn't so good :o ;)

I have been known to turn up with dirt and dust ;)

Won't have the wheels on for a few shows, just love attending them :ghug:

Come down, once you've gone to one your hooked :)

Shamrockez

11th April 2008, 23:44

Meet us at either Gordano services or Portishead cos if you go straight down to Weston you'll miss the cruise!

Otherwise it will just be 'Arrive at the Prom' lol

tred

12th April 2008, 02:05

Updated list:

Lucy & Steve (Robbie & Joey)
Luke & Gem
Jo & Geoff
Ria and Marc (in ernie if he's ready, newbie if not)
Graham
Ian & Vickie & maybe assorted wildlife (i.e. Vic's brother and Lola!)
Jane & Dave (in Gertie)
Samantha118beetle
Blugg? (did I read somewhere that you're not coming?)

Having been in the garage for the past 2 days, Gertie is now sorted so we're definites. See you all Sunday :) Anyone else joining us?

Shamrockez

12th April 2008, 10:41

Looking like it will be a good Evvo turnout :D

Vickie

12th April 2008, 11:33

Yay! Although I though Ali was coming? Hope all is ok with her bug again now :)

Hopefully getting Apple's graphics put on today :cool:

Who has the banner??

Shamrockez

12th April 2008, 11:40

I gave the banner to Graham for UD - I dunno if he still has it or it's been passed onto someone else?

Good luc with the graphics Vic - I bet she'll look great! :D

Graham

12th April 2008, 12:10

I have the banner and the flag - also bringing flyers and stickers if anyone wants any

Blugg

12th April 2008, 14:11

Updated list:

Lucy & Steve (Robbie & Joey)
Luke & Gem
Jo & Geoff
Ria and Marc (in ernie if he's ready, newbie if not)
Graham
Ian & Vickie & maybe assorted wildlife (i.e. Vic's brother and Lola!)
Jane & Dave (in Gertie)
Samantha118beetle

Off to the Pod as it's nearer, have fun, hope it's Sunny for ya'll :):ghug:

Vickie

12th April 2008, 14:20

Oooh I hope the good(ish) weather holds out too!

We've decided to take the plunge and do that graphics ourselves - eek! Hopefully they'll be ok... we've put one side on just waiting for it to try off a bit :)

Shamrockez

12th April 2008, 15:42

It's supposed to be better tomorrow than today :) prob the occasional shower so should be able to hide in cars for those easily enough :)

albi0nfc

12th April 2008, 22:13

The Albion's going but not in Blue :(

Bonus is going in Reds ....:rolleyes:

Blugg

13th April 2008, 01:11

:ghug:

Graham

13th April 2008, 09:28

The weather isn`t to bad in WSM today - was raining but the sun is trying to come out. I`d bring a brolly though ;)

Whitebug

13th April 2008, 09:37

Still raining in Portishead at the moment, but it is definitely starting to look a bit brighter.......

Graham

13th April 2008, 09:41

Not looking forward to parking on the beach lawns though !

tred

13th April 2008, 20:17

Great to meet you all today...thanks for including us and making us feel so welcome :)

We could only find Lucy and Steve to say goodbye to...and then saw the rest of you as we were leaving :o Sorry about that...I did look for you but assumed you'd gone VW spotting ;) I loved today. I know it was almost second nature to the rest of you, but it was a first for me and one I'll never forget :)

Shamrockez

13th April 2008, 20:48

Yeah lovely to meet all the people we hadn't met before :D

We had a great day - even the weather wasn't too bad! :D Plus Joey got there and back without missing a beat, which is always good :D

Doodlebug

13th April 2008, 20:56

Yeah twas great to meet you guys again, sorry we went a bit early, we had to get the ducks a water container and then catch them to put them to bed!

Weather was amazing i thought, really warm and lovely :)

Shamrockez

13th April 2008, 20:58

Where's the pics of the duckys then?! :D

yellowbug

13th April 2008, 21:00

Nice to meet you too tred hope you can make it along to more shows and meets and your other halfs right lowering is a good thing :lol:

Had a smashing day today what a turnout there must have been millions of cars there :)

Vickie

13th April 2008, 21:15

Hey guys

Nice to see you all again! Had a great day, lush weather.

Where did all you guys disappear to though?? We were left with smelly Ria and Mark (or Mark and Ria) :laughing:

Really great to meet you Tred, hope to see you guys at some more shows in the summer, or maybe even around Crosskeys haha :)

Ducks are all tucked up for bed now, but here they are earlier on... (sorry they are crappy phone pics!)

albi0nfc

13th April 2008, 21:31

Hey Shamrock nice to meet you , do you know when the pictures will be posted ? ;)

albi0nfc

13th April 2008, 21:47

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn296/albionfc/CTTP/13042008106.jpg

Funkmaster Red

14th April 2008, 01:24

Would love to see more pics as i've never been to this show before! :)

tred

14th April 2008, 01:28

More piccies here
http://www.purepix.co.uk/vwcruise/index.html (http://www.purepix.co.uk/vwcruise/index.html) Enjoy :)

Funkmaster Red

14th April 2008, 01:36

Nice one dude! Looks like fun! :) Will have to check it out one year! It is once a year right?

yellowbug

14th April 2008, 07:37

tee hee hee I like image 4803 on that link ;)

Shamrockez

14th April 2008, 08:22

Nice one dude! Looks like fun! :) Will have to check it out one year! It is once a year right?
Yeah once a year.

There is a high likelyhood of it being aircooled only next year tho - due to some knobs in Golfs messing it up for the rest of us :mad: :(

yellowbug

14th April 2008, 08:33

Not that red one on g60 steels? he came steaming up past us on the way in

Surely they won't half the cars there were watercooled if you include all the t3's, t4's and t5's

Shamrockez

14th April 2008, 08:49

I'm not sure. I know someone had a hissy fit and they got a bit nasty - and when they were trying to film the news bit they were in the background heckling etc :rolleyes: very mature!

I'm hoping it will stay the same as this year as there was a nice turnout of T4s, Newbies and the odd T5 scattered about, as well as the watercooled T3s - none of which I'm aware caused any trouble... but on the website it stated which vehicles were allowed - anything aircooled as well as watercooled T3s, T4s, T5s and Newbies - no Golfs etc... but it seems some people didn't read it and/or decided to ignore it and got angry when they were turned away. So I think they want to stop the 'if you let that in, you've got to let us in - we're both watercooled' attidudes by banning all watercooled :(

I'm hoping not as it would be a real shame for the many watercooled who turned up well presented, on time, well behaved etc... for a few muppets to spoil it :rolleyes: :(

Funkmaster Red

14th April 2008, 09:25

It's always the bloody Golf drivers!!! lol. I hear that some golf drivers caused problems at Stansted at the weekend too by setting the field on fire and kicking off when told to put it out?!

My wife drives a Golf..... I blame her! :p (she was nowhere near weston or stansted but still)

Shamrockez

14th April 2008, 09:28

It's just the irresponsible few which give the rest a bad name I think.

Doesn't sound good about the Stansted show either - no need to set fields on fire!

Funkmaster Red

14th April 2008, 09:29

It seems to me like although there is a decent element to Golf drivers, (i had one once), there is the boy racer element to their ranks and you just can't leave those ****ers unsupervised for 5 minutes! Punks! They must just get carried away, you can't set Tescos/Mc Donalds car parks on fire easily! ;)

Funkmaster Red

14th April 2008, 09:35

P.S I'm looking for a good reply when i get certain comments about how my new bee is just a fancy mk4 Golf..... That always annoys me! :mad: :)

Dub-Diva

14th April 2008, 10:44

P.S I'm looking for a good reply when i get certain comments about how my new bee is just a fancy mk4 Golf..... That always annoys me! :mad: :)

Grandads drive mk4 golfs... I've never seen one in a newbee, have you? :D

Funkmaster Red

14th April 2008, 10:51

Grandads drive mk4 golfs... I've never seen one in a newbee, have you?
lol, unfortunately, yes.... We flyered a guy yesterday who must have been retired for a fair few years.... I asked, him, "do you have internet access?".... :D My wife saw a new bee and we saw him park up, apparently it's his second..... He may not be a grandad tho..... Maybe he's a retired pimp? lol. Either way, he's a dub fan so if for some reason he does read this, i hope he don't take offence cos he was a nice guy.... Just goes to show you can't stereotype... lol. :D

On the other foot, my wife and her Dad both own mk4's but neither of them are near retirement.... Unfortunately the arguement is flawed.... Mind you in a month, my wifes dad will be a grandad so..... :laughing:

Dub-Diva

14th April 2008, 11:15

Woohoo... That's the only "older" person I've heard of driving a newbee around so "big up dude" to him :) Most of the newbee drivers around here are late 20's to late 40's - I have converted most of them to "the wave" :D

Around here the Mk4 seems to the the best mode of transport for retired folk to make the weekly visit to our local tip with all their garden rubbish...

Stereotype? Moi? lol What makes me laugh is that most people put "boy racers" in Golf GTi's... what about us girlies? Some of us leave the boys still at the lights... hehehe

yellowbug

14th April 2008, 11:24

Be a loss for the event if they ban all watercooled cars

Dub-Diva

14th April 2008, 11:45

By the sound of it, it's a good job we didn't go in the golf :eek:

It's always a shame when one or two idiots ruin an event for the hundreds (sometimes thousands) of others that attend events :( makes me really annoyed :(

Shamrockez

15th April 2008, 12:28

Sorry I went so fast down the motorway, Sam - our Splitty doesn't have a speedo cable at the moment, and Steve was usng the satnav to tell him his speed, but the battery had died so I was having to tell him how fast he was going for the cameras.

Sorry for getting us a bit lost too :o Steve was shouting out where he was going over the walkie talkie but was going out of range, so I thought if we went round that big roundabout enough times, someone else was bound to come past who we could follow- which they did :D