BREAKFAST SOCIAL CROOKED BILLET – TIM AND SHIRLEY (FOR NORMA AND ROWLAND) – SUNDAY OCTOBER 9

21 EARLY RISERS TURNED UP AT THE VENUE AT 9.00 AM LOOKING FORWARD TO A NICE CROOKED BILLET BREAKFAST. ON ARRIVAL THERE WAS PLENTY OF TEA AND COFFEE AVAILABLE BEFORE THEY STARTED SERVING BREAKFAST. EVEN MORE TEA AND COFFEE WAS AVAILABLE DURING THE MEAL. I CAN HONESTLY VOUCH FOR THE COFFEE WHICH WAS EXCELLENT.

AFTERWARDS WHEN EVERYONE WAS FED AND WATERED, A RAFFLE WAS HELD AND THE WINNERS TOOK HOME BOTTLES OF WINE, CHOCOLATES AND OTHER ASSORTED PRIZES. AFTER THIS, CONVERSATIONS CONTINUED UNTIL EVERYONE DISAPPEARED HOMEWARDS.

A BIG THANK YOU TO SHIRLEY & TIM FOR STEPPING IN TO ORGANISE EVERYTHING DUE TO NORMA’S ILLNESS. WE ALL HOPE YOU ARE FULLY RECOVERED BY THE TIME THE NEWSLETTER IS PUBLISHED.

CREDIT: KEITH COUTTS

PUMPKIN PARADE HALLOWEEN RUN – BARBARA AND MICHAEL SENIOR – SATURDAY OCTOBER 29

EVEN CARS IN TOTAL LEFT CLIFTON MOOR FOR THE ANNUAL HALLOWEEN RUN, THIS YEAR ORGANISED BY MIKE AND BARBARA SENIOR (THEIR FIRST RUN IN CHARGE). FANCY DRESS WAS AS USUAL TAKEN IN GOOD SPIRIT AND RECEIVED SOME GOOD COMMENTS FROM SHOPPERS.

THE WEATHER WAS AGAINST US AT FIRST BUT AFTER THE BRIEFING THE RAIN STOPPED AND A FEW COUPLES DROPPED THEIR TOPS EVEN THOUGH THE CLOUDS WERE RATHER GREY.

THE RUN TOOK US THROUGH SOME FAMILIAR, AND SOME NOT SO FAMILIAR, COUNTRYSIDE. HAXBY, STRENSALLL AND BULMER TO A COMFORT STOP AT CASTLE HOWARD. ON THROUGH MALTON TO BIRDSALL THEN DOWN THE LOVELY TWISTY THIXENDALE VALLEY AND OUT ONTO THE WOLDS. OFF THE WOLDS TO SHERBURN, THORNTON-LE-DALE AND PICKERING BEFORE THE FINAL STOP FOR THE LUNCH BREAK AT THE CROWN IN HUTTON-LE-HOLE.

VOTES WERE CAST FOR THE FANCY DRESS AND THE WINNERS WERE DAVE MORFORD FOR HIS DRACULA (WHICH WAS TOO LIFE LIKE FOR COMFORT). BEST FEMALE WAS SHIRLEY PICKETT AS A GLAMMED-UP PUMPKIN. BEST COUPLE WAS DAVE AND ROSIE MORFORD, ROSIE AS A RATHER FURRY BLACK CAT. WELL DONE TO ALL.

IT WAS VERY NICE TO HAVE KEITH COUTTS ALONG WITH US ON THE RUN LOOKING LIKE HIS OLD SELF.

THANKS TO PETE AND MAUREEN WEST FOR ALL THE HELP IN ORGANISING OUR FIRST RUN AND DOING A RECCE WITH MYSELF AND BARBARA, AND ALSO SHIRLEY AND TIM FOR AL THEIR SUPPORT AND BACK UP.

CREDIT: MICHAEL SENIOR

EAST SIDE STORY RUN – TIM & SHIRLEY PICKETT –SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13

WE MET UP AT THE PEAR TREE FARM PUB AT MONKS CROSS FOR A BREAKFAST AT 9 AM AND A PROMPT START AT 10.30AM. BRIEFING AT 10.15. ONLY ISSUE WAS WITH MICHAEL COOPER, WHO LOST HIS PHONE. SHIRLEY RANG HIS NUMBER AND HIS POCKET RANG! MUST HAVE PUT IT IN A DIFFERENT ONE TO USUAL!

20 CARS SET OFF INCLUDING AN INTERLOPER, GAVIN, AND BIG TED IN A BMW. WE SET OFF IN AN EXTREMELY DANK AND FOGGY NORTH YORKSHIRE TO A SHORT STOP OFF AT ELVINGTON AIR MUSEUM FOR A TWO-MINUTE SILENCE FOR ARMISTICE DAY. WE WERE VERY LUCKY AS WE WERE INVITED INTO THE MEMORIAL GARDEN WHERE A SHORT CEREMONY WAS TAKING PLACE WITH SOME RAF PERSONELL: VERY MOVING. GROUP PHOTOS FOLLOWED, KINDLY TAKEN BY OUR PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE DAY DAVE MORFORD.

WE SET OFF FOR A CROSS COUNTY RUN TO MR MOO’S ICE CREAM PARLOUR AT SKIPSEA ON THE EAST YORKSHIRE COAST. MAIN ROADS WHERE USED AS THE SCENIC ROADS TO POCKLINGTON WHERE CLOSED DUE TO BRIDGE REPAIRS. THE ROADS IMPROVED AFTER POCKLINGTON. HIGHLIGHTS WERE AVOIDING SUICIDAL PHEASANTS, EXTREME FOG OVER THE TOP OF THE WOLDS, WITH AN EXTREMELY SCARY RIGHT HAND TURN IN HEAVY FOG ONTO THE A166 AT GARROWBY HILL. ALL CARS WERE PLASTERED IN MUD FROM THE NEARBY QUARRIES!

WE ALL GOT A BIT SPLIT UP HERE AND I WAS IN THE SECOND PACK, AND WE GOT CAUGHT BEHIND THE SLOWEST, MOST CAREFUL DRIVER IN YORKSHIRE, NO OVERTAKING WAS POSSIBLE DUE TO THE DENSE FOG.

AS WE GOT TO DRIFFIELD THE FOG THINNED TO A MISTIER CONSISTENCY AND WE PROGRESSED NICELY TO SKIPSEA ALONG THE DRIFFIELD CANAL, BUT WITH SOME UNCERTAINTY WHERE THE PARLOUR WAS. HOWEVER, WE SOON FOUND THE STOP OFF AT MR MOO’S. TEA, COFFEE, AND ICE CREAM WAS CONSUMED!

AFTER HALF AN HOUR, WE SET OFF TO ALLERTHORPE LAKELAND PARK TRAVELLING ON SOME LOVELY ROADS BACK ACROSS THE WOLDS, WHICH ARE NORMALLY VERY SCENIC BUT, DUE TO THE WEATHER ONLY THE HEDGES WERE SEEN. A TRAFFIC INCIDENT NEAR WARTER WITH A BIKER DOWN HELD US UP BUT HE WAS SOON RECOVERED. HOPE HE’S OK! POCKLINGTON TOWN CENTRE WAS BLOCKED FOR THE PARADES, SO WE HAD TO NEGOTIATE AROUND THE TOWN AND AFTER A WAIT TO REFORM THE CONVOY WERE SOON AT ALLERTHORPE.

17 CARS WHERE STILL WITH US AT THE END. SOME DRIVERS SET OFF AND OTHERS HUNG AROUND AND HAD COFFEE.

WE HAD A GREAT DAY OUT DESPITE THE WEATHER, I THINK WE WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN DOING MUCH WITHOUT THE RUN AND IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED WE RE-RUN THIS EVENT NEXT YEAR BUT A LITTLE EARLIER IN THE YEAR.

A BIG THANK YOU TO SHIRLEY & TIM

CREDIT: ANDY AND HELEN BRAIMBRIDGE

HAWTHORNE FARM SOCIAL – PETER & MAUREEN WEST – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19

A VERY FOGGY EVENING SAW TEN MEMBERS CONVERGE ON HAWTHORN FARM NEAR YEADON AIRPORT. AFTER EVERYONE WAS SETTLED WITH BEVERAGES, WE HAD A GOOD NATTER AND DISCUSSED FOOD OPTIONS. SEVEN OF US OPTED FOR THE SUNDAY CARVERY WHICH WAS GOOD VALUE WITH PLENTY OF CHOICE FOR VEGETABLES, LOVELY YORKSHIRES AND THICK GRAVY. ONE MEMBER CHOSE CURRY AND TWO CHOSE THE PIE OF THE DAY. THE PIES WERE MAHOOSIVE!!! ONE OR TWO ALSO DECIDED ON A SWEET AND THE SUNDAES WERE EXCELLENT.

SHIRLEY HELD THE CUSTOMARY RAFFLE WITH EVERYONE RECEIVING A PRIZE. AS USUAL THER WAS PLENTY OF AMUSEMENT BEFORE THE STAFF CLEARED UP AND IT LOOKED LIKE WE WERE IN THE WAY. ACTUALLY, IT WAS JUST THE END OF FOOD SERVICE BUT TIME WAS PASSING AND IT WAS WELL PAST MY BEDTIME SO WE WENT OUR SEPARATE WAYS HOME.

SPECIAL MENTION MUST BE MADE TO SUE AND IAN ROWLEY WHO CAME ALL THE WAY FROM SCARBROUGH FOR THE EVENT.