The area is famous for its all its bars and pubs and it didn't disappoint. Every pub had friendly staff and we always made to feel welcome even in such a big group, something you wouldn't find in London. The night continued into the early morning as some people tried to drink all the Guinness in Ireland.
Resulting in only a handful of people making it down to the lovely full Irish breakfast that the hotel provided. As people slowly rose from the dead a few of us took the time to explore some of the city in daylight before the flight home. Luckily, we found a few traditional bars in which to rehydrate after the all the walking. The trip was a great success although another night would have been perfect.
I have never attempted anything like this before, so completing this challenge will be a lifetime personal achievement, at the same time, raising funds for a very worthy charity. In short others have been and done it, probably younger and fitter. Some in less time than I propose, but these were supported riders. I will be totally unsupported and alone for 8 days - unless I make friends on the way, or people decide to lend morale support. As someone who has used the facilities and treatment offered by the Firefighter Charity I appreciate what a fantastic service they provide.
They are there to help injured firefighters and their families during their time of need. Please help me raise as much money as Western Area Darts Trip Seven welfare members from Hendon green watch and one from possible for this valuable Barking green watch attended an afternoon session at the PDC charity. Customary for week for a firefighter, spectators to wear fancy dress, we got into the spirit by all donning serving or retired to receive our best Christmas jumpers; rather under fancy dressed compared treatment at one of their to many though.
London skyline before heading inside to grab a liquid lunch and find our seats before the athletes came on stage. After the darts had finished, we took in some more Many Thanks - Nigel London views of the inside of pubs and a curry house to round up a Voyce great day.
Thank you to the welfare section for subsidising this team building justgiving. At the end of the week we all agreed to book next years trip with out delay, and our brilliant tour organisers, Geoff and Carol have already been on the case and booked our next years trip to St Christoph am Arlberg. The area is well for those wanting to take a ski break in the sun! St Anton here we come! I remarked then on how quiet and uspoilt it was and, apart from a few new lifts, I am pleased to report it has hardly changed.
We were certainly in for a week of empty slopes, excellent snow conditions and sunshine and……very freezing temperatures! Boot and ski storage was available close by, so at the end of the day it took just a couple of minutes to take our boots off and dissapear in to the nearest bar - actually the only open one in the village!! Although not as extensive as some resorts, Champoluc, Gressoney and Alagna had some good skiing for all, with as much room to manouver on the pistes as you could wish for.
The mountain restaurants offered reasonabley priced drinks most important! So, overall, the trip was as good and enjoyable as ever, with a few 32 Welfare Fund Magazine Spring It was an enjoyable, vibrant event in which 94 people attended. As usual the venue was decorated to a high standard with all singing and dancing fantastic lighting and decor that brightened up the room, turning the Sir Freddie Delve Suite into a party palace. On this occasion we decided to use just half the venue which worked very well.
Giving the Freddie Delve a real Christmas and cosy feeling. The musical aspect of the night, was controlled by our new regular DJ Nicky, who played a nice mixture of music in order to cater for all types. He created an amazing disco atmosphere, getting the majority of our attendees onto the dance floor.
As always, we provided a large range of melt in the mouth desserts. All attendees were able to part take in a wide selection of drinks from sparkling wine, bottled beers and ciders to soft drinks and some lucky early birds even got a glass of Caribbean punch, which definitely went down exceedingly well and helped to get attendees into the party spirit.
The raffle is always an exciting part of the evening as most of the attendees are anxious to be one of the winners. Again, we had a good selection of prizes ranging from a spa day including treatments and bubbly to a three course meal for two with champagne and two other experiences… all the way to a bottle of champagne and a luxury box of chocolates. We can safely say everybody that attended had a great time and left with a smile on their face, full of the food and drink not to mention Christmas.
I would like to say a big thank you to the following people for giving up their time in order to make the Christmas party a great event and success once again, as their help was very much appreciated and went a long way in ensuring the party from the planning, execution and clear up were completed within the timeframe. Main Lottery Type of draw: Main Lottery Drawn on: C Connolly, M Hatfield. These are the results of Draw Number: We will also be holding our AGM that day so you can hear about what the club gets up to and how the sailing section plans to move forward over the next few months and years.
You do not need any experience or qualifications but the will to give it a go. The Sea Cadets training centre at the Welsh Harp provides all the safety equipment and boats for us to get out on the water. So get your crews together and join us for a great 3 days sailing and socialising with competitors from all over the UK facebook. Gary and I fished the venue the week previously as this was going to be my first game national I needed the practise. The match was fished from He was just piped into second place overall by McCalister from Grampian with slightly more weight.
Peter with 3 fish was placed 9th overall I was 10th with 3 fish and Chris Williams 31st with 1fish, putting this into context Welsh and Scottish International's were placed 17 and 31 so London teams once again faired very well! Once again a big thank you to Gary for organising and running a very successful National competition and to the London contingent for representing the Section.
The Coarse Angling Section. Please contact me ASAP to reserve a peg and accommodation. As this was unknown Dick Peatfield, Bob Miles and Tony Lovell decided to test it out before the competition, they chose the first three pegs at the gate. Dick was first to catch a 21lb pike! Then Tony a PB of 10lb, Bob had four between 4 and 6lb then Tony beating his best at 15lb with more small jack pike to all the anglers before the end of the day.
A great days fishing and confidence making for a good day the next week. February the 24th, the day after a violently windy storm which brought trees down all around the venue. This did not deter the LFB pike anglers looking for a good day. Eddie Marriott, myself and Mitch Copplestone were the first three to draw and strangely enough chose the three pegs fished the Fire Sport Carp pairs match.
Stuart Lovell last year's champion caught a small pike of 2lb and Lancaster was the LFB organiser, no stranger to the magazine this although the fishing was slow everyone was enjoying the warm year Stuart competed and won medals in the swimming nationals spring day, tea and banter, Dick was next to catch a 6lb fish and well done!
This one is fished over three days with a partner in the same peg, There was speculation why the fishing was not quite as a combined weight for the pairs and largest weight for individual. Singleton, Ricky Durant's partner unfortunately had to drop out at Even so a enjoyable day with Tony taking third place, Dick second the last moment so was only fishing for the individual position. The carp were pretty slow to start feeding but Stuart and Graham Thank you to all the chaps who attended. A date for the diary this caught good fish to lead into the evening, throughout the night year's pairs pike national which is in South Yorkshire on November Stuart outclassed the other anglers by catching and releasing 8th over lb of carp, at the end of the competition Stuart had just Please contact me and reserve a peg!
A big congratulations and thank you to Stuart and the other anglers for representing and collecting more silverware for London! The National this year is to be at the same venue contact me if you would like to fish and represent London. I retired from the Brigade in I have taken charge of the finances ie. I would like to invite all of you out there with a sense of adventure whether you are on 2 or 3 wheels, female or male to join the club.
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If you are on Face Book you can see the sort of trips that we undertake. In the last few years there have been organised rides in Vietnam, Route 66 in the States and last year South Africa. Also closer to home, shorter rides to France and Germany for 3 or 4 days away. We have meetings in Essex as well as Kent and in the summer months rides before the meets. Looking forward to meeting you…. These additional savings apply to all dates, all grades of accommodation and touring and camping. Offers cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, third party discount, group bookings or voucher and must be booked direct with Haven.
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Email me at vince. Hello to all lovers of all things motorised with two wheels and You can find us on Facebook at London Fire Brigade Motorcycle maybe three. Apart from our monthly meetings, ride outs and trips in the UK Route 66 the club is very active in Europe with trips to France, Spain and Germany and the Nurburgring. We have also participated in several International rides. Current vacancies can be found at www. After eating in the hotel restaurant which was 1st Class and very We arrived in France and after an hour we visited our first reasonable priced we had a few drinks in the bar before retiring Christmas Market in Arras which was so beautiful and a lovely to our room which had the biggest bed ever and was very insight of what we could expect once we reached our destination comfortable.
We visited the cellars which were up to 14 metres below ground level and stretched for 25 kilometres under the streets of Reims. In the cellars we saw thousands of bottles of champagne and some were hundreds of years old and locked up behind steel bars as tyre experts, Door2Door and were indeed priceless. Monique told us that during the 2nd World War the Germans took Hassle free fitting at home possession of the factory and cellars but that they allowed the or work workers to continue making the Champagne.
When the Germans lost the war the walls were risk free ordering knocked down and the bottles retrieved. Largest range of tyres We all had a lovely glass of Mumm Champagne and most of us available in the UK spent time and money in the well stocked gift shop!!! Free wheel balance, valve On Sunday we had a day of leisure and were free to explore the and disposal for all LFB welfare members. Town and the wonderful Cathedral. After another leisurely breakfast we checked out at 10am to start our journey home stopping on the way to visit the Chocolate web: Would like to say a huge thank you to Julie for organizing us all and the lovely Thomas our coach driver for the weekend.
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After a few loaded the same 9 songs 5 times! So we ignored it. But for the hard mountain trek. Typical cheapskate cabby had re-moulds lip going. If you accidentally kicked work so had to pull into services to fit a spare wheel. Know-it-all down a gear you were in for a roasting from him. Jag but it was the Moosemobile that got all the attention and We made it to Lille with no further dramas. Booked in with fellow photos taken. Five men, Fred driving, Archie mountain pass onto Monaco.
We lifted bonnet, told Tony not to take the radiator cap off, Tony no listen. She cooled quickly after a top up so we headed back championships last October at the London Aquatic Centre. Paul lost his wallet and went home grumpy.
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We arrived in Loret de Mar with no issues. Beer, beach and This was the most lengths achieved by any team over the two paella. Tony got ice cream and took the wheel for the last time. After a few more raised will go to the Firefighters Charity and the rest to a range of dodgy directions from Steve we finally found the scrap yard. Soldiers, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, load ammunition into an M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank in preparation for a live fire range as part of a welcome ceremony, unit colors uncasing and live fire demonstration at Karliki range, Zagan, Poland, Jan.
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Polar Bears welcome 1st Rifles 1 Recent searches: This was the turning point as we went on to Merseyside in the English Cup. We had a strong side available and score 4 more. Wood Foster x 2 and Georgiou. Again we ran out 6 opted to play a 4 4 2 line up. We welcomed back Nick Wilson -2 winners to reach our first cup final of the season. Dagenham in goal after Charlie Hassle had broken his ankle Due to the weather we are waiting to play East Scotland in our before the season had even started. John Aldridge Whitechapel other semi-final.
A good solid performance to see Georgiou to slot home. However Merseyside started to take us win the game We were hanging scoring for us. Next was a home tie to Manchester, but they pulled on, making silly errors and not playing to our strengths. A fine out putting us into a quarter final tie. Bedfordshire again at home double save from Wilson kept us in it as the ref blew for half time. Knighty had a decent squad to pick from, however Bedfordshire played well, probably one of the better Vets sides we have come A few harsh words and some changes bought the desired result up against.
We took the lead through Mark Dagger, but and in the second half goals from Hackett, Francis and Georgiou Bedfordshire hit back. It was a tight game and then in the second see us run out 4 - 0 winners. Our next game was an away trip to half we were awarded a penalty. We changed our formation to 3 5 2 as couldn't finish them off.
Another penalty was awarded to us, but we believed we had better attack minded players. We also we missed it. Again we struggled to pull away, but eventually welcomed Adam Foster North Kensington , Luke Vernon and Dave Ellis struck late on to give us a win. This gave us a semi- Luke Partridge both Bethnal Green into the squad. We started final tie against South Yorkshire. But due to unforeseen really well.
Going one up via an own goal in 30 seconds. However circumstances this game is yet to be played. We had three more good changes before another error see us go down within a In the UK Cup we took on Herefordshire. Again a strong squad minute. Foster scored to make it 2 all.
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We then took control and proved too much as we again ran out winners. Next we took goals from Vernon and Georgiou gave us a half time lead. We on Hampshire, once again at home and yet again we were far too started the second half as we finished the first. Scoring five more good and beat them 7 This put us into another semi-final. Hampshire got one back, but we ran out winners. Next up was an away trip away to Cornwall in December in the English Cup.
We decided to fly down and back for the game To say it was slightly windy when we all met at Gatwick is a bit of an understatement. At this point our keeper Wilson informed us he wasn't the best when it came to flying. As the cabin crew prepared for take-off they decided to move some passengers around as in their words "it will be a bumpy ride into Newquay airport. After a roller coaster ride into Newquay we got to the pitch to find bright blue skies. However the next 90 minutes we saw rain, sleet, 70mph winds and snow. Again we started well going 1 up in a minute then 2 up two minutes later from Georgiou and Brendan.
But Cornwall came back into it and before long it was 2 all. Just before half time we scored again, Georgiou to take a half time lead, the two Dave's where not impressed with the ease at which we were conceding goals and that if we cut this out we would take the win.
As the two managers Welfare Fund Magazine Spring Along with the recent cycle to work scheme there has never been a better time to get involved in cycling. The Club is planning numerous activities with organised single day ride outs at various locations, Multiday trips within the UK, possible cycling holidays similar to the Ski trips dependant upon interest and supporting individuals who are taking part or maybe interested in the competitive side of the sport.
For starters If you would like to get involved in any way, shape or Mountain Bikes are my hobby and secondly Red Bull sponsors of form please send an email to duncan. Welsh trail builders are some of the fire. This was posted nearer the time. I say almost because the swooping descents and demanding technical sections on the way down were worth the leg burning lung busting climbs.
The next day we hit the much anticipated part of our trip, Bike Park Wales. La Hallotiere is in the most beautiful part of Normandy, only half an hour from Brittany. Roads with very little traffic allow easy access in under 20 minutes to zoos and theme parks, 2nd world war sites, lakes, fishing and golf. Local towns and villages proud of their bakeries and special street markets. We attempted as many of the carefully crafted trails as we could. Grins throughout the day were getting bigger and speeds were picking up significantly, to the final run where we were hitting speeds of 30mph through a succession sweeping berms.
It was a good time to call an end to the day, I know personally I was on the limits of grip and talent!
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The previous days rain had made the whole affair a mud fest. Downhill in the mud makes for an entertaining ride, uphill however, I think I lost my sense of humour for a moment. The rega a once again was full of great sailing, food and entertainment over the four days in May. Next years Sailing Challenge is booked in for the 7th —10th of May We would love to enter more boats and crew into this event so please get in touch if you would like to take part, all skill levels welcome.
If you fancy giving dinghy sailing a try please contact Roy Keightley at keightleyr62 gmail. This meant established paths through route Rosemary and Tony We all met up on the Thursday removing gloves thereby Rydal and into Grasmere and returned via Butter Crag and evening of the 15th February exposing bare hands to the finishes at the Cemetery north Alcock Tarn, which at m and sorted out the route s for elements. So this photo shot of the town. That suggests this was the path and needed careful pick and join onto.
Ben Nevis , and me who will conditions and decided to be marshalling on Snowdon. This being the safer do our own routes. Some went Mount, the last family home of off to the Langdales whilst Wiltshire lads who were option of descent off via William Wordsworth from planning to go up the 3rd Striding Edge to the east, plus Tony, Rosemary and I, did a until his death in and circular route starting from highest mountain in the Lakes, wanting to be off the mountain through the grounds of Rydal Helvelyn - m.
The day by last light at 5pm. The Rosthwaite, to Seathwaite, House. Taking the most scrabbling to get to our feet midth century, Sir Daniel direct route, saw us slipping and trying to maintain an to Coast long distance path Fleming — developed which Tony completed several and sliding on the icy mountain upright posture. The fun of it the landscape incorporating pass road just m short of all! We laughed about it later years ago. This includes 'The been gritted.
After many run sited at the foot of the sights of waterfalls cascading Grot' a summerhouse down the mountains were a up attempts and pushing, mountain, which we reached at designed for viewing a without any success, it was 5: Whilst waterfall which became a passing through Stonewaite we decided to go back down the Tony and Rosemary had major attraction for a pass road and take the long stepped inside their old church decided to undertake a lower succession of visiting artists which gave us seating and a way round.
It was an interesting ascent to the top having to negotiate icy sections along the ridge with sheer drops either side. Now was not the Following another pleasant time for anyone to find out if evening in the bar we said our they had vertigo! It is lot of entries. To my knowledge also expected Members will be we already have 10 teams invited to attend the guided competing: And I have As always we are very keen to received enquiries from get new members joining the Finchley, Acton, Stratford and Section and taking part in the the Athletics Section. If you Challenge events, so if you are have entered a team please let interested in receiving details me know as soon as possible.
Quite ironic really planning to run a similar event that only a couple of weeks on 9th September in Kent. Regretably no - Benenden, Biddenden, Tenterden, Rolvenden. Between the years and , freemen and was our traditional and positions remain vacant. If you swineherds would return to the same clearing in the forest. This popular Christmas Walk that are interested in taking up resulted in the dens becoming named after the family or took place on 30th December, those positions please get in household who used them. Benenden for example belonged to with the event attracting 22 touch to discuss.
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