East midlands - new social venue

I have arranged a social for the East Midlands (Notts, Derby, Leics and Lincs) to run alternately with Jeremy Cuss in the Yorkshire area on Saturday 5th February.

Although we are one region not everyone finds it possible to attend due to the distances needing to be travelled, and a lot of roboteers have expressed a desire to attend a social in their area.

The venue is the Crusader public house and restaurant. It is situated on the first island on the A453 from junction 24 of the M1 towards Nottingham. It is within a 25 mile range of most roboteers in the south of the East mids region.

When I can work out how to post a link from Multimap I will re-post. Many roboteers will have driven past the Crusader on their way to RAF Newton in the past so will be familiar with the area.

I have reserved a small corner of the lounge, although food is served until 8pm we are not obliged to eat. On the other hand I can vouch for the quality of the food and have eaten there many times, should anyone wish to eat I would recommend arriving about 7pm, the social to start around 7.30.

Thats all for now, if anyone is planning to attend please e-mail me or post on this thread and I can get a rough idea of who is coming.

Trev

I think this link should work - no doubt someone will tell me if it doesnt.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=52.9043&lon=-1.1876&scale=200000&icon=xhttp://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...le=200000&icon =x

Cheers

Trev

We will be there.

Arr my meeting point to meet jonno to go to his house. LOL! Would love to come, just not sure if i will due to if it starts at 7:30pm, means i need to leave hosue about 6:45pm and thats sadly main traffic, take ages to get there.... will see. If its a saturday could pop up earlier and visit my mean boss first. LOL.

Mr Stu

Trev,

Best of luck with your first East Midlands FRA Social. I would love to be there, but it clashes with a long-standing appointment , as you know. Do post a summary of what goes on, so that I can see what I missed.

Best wishes,

Jeremy

Stu - Who said we were letting Brummies in? :mrgreen:

Id like to make it, having ditched my saturday nightshift, but I still have to work until 7pm. Coming straight from work, thats a couple of hours for me, so a little more than stylishly late.

On the plus side, I should be able to start attending the Lincoln meets again :)

Techly, im not a Brummie.
Live in Redditch - 25 Miles Away from Birmingham So naaaa :proud:

Mr Stu

Nice one Trev.
Ill be there. Let me know if your eating first, I may be tempted to come for 7.00
Kev

Im not a Brummie... Stu, Redditch MAY be 25 Miles from Birmingham...But thats still too close for comfort...Makes you a Brummie in my books!! :proud:

does that mean that Stu drives an old clapped out car with wierd head lights, fenders, bad choice of paint work and open topped? AKA Brum?

I guess that means Stu is a brummie

Mike.

LOL!!!!!!

Soon to drive a PEUGEOT 206 mike - is that a clapped out car? :proud:

Mr Stu

God dam 206s grrrrrr... :)

LOL Oh well chris.

Mr Stu

PS Mike - i could make the 206 RC but hmmm better not. hehe.

You may laugh Stu, but thats something Id really like to have a go at if I could find an opponent. A friend of mine has donated a clapped-out Renault 5 on the grounds that I can find something cool to do with it... if you can find somewhere safe to hold a remote-controlled car fight please let me know :)

My school tennis court at weekends :proud:

Mr Stu

What was that program that had remote-controlled car battles on it a while back, I think it was on the discovery channel and there was one with a forklift fitted to the rear??

Chris - http://www.featherweights.org/forum

Car Wars? - i remeber that.

Mr Stu

Well be there guys :)

Debs & Si

On mah way

Just got back.
Well done trev on setting up a gr8 social (roboteers sitting around having a laught is what its all about).

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 :)

Yes - be back at the pub next time - early August

If you do want to come, it is very informal. I shall be there at 3pm but leave early.

This post has been added in reply to a question placed in the general section of the forum.....

The socials for East mids and Yorks were well attended in the past, but members are split by a margin of 50 miles and the north south margin meant a long drive and a night in the pub with a maximum of 1 pint all night for the driver. I also never got home before 1am from huddersfield.

It would be good to arrange another evening but somewhere more neutral - just south of Sheffield and close to the M1. If anyone has a suggestion for such a location I will seriousy consider it. I have another motive, as I am being increasingly asked to cast votes on sensitive issues in my capacity on the FRA committee, I would like the views of the people that I am voting for. Sending e-mails is cumbersome and not everyone replies.

The last event I organised we had a cracking meal around a long table - in a pub - and both team MAD and Roaming Robots were in attendance..........

And everyone had a good night........

Any ideas for a venue please e-mail me or post here.

I will also put this on the socials section of the forum.

Trev

(Message edited by mightymouse on August 26, 2007)