East midlands - new social venue

Finally the official report - sorry for the delay but we made arrangements on Saturday for the next social and I wanted to confirm the details before posting anything.

The event was attended by 4 teams and the food was good and the little corner that we were in was cosy and quiet enough to hold a conversation without having to shout.

Steve Woolsey wins the long distance award by a very large margin - well done, hope you got to bed at a reasonable hour.

Subjects discussed were the vote for the possible weight limit change for feathers, I was surprised that the overwhelming views were to keep it as it is.

The Merlin team was asked if a future social could be held in their area, and we could all go for a play later at their feather arena in the back garden. Mike went one better and suggested we have a barbie in the back garden instead of meeting in a pub. Everyone agreed and Kevin Scott suggested we bring alond some heavies for a photo shoot. Provisionally we will be looking at early June, further details to follow as arrangements are made. If this date clashes with any other I would like to know fairly soon so that we can re-arrange.

There was a nostalgic look back to teams past experiences at RW and Technogames, and a few funny experiences recounted.

We did talk about a lot more things but I cant remember what they were about, I think I may have had too much beer! I will arrange a social at the same place again April 2nd.

The next regional meeting is up north with Jeremy Cuss at Floxton in March

I have arranged another social for Saturday 2nd april 7.30pm, anyone welcome to attend.

Please e-mail to confirm so that I can reserve enough area of seating. If anyone wishes to join us for a meal we are sitting down at 7pm but seats must be booked before Saturday, so drop me a line and I can arrange it.

Directions for the evening are as at the beginning of this thread.

Trev

Trev,

Im looking forward to it, and would like to eat with you at 7pm.

Jeremy

Jonno and I will be along after you have eaten your meal. So about 7:30pm ish i assume.

Mr Stu

Trev - change of plans at home, which means I can make it now as well :)
Will be after your meal.
Kev.

Finally an event report - been busy last week preparing for Denbigh.

The event was well attended, 6 teams in all - MM, Chompalot, Stinger, Merlin, Herbinator, Tilly plus Jonno, Stu, and Jonnos dad of Roaming Robots.

I would like to say we spent the evening in deep discussion about the future of roboteering and the impact of new rule changes. I cant because we didnt. We had our own little corner, a cracking meal and a few beers and I think we talked robots occaisionally. In truth it was a social and everyone was being very social - especially Jonno.

The long distance award was hard to decide, Jeremy and Kevin are roughly the same distance, but Pete Lale came the long way round from Worksop and Stu came from Redditch (but he was in Nottingham anyway).

The next social is oop north with Jeremy first Saturday of May, the next social after that will be the first Sat in June and be at the home of the Merlin team. They have offered to give up their back garden and have a barbie. They also have their own feather arena in the garden so anyone wishing to attend can bring their feathers or any other toys and have a play.

Please post here if you wish to attend.

These socials are not limited to members of the East Mids region, Merlin are at the very south of our region (nr, Loughborough). Non FRA members are also more than welcome to attend

Trev

hey... im always social... i dont know what your talking about !!! :)

jonno

ill come to the socail at the merlins house but watch out there dogs rip kids heads off :)
all the better to bring matthew then (alan,david) :)

This Saturdays social is still on if enough people are interested. Because of the clash with Eds event this weekend I was expecting to cancel, but not many from our area are going.

If interested please post here so we can finalise details.

Trev

is this the one at the youngs house ???

id be more willing, to travel just a few miles from my house to the pub where it was last time :)