Just to confirm the date is Thursday 26th. THIS WILL NOT CHANGE!!
See some of you at Club Corona on Friday 6th.
Sandyballs
Friday, January 30, 2015
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
More Changes
Sorry to muck you all about again but Tuesday 24th is not good for Froggy. Anybody have any objection to Thursday 26th?
Sandyballs
Sandyballs
Sunday, January 25, 2015
All Change - New Ramble Date
Hi All,
Wednesday 25th was the agreed compromise date for next month's ramble. However something has come up - a Bombay reunion as it happens. Anybody have any objection to the day before - Tuesday 24th?
Sandyballs
Wednesday 25th was the agreed compromise date for next month's ramble. However something has come up - a Bombay reunion as it happens. Anybody have any objection to the day before - Tuesday 24th?
Sandyballs
Saturday, January 17, 2015
February 2015 Ramble
Final joining date:-
Hi All,
Revised date. We walk on Wednesday 25th. Hope that is OK with all!
Sandyballs
Hi All,
Revised date. We walk on Wednesday 25th. Hope that is OK with all!
Sandyballs
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
February Joining Instructions Phase Two
Hi All,
Matt tells me that he cannot make the 18th, or indeed the 11th. Anybody object to the 25th? Nearer to Spring after all.
Please let me know.
SandyBalls
Matt tells me that he cannot make the 18th, or indeed the 11th. Anybody object to the 25th? Nearer to Spring after all.
Please let me know.
SandyBalls
February Joining Instructions (?)
Fellow Nerds,
Our last expedition ended in some confusion - especially for me! I blame the inclusion of those Darksider women!
Anyway, we did not get round to choosing a date for the February ramble. My diary for that month is 'tabula rasa'- empty. Anybody object to Wednesday 18th? If a problem for anyone we can consider other dates.
SandyBalls
Our last expedition ended in some confusion - especially for me! I blame the inclusion of those Darksider women!
Anyway, we did not get round to choosing a date for the February ramble. My diary for that month is 'tabula rasa'- empty. Anybody object to Wednesday 18th? If a problem for anyone we can consider other dates.
SandyBalls
Monday, January 12, 2015
January 2015 Ramble
NERDS' Ramble No 303. Wed. 7th Jan. 2015.
Those in The Pub – Bronco, Sheila, Matt, Mike L.
Those Rambling
NERDS - Sandyballs, Lafayette, Froggy, Paco, Curly, Shaz - (honorary status 'cos she's a girlie)
Darksiders – Ed, Marion, Jane, Dave, Robert.
Lafayette's “Sort of Just after his Birthday” Ramble.
Here we are again: the biannual mingling of NERDS and Darksiders, all about to begin a dry January (ha, bloody ha!).
Lafayette had received a number of apologies for non -rambling attendance: Matt – lingering traces of ebola.
Bronco – lost his horse.
Mike L. - lost all his money at cards.
Sheila – couldn't find her earrings.
So the remainder met at Newhaven station where Lafayette did a head count and then led everyone off up the river in the general direction of Piddinghoe. The weather wasn't too bad considering it was January; it was dullish but windyish and definitely muddyish under foot. Lafayette concluded that everyone in Newhaven who owned a dog had been that way very recently and let their dog shit all over the path. We had to walk very carefully along the bank of The Mighty Ouse.
Views included the back of Lafayette's previous house (where fifteen years previously he had assassinated a noisy seagull who had interrupted a wine tasting session with his sister), The Iconic Newhaven Incinerator which had nearly burned down about a month previously due to someone stubbing their fag out in the wrong place, and the Piddinghoe Yachting Club where various fanatics were trying to right their boats which had capsised in the strong wind.
We traversed Piddinghoe itself, a pretty (and expensive) village where people had yachts and lots of money, and stopped for a brief calva stop while Lafayette checked nobody had gone astray or had fallen in the river. There used to be a nice pub here called The Royal Oak where it was rumoured that Charles The First had hidden in the attic from Cromwell's men, but which had sadly burnt to the ground after the NERDS had lunched there during one of the very early rambles.
So back along the river again, once more admiring the baroque/jacobean incinerator dominating the far bank. Lafayette had visited this recently and had been told they converted all the rubbish there into very clean electicity – and if you believe that.....
Anyway, time for our first (second?) pit stop at The Jolly Boatman back in Newhaven.
Now, The Jolly Boatman is a friendly, tatty, sort of fag rolling, smuggling type of pub
the landlord of which seemed to be totally unfazed by a dozen or so ramblers descending on him demanding
Sauvignon blanc and Orange pekoe tea.
He had even got a bunch of clapped out armchairs together so that we could sit around in comfort, recover from all our strenuous efforts and take pictures of each other on our phones.
Lafayette and Sandyballs pronounced the beer to be very good, especially when they noticed a small Barrel of Christmas Ale (only 7.5 per cent) and tried it out (moderately, of course).
Thereafter Lafayette had to prise everyone out of their comfort zone ( we were on a strict timetable) to get a move on through Newhaven towards The lunch pub in Denton. Strangely enough, just as we were going through the overpass by the station, Lafayette spotted a taxi taking off containing, yes, you've guessed it, the four skiving Nerdsiders who were “Just meeting us at the pub.” So much for all the fancy excuses they had put forward to get out of coming with us.
And so on, on, past Sainsburys and a bit further on to The Flying Fish where Lafayette had booked lunch.
There we met the other taxi-using Nerdsideskivers – Bronco, Mike L. Sheila and Matt who had gone there early to get a good seat and were well into their first drinks.
After we had all jockeyed for position round lots of tables for lunch Lafayette was honoured to receive a couple of totally unexpected birthday presents ( some port from Matt and a Darkside mug from Sheila), and then the festivities began.
Our hostess was Nicola who didn't seem to mind tons of noisy ramblers and whose chef did a mean line in bubble and squeak.
The food and drink was excellent; mucho Riocha was consumed and Lafayette found he was having a deep intellectual discussion with Marion about the deviation of the television series “The Musketeers” from what Alexander Dumas' novels actually portrayed. Marion seemed to think the whole thing was just an excuse to show off a bit of male eye candy, and said she wished that that Aramis would come round and get his sword out for her.
Froggy took tons and tons of photographs of everyone,
but strangely enough there was no pictorial record of the actual ramble.
Paco got into his stride and started kissing everybody,
especially the girlies.( Note to Paco, if you're going to do this it's best to have the odd shave beforehand) and every body else just got hilariously drunk. Some time later a hardcore remained after everyone else had sloped off back to the station.
The drinking continued until Lafayette noticed that what had started off as lunch at one o'clock had morphed into tea time at six o'clock and it might be a good idea to get those with far to go back to the station. This proved a little more difficult than expected (mentioning no names) but was finally managed, and everybody was waved off.
These joint rambles seem now to be quite popular, and this one seemed to go off OK. Lafayette would like to thank all those who attended, whether walking or not, and is grateful for the presents. Thanks, of course, have to go to Nicola and her assistant at the pub for making the meal a success and it was nice to see Bronco and Mike L. again.
The NERDS Management is still thinking about the 300th which is due to be held somewhere exotic in May – only four months to go now - decisions need to be made!
Love to All and Happy New Year.
Lafayette.
Those in The Pub – Bronco, Sheila, Matt, Mike L.
Those Rambling
NERDS - Sandyballs, Lafayette, Froggy, Paco, Curly, Shaz - (honorary status 'cos she's a girlie)
Darksiders – Ed, Marion, Jane, Dave, Robert.
Lafayette's “Sort of Just after his Birthday” Ramble.
Here we are again: the biannual mingling of NERDS and Darksiders, all about to begin a dry January (ha, bloody ha!).
Lafayette had received a number of apologies for non -rambling attendance: Matt – lingering traces of ebola.
Bronco – lost his horse.
Mike L. - lost all his money at cards.
Sheila – couldn't find her earrings.
So the remainder met at Newhaven station where Lafayette did a head count and then led everyone off up the river in the general direction of Piddinghoe. The weather wasn't too bad considering it was January; it was dullish but windyish and definitely muddyish under foot. Lafayette concluded that everyone in Newhaven who owned a dog had been that way very recently and let their dog shit all over the path. We had to walk very carefully along the bank of The Mighty Ouse.
Views included the back of Lafayette's previous house (where fifteen years previously he had assassinated a noisy seagull who had interrupted a wine tasting session with his sister), The Iconic Newhaven Incinerator which had nearly burned down about a month previously due to someone stubbing their fag out in the wrong place, and the Piddinghoe Yachting Club where various fanatics were trying to right their boats which had capsised in the strong wind.
We traversed Piddinghoe itself, a pretty (and expensive) village where people had yachts and lots of money, and stopped for a brief calva stop while Lafayette checked nobody had gone astray or had fallen in the river. There used to be a nice pub here called The Royal Oak where it was rumoured that Charles The First had hidden in the attic from Cromwell's men, but which had sadly burnt to the ground after the NERDS had lunched there during one of the very early rambles.
So back along the river again, once more admiring the baroque/jacobean incinerator dominating the far bank. Lafayette had visited this recently and had been told they converted all the rubbish there into very clean electicity – and if you believe that.....
Anyway, time for our first (second?) pit stop at The Jolly Boatman back in Newhaven.
Now, The Jolly Boatman is a friendly, tatty, sort of fag rolling, smuggling type of pub
Sauvignon blanc and Orange pekoe tea.
Thereafter Lafayette had to prise everyone out of their comfort zone ( we were on a strict timetable) to get a move on through Newhaven towards The lunch pub in Denton. Strangely enough, just as we were going through the overpass by the station, Lafayette spotted a taxi taking off containing, yes, you've guessed it, the four skiving Nerdsiders who were “Just meeting us at the pub.” So much for all the fancy excuses they had put forward to get out of coming with us.
And so on, on, past Sainsburys and a bit further on to The Flying Fish where Lafayette had booked lunch.
Our hostess was Nicola who didn't seem to mind tons of noisy ramblers and whose chef did a mean line in bubble and squeak.
The food and drink was excellent; mucho Riocha was consumed and Lafayette found he was having a deep intellectual discussion with Marion about the deviation of the television series “The Musketeers” from what Alexander Dumas' novels actually portrayed. Marion seemed to think the whole thing was just an excuse to show off a bit of male eye candy, and said she wished that that Aramis would come round and get his sword out for her.
Froggy took tons and tons of photographs of everyone,
Paco got into his stride and started kissing everybody,
These joint rambles seem now to be quite popular, and this one seemed to go off OK. Lafayette would like to thank all those who attended, whether walking or not, and is grateful for the presents. Thanks, of course, have to go to Nicola and her assistant at the pub for making the meal a success and it was nice to see Bronco and Mike L. again.
The NERDS Management is still thinking about the 300th which is due to be held somewhere exotic in May – only four months to go now - decisions need to be made!
Love to All and Happy New Year.
Lafayette.
Thursday, January 08, 2015
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