What do you want from a day visit group meeting or workshop?

sandeha · Post by **sandeha** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:06 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Tea shops? TEA SHOPS ???

Puh-lease ... I need Starbucks.

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:10 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

STARBUCKS???!!!!

I suggest you do the Bath bit of the possible places then. The rest of us will go where we can get decent, english, TEA.

I bet you drink lager as well.

BarryWilkinson · Post by **BarryWilkinson** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:22 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Hello Steve,

Thanks for the update. I have not been to most of the venue's you suggested. Tetbury, Malmsbury & Castle Combe sound very promising (and I'm sure have pubs as well as tea shops). Westonbirt Arboretum is possibly better in the Autumn?

I'm open to any as long as I'm not away on the chosen date. I am happy to stay late as I can go on to friends in N. Somerset.

Barry

Aynsley Cooper · Post by **Aynsley Cooper** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:43 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Good effort - weekday option is fine, as is the B&B option.
Work dates & holidays otherwise dictate availabilty for me.
Sandeha, if I get there I'll bring some coffee filters, you'll be fine, calm down!

sandeha · Post by **sandeha** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:02 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

S'allright, Aynsley, I'll bring me Thermos.

PS ... if it's a weekday, then Friday's the only one free here. A Saturday is preferable.

BarryWilkinson · Post by **BarryWilkinson** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:22 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

I hope your not under water there Steve?

Barry

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:46 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Only slightly. I live on a hill but Kath was in London on Friday so I went to pick her up from Didcot Parkway (3.5 hours to do 50 miles).

Roads shut everywhere so cut across country. Got to a village in Oxfordshire and ended up driving through 2.5ft water (Jeep Cherokee, water under doors but kept going!).

Found way into a dry side road then parked up for the night. Very nice local chap invited us to stay with him and his family, made us dinner and breakfast!.

Finally got away at 12:00 on Saturday and got home after 24 hours.

Knackered now.

Steve

BarryWilkinson · Post by **BarryWilkinson** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:56 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Sounds like quite an adventure, glad it all turned out OK.

Regards

Barry

Lynne Evans · Post by **Lynne Evans** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:05 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

So I guess we'll give the Cotswold Water Park a miss then

gari · Post by **gari** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:09 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Can you not see it from where you are Lynne ?!

Gari

sandeha · Post by **sandeha** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:30 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Eeeuwww ... would be a sad thing indeed if the NEW Cotswold Water Park stretches from Taunton to Oxford.

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:05 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Well the sun is shining, the windows need painting and the grass needs cutting (again) but time to do something useful....

Assuming we want to do this on a Friday or Monday, looking at my diary I can do the following days....

Mon 6/8
Fri 10/8
Sat 11/8
Mon 13/8
Mon 20/8
Fri 24/8
Fri 31/8
Mon 3/9

Can those who want to attend let me know their preferences and I'll pick a day.

One thought - we could mix and match over 2 consecutive days with people attending on either day and meeting up for some or all of 1st day lunch, dinner, 2nd day lunch especially as a few people may want to stay over.

Let me know who wants to attend when and I'll pick a day/days.

Also - any more proposals for locations?

Steve

Post by **Joanna Carter** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:32 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Aynsley, and others; see the new thread for an interesting idea.

Aynsley Cooper · Post by **Aynsley Cooper** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:30 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

SteveH wrote:Mon 20/8
- Can those who want to attend let me know their preferences and I'll pick a day.
Let me know who wants to attend when and I'll pick a day/days.

Steve

Steve
The only one of these I can do is the 20th of August, so please keep me in mind.
Joanna - posted on yours, too.
Cheers
A

Lynne Evans · Post by **Lynne Evans** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:39 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

I'd be able to do any of the dates from 20th onwards. I looked at some stuff on the Cotswold Water Park and it now covers a vast area, including some jolly posh holiday homes as well as nature reserves and a bit of a multi-user path which follows a disused railway. Lots of water too! My guess is that it would need a good reccie to know where to head for, especially in the summer when there'll be loads of holiday makers around.

There could also be mileage in the Gloucester-Sharpness canal and Sharpness docks, and also the Stroudwater canal http://www.stroudwater.co.uk/cpsn/guide.htm which is partly navigable and in the process of being restored, though I have no first hand experience of these. I think the area around the Dean Heritage Centre at Upper Soudley in the Forest of Dean may also have some old industrial stuff lurking about. Westonbirt is always a good bet with Malmesbury not far away. And then there are the 'pretty' villages like Easton Grey, Bibury, the Slaughters etc. Lots of variety!!

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