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by **Mrs H.** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:59 pm

Young Neville also got a 10 second run in - shame about the mis-punch :cry:

by **Blanka** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:07 pm

How did AIRE and SLOW manage to get some Swiss Junior Nationals to run for them?

by **Dan** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:59 pm

They have been living in england since JEC in England in October au-pairing with orienteering families. They live in the AIRE and SLOW areas and are club members, dont see any problem in them running

by **stodge** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:06 am

A 13min digest of the webcam is now available on the chasers website
http://www.walton-chasers.co.uk

including the bit where I say nope our converstaion is live on the web :oops:

please try to download and share to save our bandwidth.

Planners, Controllers comments and photos also available.

by **Blanka** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:23 am

Dan wrote:They have been living in england since JEC in England in October au-pairing with orienteering families. They live in the AIRE and SLOW areas and are club members, dont see any problem in them running

I didn't mean to sound they shouldn't run. I was just interested.. since I hadn't seen the names before and typing them into google came up with their profiles as Swiss Junior Team members.

Cheers,

Blanka

by **bendover** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:45 am

stodge wrote:A 13min digest of the webcam is now available on the chasers website
http://www.walton-chasers.co.uk

quality, got that to work! thanks for getting my dad and my mate gavin (looking ridiculously sweaty) to say hi!

ben

by **Mrs H.** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:51 pm

I think the whole thing was a total triumph - well done Walton Chasers for making it a really fun occasion and well done OD for pulling victory out of the bag. We all thoroughly enjoyed it and i saw the light go on in the eyes of a few of our newer members as they were cheered in up the run in - I reckon they'll be back for more of that! (HOC are still definitely the noisiest club around).

Nice to see BOF have recognised this great occasion by totally ignoring it on their news page so far - prefering to spot light Haglofs' Special Christmas offer to members . :roll:

by **awk** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:58 pm

Mrs H. wrote:Nice to see BOF have recognised this great occasion by totally ignoring it on their news page so far - prefering to spot light Haglofs' Special Christmas offer to members .

Bearing in mind, of course, that without substantial input of BOF money and professional time over the past years, the Yvette Baker Trophy would not exist at all.

Anyway, have sent BOF office a news item to put up, so hopefully that side of things will get corrected in the not too distant future.

by **Mrs H.** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:05 pm

awk wrote:[ BOF money and professional time .

The money is ours - don't make it sound like BOF are being generous by letting us have the use of some of it - and the professional time is paid for by us as well!

by **rob f** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:14 pm

Mrs H. wrote:
awk wrote:[ BOF money and professional time .

The money is ours - don't make it sound like BOF are being generous by letting us have the use of some of it - and the professional time is paid for by us as well!

Here Here, Very true.

Dan wrote:They have been living in england since JEC in England in October au-pairing with orienteering families. They live in the AIRE and SLOW areas and are club members, dont see any problem in them running

Two or three norwegians were running for EBOR too, who are at york college.

by **awk** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:09 pm

Mrs H. wrote:
awk wrote:[ BOF money and professional time .

The money is ours - don't make it sound like BOF are being generous by letting us have the use of some of it - and the professional time is paid for by us as well!

It depends what you mean by "ours". If you mean taxpayers' money, then yes, I'd agree - but then that is not 'ours', not once it's in the government's hands. If you mean money paid for by members through membership or levy, then no, it isn't. The time was paid for by Sport England, and the money was sourced from them.

And the fact of the matter is that the YBT still probably wouldn't exist today if it hadn't been driven forward by BOF.

by **mharky** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:34 pm

exactly, one you pay your BOF membership the money is theirs to spend on the sport.

if you dont like what they do go orienteering in another country and pay their membership fees

by **Mrs H.** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:38 pm

The YBT is exactly what they should be spending their money on ( oh incidentally I thought BOF was Us and Ours not Them and Theirs - or does that not apply when it comes to handing out the money) Of course I mean tax payers' money and lottery money as well as subs and levies. God knows they get enough from me and my family, I'd like to know where some of it goes - I certainly wasn't allowed to have any when I asked for some to provide a bus for unattached juniors to go to the JK (probably had none left after the squad inaugural weekend :wink:

).
They still havn't got your YBT report up AWK - funny they were so quick on the draw with the Derek Allison Award story they broke the embargo (They'll be losing some of that government funding if they do that too often - it serious stuff).

by **awk** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:03 am

Of course the YBT is exactly what BOF should be spending money on. My point was simply that this showed that YBT was not the low priority affair you made it out to be, an argument based solely on the fact that an article hadn't been sent in to the office. Actually, it was good to see both BOF's development officers at the event yesterday, and the prizes being presented by one of the regional officers (with another one there managing her club team). Whether they were in a voluntary or professional capacity doesn't really bother me - they were there, and even those who were there volunatrily seemed to be getting work done!

I'm not really surprised that my article hasn't been published yet. It was sent at around five to five tonght.

By the way, typing this is a nightmare It was bad enough that Nopesport screens were black on dark grey, they are now black on black!!!!! Think a contribution on the Bugs thread is needed!

by **Mrs H.** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:09 am

awk wrote: - they were there, and even those who were there volunatrily seemed to be getting work done!

there you go again making it sound like we should be impressed - this is what should be happening and i'd have been very un-impressed if it wasn't - lots of us were there and getting work done - even i was collecting in trophies for next week and booking fab musical acts for the JK Banter evening

I say AWK - do you not think samsonite is trying to tell you something by making it difficult for you to post - it isn't happening to me, Ha ha ha :wink:

(article still not up - you'd have thought with all those development officers there, one of them might have been able to string a paragraph together for Monday morning :shock:

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