Report 1467

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Report 1467

Run	1467
Date	25-May
Hare	Icepyck/Elle T-shirt
Venue	Gomshall BR station
On On	BBQ at Gilbert's
SSA	New:116E8 Old:103F3
OS	TQ 089479 (186)

BBQ

Never quite know what to call stations in these post-private-ised days "Gomshal, above ground, Connex South-West and All stations between Redhill and Alton" seems a bit long in comparison to "BR". Anyway despite this preponderance of pondering (am I having an alliteral day? - I expect we'll find out).

Most seemed to have found Gomshall BR station, despite the attempts of "The company who pick-up (well sometimes) paper artifacts from red slotted containers and pass them round for a bit before putting them through your door" or the PO as it may still be called (again). A word on that: The OnSex and their able assistants (and copiers, folders and mailers), Hobnail & Last, had produced and first class posted first the yellows by Tuesday mid-day last week. It seems that one week in four some PO operative decides he doesn't like yellow and sends the whole shebang to Burton under Throttlenaze by special courier and puts them in the little red elephant next to Mrs Trellis, which never gets emptied before Monday the following week - complain - I haven't got time.

The main event of the day - parking - kicked off well with Chunderos introducing the second layer quickly followed by the " Body-Shop-Beamer" and "G & T truck" conflict - with B-S-B doing the manly thing (i.e. he CAN reverse, and, being a BM, very fast), a double high speed shuffle leaving G&T scant room to exit the truck!

Today being an announced BBQ day, the woodwork presents some surprises, Eric, a JM and THE GM!

The run: A perfectly reasonable back check and Then… the Hare loses a few more Marbles with unimaginative checks and SAGA - Surrey Attachment Guildford Are……s. (I don't usually beep things out but I don't want to upset `em - MUCH) get up to their normal tricks and soon we are spread from Armpit to breakfast time.

A few Checking On-Ons THEN God love `em the SAGA's lose pole and get mixed up with the Hoi-Poloi, Is it really an A to B says Dissa? I've been spending the last 40 minutes looking for the turn around! - Well as it turned out the B part wasn't that far from the A, just making sure that most of the cars stayed in the station car park and didn't swamp the Icey neihbours.We knew where we were going - up there! but how? At the first summit it still wasn't clear if it was a left or right! Then it was - right but how far? Westcott? No! Beech Avenue - near the pill box on the steep bit down the East side of the road for a bit, then the road for a bit then right down the track past the memorial to Wilburforce's son's equestrian demise. At this point only the one railway and A25 to cross, and the road crossing was just by the back entrance to the water cress beds. Dormouse still hasn't got the hang of what checks are for - keeping the pack together - and spent 8 microseconds considering what would have been a nice turn round "I know it can't be that way so I'm off this way", and sadly it was. There was still a bit of a ridge to master. Then - the mother of all back checks, a gentle up hill with an early view of a footpath sign-post high and right - thankfully missed by the FFRBs, a goodly distance to the check and the solution a diagonal back and across to the aforementioned post, allowing the back markers, sadly now jibber amongst that number, to stream across and the last shall be first and they were - even Mrs G getting to a check first!

And then just past the "On-In" down a well eroded ancient track the back entrance to chez Gilbert, some missed it and were never seen again, but the vigilant swa the bloody great arrow and a welcoming SH3 sign on the back gate 200 yards across a hay field.

This is all too difficult on gotomypc from welsh Wales so sorru Aufur I did take notes (not) I'mm off up a mountain and then the pub.

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