Jk - we are getting there!

[Mrs H.]

OK Peeps! just managed to get back on line after last night's JK meeting and have good news - The Committee says Yeah!

You can have your communal tent on the 2 individual days - but apparently not on the relay day for some technical reason - something to do with it being under trees!

There will be a 20x 20 foot marquee for communal use by anyone who doesn't have a club tent - bring your own things to sit on - and i think nope will be in there too. Hoorah!

You can also have your dedicated phone line on Saturday night (6-8pm?) to check on your elite start times - i hope you're pleased with me Greame -

I am still struggling on the bus - JJ's only have one minibus available. I'm thinking of asking BSOA if they can somehow access some of their members' mini-buses which will be lying idle over the easter holidays - payment over expenses may not be possible but donations to BSOA would i'm sure be welcome what do you think Hocolite?

Sunday night entertainment - I'm serious about some low key background home made entertainment with a couple of banter sessions thrown in (nope video? bingo? - who knows) Keep talking to me!

[PorkyFatBoy]

There will be a 20x 20 foot marquee for communal use by anyone who doesn't have a club tent

so it's big enough to put the new SUFFOC club tent inside it then...

http://www.elc.co.uk/key-13700/sku-1016 ... Product.do

[mharky]

thats not a bad idea, somwhere to put you kit in whilst your out running. briliant

[Guest]

Are you going to the BSOA AGM Sat Nov 6th at Oakridge Primary School. Best place to ask though there aren't too mant BSOA members to my knowledge in that area.
HOCOLITE

[Mrs H.]

Good god Mharky that's the first time you've ever approved of anything I've said ro done. Next time i'm standing behind you in the o-ringen bus queue I might actually dare to say hello.

G if you are thinking of subverting all your fewllow alkos off to the flesh pots of Lichfield on sunday night you better let me know so i can change the slant of the evening.

No i shant be at the meeting - but you might whu not ask Peter christohpher himself for me please ( he must have some mini buses)

[Guest]

Peter Christopher is pensioner now!!! Why would he have a minibus. NEway his school is in Brum.

Hocolite

[Mrs H.]

C'mon G you miss this campsite and you'll regret it, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow - but some time soon and for the rest of your life

You can sleep in your own bed any old day - this is a 3 day only opportunity and people will be talking about it for years - won't they samsonite?

Oh i didn't know Peter had retired - well if you don't think BSOA wanta the money i'll try else where (Brum isn't the otherside of the known universe from lichfield)

[samsonite]

gareth

behave yourself

of course you are hanging oot with us at the campsite.

there will be much banter

[Brizzle]

Don't listen to them! Im sure there would be much banter at G's house anyway, only it would be warm and dry.

[samsonite]

gaz u r having your shindig in conjunction with ours and thats final. or i'll send the boys round.

[graeme]

You can have your communal tent on the 2 individual days - but apparently not on the relay day for some technical reason - something to do with it being under trees!

There will be a 20x 20 foot marquee for communal use by anyone who doesn't have a club tent - bring your own things to sit on - and i think nope will be in there too. Hoorah!

You can also have your dedicated phone line on Saturday night (6-8pm?) to check on your elite start times - i hope you're pleased with me Greame -

I don't like to mention this, since you're obviously doing such a great job, but, er, well, um, that's not quite what *I* asked about which was a creche tent and correct details about elite starts for split-starters in the programme.

Graeme

[gross2004]

I don't think you can have split starts for the elites on either day of the JK (well 21e's). Both are WRE which places restrictions on what can be done.

[Mrs H.]

You've just ruined my evening anyway - What you said was

Even if its only a big tent where all the kiddies can go to play, rather than sit in the car in the March rain for four hours.

Even if you supply no manpower and have a requirement that the parents hang around.

and presumably if you ring the phone line you'll get the correct information
the co-ordinator has also promised the following

Re Elite start times:

1. We intend to post them at the race site at the end of Day One
2. We intend to post them up onto the net at the end of Day One
3. We intend to both have some available for spectators and some
posted at the Day 2 race site

But, (she says wearily,) i will raise your specific quiery with him

[graeme]

I don't think you can have split starts for the elites on either day of the JK (well 21e's). Both are WRE which places restrictions on what can be done.

That would be fine. Except that's what they told us last time and it wasn't so.

You've just ruined my evening anyway - What you said was

Sorry It just sounded like the big tent would be a free-for-all and not child friendly.

Graeme (Still working on a big tent for the Scottish)

[Mrs H.]

Graeme my friend. Gift Horse. Mouth. Looking. are some words that are coming nto my mind at the moment.

You've asked for a big tent - i've got one for you - i managed to procure it on the grounds that it would be good for people who did not have a club tent or who needed a bit of space - like foreigners or families - what you do in it is up to you - I cant organise what's going on inside it - i'm actually event centre manager and this is way outside my remit - but i did it because you asked for it - i'll be bloody lucky to get a run at all - which will be a shame as I aim to kick ass in my first year on W 50s and with my new bionic contact lens etc - I am not (NOT) going to look after your children too! (but i might be able to lend you my children to look after your children if they are back from their runs)

Most foreigners have given up eating children these day too - so I consider the two groups to be compatible.