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following on from the proposed chelmer meet...

The first trip is nearly upon us - 1st to 3rd May

description of trip from "the other channel"

we last had the following:

Quote:Attendees

1/2/3 May

Red (If we someone wants to share the fuel)
Biff
Pete & Tom (1st and 2nd)
Tod (1st and 2nd)
Mark (baggy) - not camping

Baggy did all the legwork for us before christmas and has booked the field at hoe mill lock for us to camp at. the willow trees are about 4m apart and we can hammock as long as we don't damage the bark - they each yield £400 of cricket bat wood. Bagsy the furthest two trees for me and the boy!




camp fires are fine, so long as the grass isn't marked. we can have a communal campfire if we so wish. there is a toilet for our use. no others will be using the field.

so roll up roll up.... who's still in and who's signing up?

I'm still in. I take it we just turn up and sort out payment once there.



Biff

I can't make the week, are camp-fire s aloud at the June(26/27) weekend as well coz I may have something that would may protect the grass from the fire scar.

(13-04-10 05:47 PM)Biff Wrote: [ -> ]I take it we just turn up and sort out payment once there.

I reckon, we're booked in (cheers Baggy), and I think it's a fiver a night or something daft like that!

(13-04-10 06:10 PM)ukbushman Wrote: [ -> ]I can't make the week, are camp-fire s aloud at the June(26/27) weekend as well coz I may have something that would may protect the grass from the fire scar.

Well we'll find out then for you, but I'm pretty sure they'll just stick to their rule about using the existing bonfire heap for a camp fire.

As I sit here, pint of Fullers London Pride in my hand, I`m thinking, Hammock, tent, or tarp and ground dwelling. B***er it, I`ll chuck all three in and decide when I look how much pitch I got on saturday morning. But as I can only stay for saturday night, it`ll probably be the tarp. You ever tried getting in a hammock after a skinfull? I have, and went straight out t`other side and slept on the floor. Woke up with a slug moustache. He must have fancied my Jim Beam breath. Tent? enclosed space and beer supper do not bode well for a restfull sleep. Be good to put faces to the names on here, so looking forward to it.

From what I remember, the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation isn't covered by the BCU Licence. What's the price of a weekend ticket and where can we get one from?

Biff

(14-04-10 02:02 PM)Biff Wrote: [ -> ]From what I remember, the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation isn't covered by the BCU Licence. What's the price of a weekend ticket and where can we get one from?

Biff

biff
the ticket to canoe the chelmer & blackwater are about £4.50 a day which you can get from the lock keeper at paper mill lock, they might be available at Hoe mill lock but I'm not sure, you'll have to ask at the weekend camp.

(14-04-10 02:21 PM)ukbushman Wrote: [ -> ]the ticket to canoe the chelmer & blackwater are about £4.50 a day which you can get from the lock keeper at paper mill lock, they might be available at Hoe mill lock but I'm not sure, you'll have to ask at the weekend camp.

BOO!

I am back

There are two day tickets for a bit less, and a discount for groups if there are enough, they can be brought from Steve at Hoe mill.

Mark

(14-04-10 03:38 PM)baggy Wrote: [ -> ]

(14-04-10 02:21 PM)ukbushman Wrote: [ -> ]the ticket to canoe the chelmer & blackwater are about £4.50 a day which you can get from the lock keeper at paper mill lock, they might be available at Hoe mill lock but I'm not sure, you'll have to ask at the weekend camp.

BOO!

Whaaaa

Quote:I am back

There are two day tickets for a bit less, and a discount for groups if there are enough, they can be brought from Steve at Hoe mill.

Mark

Welcome back, Baggy. Hope we're going to see you at the camp. Hope you too can make it, even for part of a day, UKB, paddling or just chillin' round the camp fire. Thanks for the information.



Biff

(14-04-10 05:11 PM)Biff Wrote: [ -> ]

(14-04-10 03:38 PM)baggy Wrote: [ -> ]

(14-04-10 02:21 PM)ukbushman Wrote: [ -> ]the ticket to canoe the chelmer & blackwater are about £4.50 a day which you can get from the lock keeper at paper mill lock, they might be available at Hoe mill lock but I'm not sure, you'll have to ask at the weekend camp.

BOO!

Whaaaa

Quote:I am back

There are two day tickets for a bit less, and a discount for groups if there are enough, they can be brought from Steve at Hoe mill.

Mark

Welcome back, Baggy. Hope we're going to see you at the camp. Hope you too can make it, even for part of a day, UKB, paddling or just chillin' round the camp fire. Thanks for the information.



Biff

Biff
I have other things on that weekend but I'll be up for the June weekend transport permiting

Contact details for camp site/Hoe mill lock

Steve & June 01245 382156

Do we need to call the campsite then, I thought it had been booked..? If we do need to call it do we do this individually or is "the organiser" going to do it on our behalf....?

Cheers
Red.

(15-04-10 02:37 PM)redframe Wrote: [ -> ]Do we need to call the campsite then, I thought it had been booked..? If we do need to call it do we do this individually or is "the organiser" going to do it on our behalf....?

Hiya

Just turn up, a couple of people wanted the contact details so I posted them here.

Mark

Oh, OK, I'll go and sit back down then....

Cheers
Red.

(15-04-10 02:53 PM)redframe Wrote: [ -> ]Oh, OK, I'll go and sit back down then....

In the garden with a nice red wine?


Mark