REVISED: Landy Rally New Year Bash - 21-23 January 2011

Directions to the pub from the hotel...


What the pub looks like in the flesh...


open untill 1am if people are buying
let them know who you are when you go in they are nice people

cheers kieran

kieran wrote:

let them know who you are when you go in they are nice people

They aren't nice to people that don't introduce themselves?

andybloke wrote:

kieran wrote:

let them know who you are when you go in they are nice people

They aren't nice to people that don't introduce themselves?

That's not a map, that's a wiring diagram.

FIRESTARTER!!!

I've PM'd Kieran with our menus (albeit last minute as usual) - have you?

yes all done, you'r slow againe

No not yet!


But then he hasn't come home yet !

Just in case ...

The Swan & Salmon
Watchorn Lane
off Derby Road
Alfreton
Derbyshire
DE55 7AT

See you there people!

Grrrr. I'm running late. About 12 hours behind schedule at the moment for family reasons. Hope to be with you at some point tomorrow morning.

Can I be first to say thank you to everyone who joined in with the "Christmas" do this weekend. We had a lot of fun especially meeting everyone again, particularly meeting some new faces from Holland and Southampton!

I hope everyone else had as much fun as we did - I guess I will have to start digging the mud of Lenny sometime. Perhaps it will rain and then I can just clean it off the drive!!

I will put some of our pics on later.

The Dutchies have just left - well, about 16:00. Three hour drive to the ferry in Hull and off they go.

We actually manged to arise this morning and visit the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon as planned. I know them down there , had a chat about this and that, next thing they are presenting us with complimentary entry to all five of us .... saving a total of £55; thank you kindly!

They too had a great time so asked me to thank everyone for the welcome.

Likewise I want to thank everyone who helped organise the weekend, especially Kieran and James who I believe did the bulk of the organisation. Shame I had to withdraw Sunday with a bad back (pulled muscle or something whilst slipping on that claggy mud at the off-road site) and also to everyone who turned up. It was a fair ol' trot from both Aberdeen and Southampton, so fair play for making the effort.

Next Landy Rally bash over in Holland in May. Can't wait!

Well, Saturday evening and Sunday were fun. Missed the off-road course on Saturday, but the evening in the pub and the treasure hunt on Sunday were good fun!

Well done and thank you to Kieran, James and the Johnson clan for all their effort before and during the weekend (and for driving me back to the hotel on Sunday night). Thanks, too, to Paul/Intelmental1 for taking me along on the treasure hunt.

It was nice to see all the teams and potential teams for and from Landy Rally

pinky is nice and muddy, perhaps a bad idea to wear white trousers today

Pictures will be uploaded into a Gallery on Free Spirit 4x4's Gallery page as when i return to Buxton to collect the camera cable

The final total for Friday night is £200 for Macmillan cancer support
Or well it would be but Paul kindly reminded me that i would donate £1 for everyone wearing a green shirt including me bringing the total up to £204

Today I spent 3 hours at the swan and salmon pub gave them a thanks card and a box of chocolates for their great service and food !!! on Saturday night, same heading to the Naaz.

for those interested i am contemplating a similar weekend early - midsummer but not using a off-road site, doing one day of green lanes in Derbyshire camping at the waterloo inn and then heading through some notts green lanes Sunday to finish at a pub with a close by camp site see website soon for more info


Cheers kieran

We would like to add our thanks to Kieran and his team for their well organised weekend. We had a good time and will look forward to perhaps coming to the camping weekend. It is good to be able to put faces to the names we see on the forum.

Who knows perhaps we can get some more of the Shires mob to make the trip up in the summer.

Richard & Tracy

Opps! Thanks for the unintentional reminder Andybloke. Forgot to thank Keith for the chauffeur service to and from Mansfield. Do like that Chevy day van, oozes class.

Hi an a big thank you to Kieran, James and the Johnson clan, for a great weekend, and to meet everbody who came along, and made the weekend a great laugh, includeing the 2 nights eateriers and drinks.

Just finished work after coming in Holland at 9, this morning
Also from us Dutchies (all 4) A big thank you to all people involved in organising this event. We really had great fun this weekend. Luckily nothing got broke.(Except my headlights don't work anymore now). Missed my challengecar on the playground. Was a terrific terrain. Very much enjoyed the greenlanes. What a marvallous roads you have overthere. Envy you Was first time my son did terrain and greenlaning on his own. Think he did quite well. Anyway he loved it.

Kieran, I remembered wrong: thought I should wear orange. Too bad green i have a lot more of.

Well, just thought the Dirties (and Team No Muckin' Abaht :clown: ), would add a big thanks for all the work that went into organising the weekend, and for the good company that went along with it.

We particularly enjoyed the Jaffa Cakes!! (Thanks James).

And it appears the duck eggs have gone missing. Have they gone the way of all LandyRally eggs, we wonder?

Roll on May!

rumor has it they are still cooking on james dash board, last i heard from james was that his head gasket had gone so ive no idea when i will be reunited with them

Great weekend.... thanks to all that made it fantastic. Good to see the old crowd and nice to meet the new. I think I have finally recovered

The Jeep is still muddy inside, need to have a good clean out this weekend. Just getting round to uploading videos, didnt take many pics but have a couple to post.

here is one to start.... Jeeps rule - OK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55OwstLkmgc

This one is the best video I did all weekend I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUsx7eAprY

Enjoy !

Mr. Matt Savage's Awesome UniMog in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xUPGa2wYNU

It would be interesting to see how many seconds it would take on dry grass, bearing in mind that even dry grass retains enough moisture to make spinning/sliding easy.

You did well there at 33 seconds seeing as though you were driving on the equivalent of sheet ice!

As for the ground anchor, they are great bits of kit. The Aussies produce one which has a hinged spade, thus making on-boad storage even easier. I love 'em.

Two types if you're interested -

www.pullpal.com - the Yank version

and

www.x-eng.co.uk/X-Anchor.asp - the British

and

www.extreme4x4.co.uk/acatalog/GROUND_GRABBER.html - U.S. product sold here

Jaap's had a hinge on it... not sure how the spade folded up but I guess he will be along later with the spec

If I get a winch I think that will be the next purchase after!!!

intelmental1 wrote:

This one is the best video I did all weekend I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUsx7eAprY

Enjoy !

I like the way you caught Jaap's dancing in slow motion

We didnt have the camcorder with us on Saturday but have posted the photos on Facebook and if I could work out how to put the link in, I'd put them on here !



Well some of them - there's about 80 pics !