Craic in the gloaming

The caravans of seven members voted with their wheels to go to the rally at Longburton. The meadow at West Hall Farm, which was dry and firm, only cost £3.50 a night and a short stroll from the site, across another field, brought members to the Rose & Crown pub, which will be remembered from previous visits to the area as the venue for skittles evenings.

Friday was windy but sunny and Saturday was a fine day with members enjoying the barbeque in the evening sitting in Chris and Linda’s awning as well as the gazebo of the rally officers, Mon and Mac. The craic in the gloaming following the barbeque had long term members recalling, for the benefit of newcomers, the old days when a founder member, Pete Yeoman, would knock on a farmer’s door to ask permission to rally in one of his meadows – no cut grass and with a few cowpats for company. The rally officer’s first duty was to dig The Hole.

Sunday was a mizzly sort of day, ideal for chilling out, and as warned, the local natives proved hostile – we lost another WCCC sign stolen from across the road to the entrance to the farm track!