Hampshire Laning Weekend --> 17 & 18/03/07

Well we had a list of 12 cars...

1 notified me that he would be late (thus we met him after lunch).
1 notified me that his vehicle was broken (thus we didn't have to wait).
This was NO PROBLEM at all, and was the correct way to do things!

3 didn't bother cancelling, didn't bother turning up, couldn't even give me a telephone call to say that they weren't coming. (Admittedly 1 extra also didn't turn up, but he had a reserved space and hadn't confirmed it either way. Eventually, that means that 4 people didn't bother).

Everyone was given my number thanks to Rob for his help...
While I don't ask for much, a little bit of courtesy goes a long way...

If I had have known in advance that these people weren't coming the rest of us could have left Basingstoke 1 hour earlier (instead of waiting for these people), the rest of us could have then done at least another 3 or 4 lanes more than we did!

BUT... I still had a top time, I enjoyed myself immensely and I don't particularly care, it just would've been nice to have got a phonecall or a text message from those saying that they couldn't make it, a reason wasn't even needed....

Ok, /rant over!

On another note, some piccies are up now.

Last edited by rangaKoo on Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Rightio..

Now for the good bit.

Thanks very much to Rob for his patience in testing lanes, his assistance with sending out PM's to everyone with my number, and also for his help with navigation and leading one group.

Thanks very much to Wilberforce for his patience in testing lanes as well, his assistance with helping me out with many other facets of this endeavour such as picking up the portaloo and taking it to somewhere I could collect it in case I didn't leave work early enough... and also for taking the rubbish with him this afternoon.. and last but not least, for letting us ALL rib him for an entire weekend because he had the ONLY FRONTERA WITH NO BULLBAR!!!!!!

Thank you very much to the Star Inn for their fantastic food, great service and beautiful warm fire!!

Thank also to the landowner for the use of his field for our campsite and for his great P&P site.

Thank you to the Wessex Hillrunners folks who turned up and gave loads of good advice and assistance as well!!

Cheers to you all!

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Lastly, there was a new shiny clean Black SWB Frontera at the site today who for some reason hadn't been invited by us, and he had never, ever, used his 4wd for it's intended purpose, and being the lovely folk we are I apologised for his not being invited because I didn't know him before and that he wasn't on this site...
I then promptly sold him a FronteraOwners.co.uk STICKER and told him to join the forum.. SOOOOOOOOOOO on that note, I'm waiting for him to introduce himself with a big welcome and loads of pride in the fact that for a complete 4wding newbie he absolutely took to it like a fish to water!

TOP JOB mate.. you did well.. and the scratches on the black paintwork looked lovely :shock:

Si

True a bit of courtesy is all it takes.
As long as the rest of the day turned out good, there loss :wink:

So true mate, they missed out on a great weekend and we still enjoyed ourselves a great deal.

Sorry, was busy editing that last post and adding in the bit about our soon to be new member!

Last edited by Wilberforce on Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

wish i'd thought of that when i went (sort of) through the corwen carwash :oops:

but hey .......you can't kill a 2.8