silky fox

will do tommorow john...its just taken me two hours to put them on my thread...off to Bed....had a great time! same time ,same place next xmas!!!

Part 2. The morning after... Woke up about 3 a.m...supped a beer and drifted nicely off to sleep:001_rolleyes:...John left about 7 a.m...it was a beautiful blue sky morning and i went for a morning stroll...This is an corner of England that is green,pleasent and unspoilt. the gently rolling hills are dotted with Oaks and neatly cut hedges...Tuckers sits at the crossroads and is named after a poor soul who hung himself in a barn a couple of hundered years ago...it is a popular haunt of the Stranglers and they are to be found there before they go on tour also frequented by the Wurzels...said goodbye to Marc and Ranger Matt who admitted that he was feeling rather unwell:001_huh: So that left just me and Eggsarascel...we both felt great! no hangover...and fit as a fiddle...we hadn,t planned to do the return journey till a couple of hours later so.......Off to Tuckers for some more Scrumpy:thumbup:

You would have fitted right in Johny:lol: catch up with the story on Silky,s thread:001_smile:

Good Evening Arbtalk! or is it good morning:confused1:...For the record,"Tucker,s Grave Inn,Somerset" is the Best Brtitish Ale House! I did most of my formative Ale supping around Durham and Newcastle and have taken part in some Epic sessions but this was a bit special... it,s like going back in time and time itself stands still when you are within it,s walls...there is no bar,no music...no T.V...just great Scrumpy cider and Ale:thumbup: we started about 12 o,clock and had a couple of halfs with Mendiplogs and Mrs mendiplogs,Bob Slade and Eggsarascal....this took place in what the guide book describes as "The centre of the universe" The Bar area to you and me where apparantly ferret racing used to take place ammongst other persuits.The Cider has such a vibrant Orange colour which is down to the carrot extract...it is delicious and three halfs lasted me the whole afternoon! Bob kept us enthralled with his Ballooning tales.When he left we went of to get some food...i had fish and chips and John and Eggsy had a fry up...we popped into John,s local for a Thatchers...quite ammusing as John carried Douglas (His dog) under his arm everywhere he went:lol: then it was back to Tuckers and the Tap room and this time it was Pints and Jugs( £10) of the Orange stuff:biggrin: We were joined by Treepee,Marc lewis,Ranger Matt SamArb and Gensetsteve Who educated us in the science of logs:thumbup1: That is the last thing i remember..........

Popped into jons local...The kings head...gathering momentum now:beer:

MR BULLMAN if you are there...i'm trying to get tapatalk on jons i phone...its asking me what the forum system is:confused:

Sitting in MACDONALDS car park using their wifi:rolleyes: okay...story so far...met Eggsarascal at the green man hatton cross...whats that in yer mouth eggsy....?? Within seconds if arriving after a 120mile drive from suffolk he'd turned right when he shouldn't been pulled breathalised and 3 points on his xlean license:eek: Bob Slade jouned us for a half...good bloke...more later! The MAIN EVENT:cool::beer::beer: p.s Jon bought a nice new camera so will be testing it:)

You will be there in Spirit!....keep watching as i shall be posting events as they happen!...just had a call from Eggsarascal and he,s on his way where i shall meet him at "The Green Man" at Hatton Cross...famous haunt of Dick Turpin and a Damn Good place to start this journey....no kit to carry,no baggage whatsoever(Except a hat for Jon) not even my trusty Silky....

You can never have too much kindling:thumbup1:

exactly

On a radio programme last night there was a discussion about how large the rat population was...they used scientific methods to calculate that although humans outnumber rats...there are approximatly ten million rats in britain....7 of which are to be found in the countryside and the remaining 3 million in cities...

Off for some Big ZZZZEDS!!! see y'all tommorow:cool:

Green Man 10 bells:thumbup:

Very True Drew! P.S the Arb Manager is a kiwi so he should know better Ay??

Rain, rain and more rain today....5 reductions got done so well done team Tango although the Arb manager got his pulley saver stuck on the last tree and had to do the climb of shame:biggrin: Matty F put up a very Valid point in the thread about stuck ART Pulleys....make sure you have a retrievable angle when you pull or it will hold fast...very true Matt.... I got to work with my new fellow Groundie/2nd climber and was suitably impressed...a Grafter with experience... Ok,work over for the week and only one week to go until payday!!! i,ve waited 5 or 6 weeks:001_huh: XMAS Starts here! off to grab a Thatchers or two just to warm up for ZUMMERSET tommorow... see ya tommorow Jon!

Whoever,s going tommorow say,"I"... "I"

See yo tommorow Eggsy,Jon ,Marc and Matt and anyone else that,s pops into Tuckers:biggrin:

It,s Friday and at last the great day has almost arrived. I met Mendiplogs on my way to this years APF when he offered me a lift there...he was such a nice fellow that we arranged a meeting in the Tucker,s Grave Inn near Somerset...and that is TOMMOROW! So i,ve charged up my Mobile,put in a 4GB micro SD and Eggsarascal is giving me a lift from London:thumbup1: it should only take a couple of hours...i am REALLY looking forward to this one....it willl be the beginning of my Xmas celebrations and a kind of culmination of my travelling towards my thread...i will of course post a full description of the event and lots of photos...John is putting me up in his caravan for the night and we shall be dining on finest Steak that i shall bring him from Pether,s Butchers here in Kew:001_smile: Today we have one of our last days on Turnham Green before we move off to another Park...all that,s left to do is reduce these Limes around the church... Grab the Bigshot!!

That,s okay:001_smile: i,ve been called worse by an ex or two in the past:001_rolleyes:

Me Too!

i,m no city man...i,m a Northumbrian:001_smile:

I,ll bring the manilla

BBQ is just outdoor cooking Jon....Every weather is BBQ weather...Man up!:lol:it,s not even cold yet:biggrin:

Jon says he,s bringing a BBQ so i reckon i,ll bring some stuff from the Butchers...

Very well done! bet you feel so much better and you,ll find it a lot easier climbing!