Club Newsletter - January 2006

Its been quite a while since the last Newsletter but it’s the start of another year so plenty of news to pass on.

First of all, Congratulations to Steve and Dawn on the arrival of their Baby Daughter Jorja, who made her appearance on Sat 7^th January 2002 at 12.12pm. Mother and Baby doing fine, father still in shock.

Thanks to everyone who turned up for the meeting last week, as usual it was a lively get together.

• Christmas Party, Another brilliant Xmas party, hosted by the ‘Lodge Hotel’ Food was excellent, loads of drink and a good time had by everyone.

• Edinburgh Bike Show Sunday 12^th March 2006, A 25 Seater coach (With outside toilet for you know who) has been booked, £15.00 per head, leaves Inverurie 0630, Picking up at Chalmers of Bucksburn at 0700, another stop across the city can be made if necessary, and a stop at Portlethen.

Return time to be agreed on the day.

Contact Ronson to reserve your seat, Please note there are a Limited number of seats only at the front of the bus as far away from the lavvie as possible, Book early to avoid gassing.

Club Logo,The new logo has been chosen for the club, still a bit of ‘tweeking’ to be done but the finished article should be ready in the next week or so. Once everyone has agreed then I will source a supplier, prices etc, would hope to have the new patches ready by the end of Feb.

• Events Diary, Currently compiling a list of events for this year, Rallies, Runs, etc, if anyone has any dates for anything that maybe of interest then please let either Lesley or Steve know so it can be added to the Events List on the Web-site.

• Furry Boots Rally. 26^th 27^th, 28^th May 2006.

Rally Committee has started planning this years Rally, Flyers and Tickets will be posted out by the end of January and Posters will be ready to distribute. Next Rally Meeting at Ronson’s and Elaine’s Sunday 15^th Jan at 2pm.

• Weekend Runs, Following a discussion at the last meeting the general consenus is to have a club weekend away on the May Bank Holiday Weekend 28/29/30/01 April instead of going to the Buzzards in Dornoch. Road Captain (Keith) has therefore proposed the following route

Friday night, leave Huntly (?) by 7:30 (maybe try for 7:00 to allow for latecomers) and stay at the youth hostel

            http://www.syha.org.uk/SYHA/Web/Site/Hostels/Inverness.asp

On Saturday, leave Inverness about 9:30 going to Oban via Loch Carron, Loch Shiel and Glencoe. I'd suggest meeting anyone who was not staying in Inverness at Spean Bridge, maybe at the Little Chef at around 2 p.m. That should see us in Oban by 6.

            http://www.syha.org.uk/SYHA/Web/Site/Hostels/Oban.asp

On Sunday people can please themselves, Ronson mentioned at trip down to the Mull of Kintyre which is about a 200-mile round trip. I'd be up for that, depending on Saturday night's festivities...

         There's plenty of other stuff to do though.

On Monday I was thinking of coming back from Oban via Crieff and Glenshee. That's about 204 miles right back to Aberdeen according to Autoroute.

If you are interested in this weekend then let Keith know as he will need to book the accommodation sooner rather than later.

Lesley.