June 2006
the
next generation !!!
June 2006
the
next generation !!!
Members present
Andy & Jennie Holyoak
- TR6
Martin & Sue Faulkner
- TR6 and TVR
Tony & Ruth Richards
- TR6
Kathryn & Tim Sharp -
TR6
Colin & Ann Skinner -
TR6
John & Margaret
Martin
Reg & Irene Bowler -
TR6
Andy & Claire Moltu -
TR6
John & Chris Day -
TR6
Martin & Jenny Ward - TR6 (I’m getting
fed up of typing TR6 now!!!)
Ben Ward - TR6 (another one!)
Paul Bowler - SM (? his Maserati ?)
Roger Guy - TR6
John Soffe - TR3A (yippee!)
David Guzetta - TR5
Andrew & Corinne
Burford - Herald
Phil Gunn - TR7
Steve Lambley - TR (model not given) PI
Note
from the scribes
We would
like to apologise for the lateness of the last few, including this one,
TRipes. As most of you know, Jennie’s
son, Chris, and his wife, Yo, and their baby, Isabella, have been staying with
us. That in itself wasn’t a problem but
access to the computer, which is kept in the guest bedroom, was. They’ve now moved out so we will be able to
do July’s early. However, be warned, son
number 1, Tom, and his wife, Aew, are coming back to the UK to live on the 27th
July and will stay in the guest room for a few weeks while they get themselves
sorted out. However, as they don’t have a baby, it shouldn’t be so much of a
problem. Fingers crossed anyway!
Meeting notes
Have to say
that this will probably be the shortest TRipe we’ve done. I have a scant page of notes with some items
having been covered already in May’s TRipe.
However, please enjoy what there is - and send us some articles yourselves PLEASE.
Get
Well Soon
Sadly,
Martin Ward broke his tendon moving his caravan (he says) so is in plaster up
to his neck for several weeks. Jenny was
“on his case” but I think she’s fighting a losing battle there but keep on at
him Jen! Anyway, he was celebrating his
“passenger” status by drinking a very nice pint of beer - making the rest of us
drivers green with envy.
Tour
of
As you saw
on the front of last month’s TRipe, the tour of
Other
trips
Laon - Tim & Kathryn had a fabulous
time and sent us a wonderful report which was included in May’s TRipe.
Derbyshire weekend - this was an absolutely excellent
weekend but I won’t steal anyone’s thunder by reporting properly on it
here. Hopefully, someone will have
written a report for the July TRipe and will send me lots of photos, and I do
have a few of my own.
Summer
car events
Now we’re
back into the good weather - if the British summer behaves itself that is
(although, fingers crossed, it’s certainly doing so at the moment) - there are
some monthly car events to go to.
Firstly,
there’s the monthly Ashby Folville. This
is always on the second Tuesday of the month.
If you get a chance to go, then take our advice - get there as early as
you possibly can whatever the weather.
Andy and
Jennie went this month. As the weather
was gorgeous it seemed everyone and his wife also went. This meant they had to abandon their TR6,
along with Andrew Deacon’s (whose daughter,
The oldest
cars always park at the back of the pub but I did notice they were down in
number this year compared to last.
The bikes -
of which there seem to be hundreds - were all over the sides of the road, in
front of the pub, and up the side road next to the pub.
It was
somewhat of a challenge if you wanted to use the loos up at the pub. You either had to fight your way through the
throng at the bar or fight through the throng round the side of the pub looking
at the cars and bikes. Then you had to
stand in a long queue; even the men were queuing at one time. There were some loos on the field which
weren’t so nice and you still had to queue.
We have managed to crack not having a drink by taking our own along but
we’ve not yet come up with a cure for needing the facilities. All ideas considered!
The other
venue is the Dog & Gun at Kilby.
That was last night, Wednesday 12th July and I know that
Andrew and Corinne Burford went in their American delight because I followed
them there on my way home from work J
Andy also popped along for a look-see while I did some gardening. I expect someone will know if this is a
one-off or if it’s a monthly thing - watch this space in July’s TRipe (which we
promise to get out early).
New
venue for meeting
Although
the pub in Tilton is fine, the meals often aren’t really up to scratch and the
car park is really rough. So we’re
looking for another venue. No rush -
we’re OK where we are for now - but a couple of other pubs were put up for
consideration:
Dog & Gun, Kilby - this pub doesn’t have a separate
room but they don’t serve meals on a Monday so we could use their restaurant
and they could serve bar snack type meals for us. This would mean, of course, that we’d have to
change our meeting night. This went down
like a lead balloon as everyone is very happy with the third Thursday of every
month. Besides, Phil is learning to swim
on a Monday!
Black Horse, Houghton-on-the-Hill - this pub has an excellent car
park, good food and a separate room. It
was agreed that as many of us as could, and who wanted to, would pop along on
Thursday 22nd June at 8.30pm to try it out ready to report at July’s
meeting.
Cooks
Tour (?!)
Actually,
this isn’t what it sounds - it’s the tour round Cooks of Wigston’s wonderful
car museum at Saddington. Martin Ward
was offered 18-20th July but as they were in the same week as the
International and just after Classic Le Mans, it was decided they weren’t very
good for us. He was going to get some
more to discuss at the July meeting.
Morgan
trip
Andy has
managed to secure a trip round the Morgan factory. He’s been badgering them for around 6 years
now - ever since our first year at Malvern for the International - and has been
fobbed off for one reason or another.
Anyway, they’ve now relented. The
trip takes place on Friday 21st July, starting at 10.30am
sharp. It takes around 2½ hours. The cost is £75 for the whole tour so the
individual cost will be that figure divided by the number of people on the tour
(with a maximum of 30). The factory
closes at 1.30pm on a Friday and this is non-negotiable as it’s been that way
for years. Please do let us
know if you’d like to go - it’s on a first-come-first-served basis
but the places aren’t going anywhere nearly as fast as we thought they would,
probably because of the ridiculously early start we’ll all have to make in
order to get to Morgan for 10.30.
International
Well now,
where on earth do I start. As ever, there was much discussion and
hilarity and comment flying all over the place.
However, I do recall - and I’m sure I was right, or was that lemonade of
mine seriously spiked ? - that
Paul said he was taking a sheep down there with him in his passenger seat, duly
safety-belted in.
Very interesting. I didn’t realise he had Welsh
blood in him.
He did try
to backtrack a little and insist it was for our dinner on the Saturday night -
but you know what they say about stopping digging
…
BBQ
at Chez Skinner
We’ve all
been invited to Colin and Ann Skinner’s for a 2-course BBQ on Saturday 6th
August. They will provide all the food
so there will be a small charge of £6 per person - which is required
up-front. A count-up at the meeting
suggested that around 15 people intended to go.
They said they can house a maximum of 40 people so there’s plenty of
room for others who didn’t put their hands up at June’s meeting. Colin and Ann live in a small village called
Badby near Wellingborough so it will be a good run out as well. Please let them know if you’re interested, skinner.badby@btinternet.com
Future
events
Lakes - Has anyone taken this over yet? Is anyone interested in it? If we don’t hear anything by the time we send
out the July TRipe, we’ll take it out . Friday 8th to Sunday 10th
September. Change of arrangements unfortunately,
Jennie & Andy are NOT now going on this weekend because of family
commitments. So would one of those of
you who’d said you’d like to go please take over the organisation. Nothing has been booked so far. If you’re interested in going on this
weekend, please email Jennie & Andy who will then pass your details on to
whoever agrees to take over the organisation.
Goodwood Revival Weekend - 1st - 3rd
September,. Graham
Ransome organising. Please email
him if you want accommodation, please email Grahm
Ransome. Tim Sharpe also has some
details on this weekend.
European Meeting in
Rachael’s next theatrical
production - 19th
- 22nd October, Rachael appearing in Joseph & His Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat
While
I was tidying up!...
Part five
Are you
ready for this? I have in my hot little
hands Issue Number 1 of TR Action, dated 1st March 1970. It records the formation of the TR Register
on 11th January 1970.
And I
quote:
“Where did
the TRs come from?
From Morgan, Jaguar and MG actually
.. ! Triumph had, for some time,
coveted the Morgan Plus 4 design and the Jag and MG
sports car sales to
And in the
year 2006, we are still modifying and increasing bhp to our own personal
standards. And long may it continue!
Andy
Club
teeshirts
Lots of
people gave Paul their orders for teeshirts and hats so that he had a fighting
chance to get them for us to wear at the International. If he’s not given them to Baaarbara and her
mates, that is!
The
embroidered logo is on the left breast and on the right sleeve on the man’s
shirt, the man’s teeshirt , and the ladies’
blouse. The logo is on the sleeve only
on the ladies’ teeshirt. It’s on the
front of the cap.
The costs
are as follows, including £1 towards club funds for each item:
man’s shirt 21.00
ladies’ blouse 20.00
man’s teeshirt 13.00
ladies’ teeshirt 11.00
cap 7.00
Calendar
|
20th
July |
LTRG
meeting |
|
21st-23rd
Jul |
International
in Malvern |
|
2nd
Aug |
RAID -
Camb Followers, Barnack |
|
8th
Aug |
Ashby
Folville |
|
17th
Aug |
LTRG
meeting |
|
23rd
Aug |
RAID -
Cotswolds Vale |
|
1st
- 3rd Sep |
Goodwood
Revival |
|
8th
- 10th Sep |
Lakes
Weekend |
|
13th-19th
Sep |
European
Trip to |
|
21st
Sep |
LTRG meeting |
PART 59 - Heather
I’VE SOME GOOD EXCUSES
for
not having written for a while. Lots to tell you about but not enough time to sit and put pen to
paper (or fingers to keyboard).
Some
friends of a neighbour expressed an interest in our house and came to look
around before we’d spoken to an estate agent, or I’d had time to tidy up. To cut a long story short, two agents valued
the house, we increased it a bit and told the interested people, they
negotiated down to the value advised by the agent and we shook hands on
it. Great. Then the bad news: we had to be out by the end of June so the
search began for rental accommodation.
There aren’t many landlords willing to let for just 4 months but, after
two let-downs, we found a small first-floor apartment just a couple of miles
away.
We
invited our buyers round for dinner one Tuesday evening to celebrate and during
the meal received a telephone call informing us that Catherine, Peter’s
sister-in-law, had been diagnosed with liver cancer. Peter flew out to support his brother on
Thursday while I stayed at home and entertained Fabienne, the Belgian manager
of Peter’s Parisian plant. (Are you
confused yet?)
Peter
returned to the
So those
are my reasons for not having written in April and May.
June was
chaotic to say the least. We had planned
to go on an Alaskan cruise but cancelled it when we realised how crazy life was
getting. The second weekend of the month
we had a “tag sale”. This is like a car
boot sale but you do it on your own driveway.
We had several large ticket items to get rid of including a sectional
sofa, a Mosquito Magnet and snowblower.
As the weekend was drawing to an end and we still had the first two of
these items sat on the drive, I went indoors to advertise them in the local
newspaper and on Ebay. When I came back
outside Peter was counting the money he’d just taken for them! Back inside to cancel the adverts and
auctions.
The third
weekend of the month we had the immediate neighbours come round for a dinner
party. The weather was warm and during
the afternoon it stopped raining so we carried our dining room furniture
outside to the gazebo and had a lovely evening with lots of fun
reminiscing. I don’t think we could ever
be lucky enough to have neighbours like this again.
The
fourth weekend we had a huge barbecue and invited friends, work colleagues and
all the neighbours. It was a busy day;
the first guests arrived at 1:20 p.m. and the last left at about 10:30 p.m. Our friendly butcher did a wonderful job with
the burger, sausage and wing supplies.
Wrapped leftovers were taken the next day to the local soup kitchen.
The
Thursday after this huge party we moved out and into our “cosy” apartment. Cosy? It’s nearly 6 p.m. and the temperature’s 81°F
with humidity at 60%. Perhaps I should
have said sweaty. And I’ve just done the
ironing. I must be mad.
We’ve
booked flights to come to the
Until
then, take care,
Heather
P.S. From Peter
For the
same reasons as outlined above absolutely nothing has been done to the car in
the last few weeks. Luckily the people
to whom we sold the house offered to let us leave the car there and come to
work on it as we wished. The plan is to get it into a moveable state without
inconveniencing them unduly. Sounds like weekend work to me.