Plan of Action

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Meeting up at
Cheshire Military Museum
The Castle,
Chester,
CH1 2DN

Guessing 3 hours might be enough

2:00pm
Bear and Billet Public House
94 Lower Bridge Street, Chester.

Thanks to Bruce who has recerved a room in the Bear and Billet

Neil

Venue could be almost anywhere if I'm free - but that date is my wife's birthday, and I don't think I'd be forgiven if I went off on a jaunt with you lot!!!

Never mind me - how are the rest of you fixed for that date? If there is a sufficient number, go for it! if not and the date varies, I'll have another look.

Hwyl,
LST_164

Tis my birthday aswell. I'm sure i could wrangle another weekend if needs be. I lie, i have the 12th off

I wish I could remember being 25!

Liverpool don't play until the Sunday (against Manure), and I don't go off to Holland until then either, so I can't see any reason why not.

We seem to have a date......just a venue to find!

Bruce

P.S. My birthday is on the 28th....and NO....I'm not announcing how many!

Leave the venue for a brave Welshman Geraint, he knows his stuff, although i like St. Asaph.

Neil

Why not bring her along too?
Few of us bite, and even Geraint polishes up well when needed.

Bruce

2 birthdays, North Wales meet and birthday celebration in one Ann wouldn't be chuffed if on her b'day she had to tag along with me on yet more historical stuff. I fear Chester Zoo again.

Bruce can we guess?

Bruce,
I think not...she's very supportive but not in the slightest bit interested in military history. Besides we have to granny-sit these days, so outings together have to be of very limited duration.

Chester Zoo???

LST_164

She likes to go to Chester Zoo on her birthdays

Neil

blast he's right the 10th it is

10th October Ayesha and i will be.......in Ypres.......dedication of a new plaque in St. George's on the Friday, and the new tank memorial in Poelcapelle on the Saturday.
Please extend our apologies!
Bruce

Humm this is tricky

Maybe we are now seeing why the previous thread died!



Bruce

Well, I'm keen to attend!

The date is probabaly proving tricky because it is so close, so how about a date a bit further back, say November / December? Our first meet was in Chester and, if we did it again in December we could bring partners and if they have no interest at all in what we drivel on about they can console themselves with some Christmas shopping. Everybody wins!

I thought Bruce was married to Ayesha.

He is, but he can't remember how old he is.

If Ken is coming, Chester Zoo may not be the best meeting place. He might not get out.

As for my good lady, any rumours linking me in marriage with Andrew Hesketh will be met in Court, after shins have been introduced to Ayesha's foot!



Bruce

Chester Zoo? Might that not be too similar to a Maghull Council Meeting for Bruce?

I would like to place on record that Bruce and I are NOT married.

However, we did once...[EDIT]

Andrew!

You bounder!!!

Bruce

No shame in that Andrew anything goes now. had it been Geraint instead of Bruce.....................well that's another story

Geraint and I, as with Mr Hesketh, are just good friends.......so Ayesha tells me.

Bruce

Incidentally.....Chester. We never did manage to get into the Cheshire Museum. Might that be an idea....should it happen to be open?

I note that throughout the above I have been referred to most formally as Mr. Heskth and Andrew Hesketh. My friends call me Andy.

(Hang on, that could explain the formality?! )

Humm, putting it back aint a bad idea.

the only thing is that the North Wales Meet, in Chester, England. I can't put my finger on whats wrong . I doubt the romans would like it.

Neil

I can't see the problem.

As we all know, lots of Welsh folk visit Artillery Wood to pay their respects to the grave of Hedd Wyn (or Heth Win to most of us) who died before receiving the chair at the national eisdeddfod in 1917. As a result, it is known as the Black Chair of Birkenhead. The Welsh national eisdeddfod has been held four times in Liverpool, and there were even plans for it to be here in 2008 to fit in with the Year of Culture. As a result, if Liverpool is indeed the capital of North Wales, then where is the problem of us meeting in Chester? Besides, I also like the Bear and Billet!

Maybe we could consider this a North wales, Cheshire, Merseyside and south Lancashire meet-up? Can someone come up with a suitable acronym?

Bruce

Nope

Have they got "Yak" posts in Chester ,Bruce?

I'm starting to get that deja vu feeling

Have a fig roll Ken.

Last time I was in Chester you could hardly move for tethered yaks. Apparently, the resulting manure is good for the roses.

Ken.....does droit de seigneur still apply in Flers? You could ask at the Mairie this weekend.......

Bruce

interesting

Bruce,

OMG, the memories you just brought back! There was rarely a Friday or Saturday in my teens when I wasn't to be found in there. Erm, of course, once I was eighteen

Ian.

What has poor Ken done to deserve being pelted with those awful fig rolls?

Bruce

No, but when I'm running the Mairie it is a tradition that I am keen to see revived. Perhaps best not to base my election strategy on it though, methinks.

(Desperate but probably futile attempt to restore sanity)

Are we seriously thinking Chester in Nov./Dec. now? On a Saturday, or...?

We North Walians do gravitate eastwards (that's logical: if we gravitated the other way we'd end up in the Irish Sea...). Chester was our family Xmas shopping haunt when I was a wee lad, varied occasionally by longer expeditions to Injun Territory across the Mersey (Blacklers & Owen Owens grottoes).

(...Puts glittery memories back in the box and realises that he's been tempted off the straight and narrow already.)

LST_164

November or December, seems to suit, allows more time. I see the issues with the irish sea. I've no objection to Chester, as bruce said what to call it?

Neil

For a small consideration, I would be delighted to visit and assist in delivering your leaflets and helping you canvas in your election campaign. I do have some slight experience in that.

You will be needing a new Reeve?

Bruce

Just found this thread! Yupp! I'm up for it! Chester's fine. Anytime after 5th Nov is good - I can even be available on 25th December. Anywhere with a decent outside shelter for to share a small cigar with Mr H, and a quick drag of Cherry Shag with Bruce. I think it time to do the decent thing and return Neil's credit card.

Geraint, i thought you were lost. I'll raid my brain

Neil

NWChMerSoLa - prononunced Nwchmersola (ch as in chutney)

"Stop faffing about and get it organised!"
At least, I think Ayesha said faffing.......

Right.....we seem agreed on Chester
We seem agreed on December

Do we need a focus....something like trying to get into the Chester Regimental Museum, as we attempted once before?
Or do we just want to turn up somewhere like the Bear and Billet and have a good chin-wag?

How about a date?

Bruce

I'm interested, translator required!! When and where?
Kevin

I'll suggest Saturday 6th November, with the following week 13th Nov as a reserve date. Is the museum open on a Saturday? My wife states that she will accompany me this time; and is most interested in meeting 'all these wasters you seem to devote all your time to'

7th?

I have emailed the museum to see if it is open on either or both of those dates, and if so when.
I will post the reply as soon as i receive it.

Might this be an early Chri....er....."celebration time of the birth of Christ" present buying opportunity for those spouses not into a museum visit? We could arrange to meet up at opening time, some could go off shopping, and we could meet in the Bear and Billet for lunch?

This would give ample time for Mrs. Geraint to have her preconceptions amply confirmed!

Bruce

Ooops 8th and 14th Bruce. Thanks Andy!

Is Geraint's suggestion the best acronym we could manage between us???

Bruce

Regimental museum is open on a Saturday, I was there a few weeks ago. Did some research on my men in the cheshires and got a personal guided tour from a volunteer in the archives, very good and worth the visit.

I too have memories of a mis-spent youth in the bear and Billet, in the days when you got high just breathing in that place

judith

mis-spent youth? I'm still in mine.

Do not mock a woman about her age, I am far closer to collecting my pension than my mis spent youth