Frisco

Enjoying our corner under the tree

BBQ time on the Saturday when everyone is drawn together and taking is always fantastic to see. Great turnout and a great show again. Tony; your snoring is something else

Added John, looking forward to seeing you

Most know the deal by now but in case anyone doesn't; once you've signed up here you need to buy your show and camping tickets from the VBOA via the link below. https://vboa.org.uk/index.php/product/vboa-members-26/ As always attendance is members only so to get the password for tickets PM myself or retrotony87. Last year was a great show so hopefully we get the weather again.

I've sent it to you. Any other club members looking for the code message me or retrotony87

https://vboa.org.uk/index.php/product/vboa-members-26/

No , that is the clarification from them

I got clarification on the Friday day tickets question. They are calling the show over at 6:30pm so if you turn up on Friday between 6:30pm and 9pm when the gates close you don't need a day ticket for Friday, your camping ticket will get you in.

It's a new site just down the road from Sywell

They have now updated the venue and camping is back on https://vboa.org.uk/index.php/2025/01/28/vboa-national-rally-2025-date-released-2/

I can't understand how they ever thought it would be a good idea to go without camping. I believe they left MH because LMF were making money rather than them.

I'd say overall the show was great, a huge improvement on the previous years. There'll always be room for improvement but we enjoyed the weekend. Shower and toilet facilities were better although still not perfect; some showers were randomly cold regardless of when you went. Lighting again were better but still not perfect; there was very little down our end. Whatever they did to bring new traders to the autojumble worked great, best it has been in years by a long way. Their biggest issue with the whole thing is pricing. It's expensive to go, it's expensive to camp and the food vendors were expensive. That's our general thoughts.

Yeah we're having a BBQ on Saturday evening this year charged at £10 per adult and £5 per child We'll go out on Saturday to get supplies for it but donations are absolutely welcome.

Clara and myself, The Green Cav, Fri/Sat/Sun, Small dome tent plus a small trailer. We have another one of the large shelters now John. I don't know if we'll use both the new and old one but we may so more space than last year would be good UPDATED

Looking ahead to this. I have the BBQ and gas sorted which is plenty big enough to cater for everyone so I will be bringing that with me. Tony is working on the stickers now with the aim to have both general mk2cav member window stickers and show attendance stickers available. We will have a proper shelter in case the rain returns or we just need a sun shade (fingers crossed). We'll have this in the next few weeks. Andy is finishing up a club rebrand including a new logo that will be incorporated into merch and banners. So we'll have hoodies, t-shirts etc available before the show. For the BBQ there will need to be a charge. Thinking £10 per adult and £5 per child? This should give us enough scope to put on a good spread (burgers, sausages, baked spuds, corn, some salad etc) Thoughts and input welcome folks. I don't think I've missed any of the major stuff we've been missing over the past few years.