rambo1969 Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Left work at 2.30am friday morning and headed of to meet my dad at fleet services. Met up with dad and made our way to the new venue, it was chucking it down with rain until about 10 miles from venue. When we arrived, chef ives was there already and was all set up, so we were met with a very welcome brew. Tent all set up; I then decide to have a little sleep, and when I woke up chef ives, under much duress was thrown out of his kitchen and told to take it easy, much to my amazement, my dad and pete were doing the cooking! It's the 1st time ive ever seen my dad do any cooking! This was tier efforts for fridays dinner, and very nice it was to. A few from the flying museum we visited on saturday; The heuy below was captured during the falklands conflict and used as a medical helicoper; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ives Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 rambo rebecca still hasnt stopped about your driving lesson :D great relaxing weekend roll on 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambo1969 Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 A few more; At the local petrol garage en route to the plains; David Ives brought along his daughter who had her 1st ever driving lesson from me in my landy; Entering the plains; We met father christmas at the plains, apperently he was lost! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambo1969 Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 We then had a drive around the plains then headed to the ranges for tea and lunch, when we got there the army had dragged a few of the wrecks off the ranges and put then in the car park, as you can imagine, we were all over them! I found this is 1 of them, the date on it is 1977; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambo1969 Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 As we headed off the plains we stopped for a pee pee break, so I parked my landy up in the woods for a picture; As I headed into the woods for a pee I founds these!, they were left well alone! Below is some random bloke who lives near by and forages of the land, called yogi I was told, he can be seen looking up at the stars looking for aliens!:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambo1969 Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 All in all, a fantastic weekend with no rain and glorious sunshine. The 1 thing that was present all weekend was laughter!, we all had a great time. A big thank you to pete, tony and phil for organising such a brilliant weekend. A big thank you to chef ives for the food as well, sooo nice waking up to a cooked breakfast!, he even made me a big bowl of custard at 11pm! The farmer who let us use his land was brilliant, a big thank you mr farmer. Sadly pete was taken to hospital over the weekend for an operation, hope your bum gets better pete, and don't worry, whats happens on tour, stays on tour!!:nut::-D Roll on next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisg Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 All in all, a fantastic weekend with no rain and glorious sunshine.The 1 thing that was present all weekend was laughter!, we all had a great time. A big thank you to pete, tony and phil for organising such a brilliant weekend. A big thank you to chef ives for the food as well, sooo nice waking up to a cooked breakfast!, he even made me a big bowl of custard at 11pm! The farmer who let us use his land was brilliant, a big thank you mr farmer. Sadly pete was taken to hospital over the weekend for an operation, hope your bum gets better pete, and don't worry, whats happens on tour, stays on tour!!:nut::-D Roll on next year. I can only echo what rambo has posted many thanks everyone :clap::clap::clap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 sounds like you all had a great time, i must admit i'm pretty jealous but there's always next year. did anyone take anymore pics of the range wrecks and what was there to see. all the best eddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plainmilitary Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Another year, another Plains weekend. I speak for all the organisers of the plains team when I say thank you. Thank you to you all that took the time out to come down to our little weekend and support us. May I also echo Rambo's words when he say's a weekend of laughter, Rich, Dan and Fred, you guys need to write a book. My highlights from the weekend. Meeting up with old friends from past Plains weekends, Dave and those breakfasts, dinners and teas, top dog dude. Latenight chats around what should have been a BBQ, but ended up as the camp fire and a source of much needed warmth. Fred winding Yogi up about aliens and being beamed up by spaceships. Rich and his Wolves, Fred and the man in the sports bag, Dan and that dog, Oye and ChrisG nodding off in the standing position. The visit to Wallop was great and Rich, don't forget to reserch that grave mate..... The convoy was for me one of the best and Steve has got some of the best pictures I have ever seen from any of the weekends..... Seeing the smiles on the faces of all the kids that got to ride in some of the vehicles was truly amazing, seeing the smiles on Yogi, mark and Grahams faces when they got the chance to drive the matador and Champ. I think I will be hearing about this for months to come..... One of the biggest surprizes for me was a visit from the ex Major of the Gurka Regiment and his kind offer of help and support in future Plains weekends..... It was just a shame you all had to go home.... Lastly, may I just take a moment to thank the following for all there help in making this weekend what it was. Graham, Mark and Yogi, without you guys and your kind offer and hard work, made this weekend. It's been a long road guys but we got there. Phil Plumb, Dave Ives, Criss Whiles and Steve P, many many thanks for everything. I will always be in the debt. Finally a big thank you to Dapper, Pete, Russ and Bonk, Many many thanks for the help over the weekend. Talk has already started for next years weekend, I was asked over the weekend if we could have a website for this event, the answer to this is yes. I will start work on it very soon. The picture will start being post very soon. All the best guys and see you all soon. Tony...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oily Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 .....nice to see you had such good weather!.....it'd be really nice to know when you're planning your next one, -it'd be great to join in the fun!, maybe my saracen will be fixed in time!:cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
118thsignalsregiment Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Thanks again for tp the organisers it was a great weekend and Im really looking forwad to the next one. A few pictures I took can be seen on my blog: http://118thsignalsregiment.blog.co.uk/ Thanks Steve 118th Please Support: Bournemouth Aviation Museum Military Vehicle and Cockpit day Sunday26th September 2010 www.aviation-museum.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ashley Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Hi all, looks as if you all had a great weekend, sorry i had to miss it some nice pictures all going well i shall make it next year. Well done all as i was indesposed i sent some Dorset cannon fodder for you to initiate sound as if they had fun Ashley P.S. did the skittles take place ??? and what was the result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisg Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 no skittles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashley Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 So we are stil the reigning (UNDEFEATED) champions then :-D:-D Ashley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashley Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 So we are still the reigning (UNDEFEATED) champions then :-D:-D Ashley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisg Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Yes :clap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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