FNRttC - could it be a club?

[GrumpyGregry]

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Well, it wouldn't matter either way since we are all dutifully 3rd partied up through the CTC as well now

However that wasn't my motivation for joining - I joined primarily as a way of indirectly supporting the FNRttC and wouldn't have joined were it not for the FNRttC. If the FNRttC forms a club or whatever, in order to ensure that it can keep running and that Dellzeqq (supported by the TECs and so on) can keep running them without exposing himself to an unacceptable risk of in-sewer-ants rubbishness then I'd probably join that too, even if I'm not very likely to come along. Some ventures deserve support, and HPC is a bit far to bring you all a cake on a Friday night.
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When I first joined the CTC in the mid 90's the insurance was top of my agenda. As from next year the LCC will get my beer tokens for the same. Why? Well let's not go there. Now if FNRttC was a club and arranged said insurance....

I agree wholeheartedly with your "I'd probably support FNRttC even if I never rode one again" pov btw.

 

[Speicher]

What food colouring has been used on those? Pinar Yellow?

 

[Flying Dodo]

Which is it you need? Cake or beer?

Cake and beer works for me.

 

[frank9755]

But not, for preference, at the same time.

Some people are so fussy!

 

[gbs]

Simon re Leader Liabilty: I spoke to my barrister friend today and he is quite clear that dear leader has no liability towards group riders; you are suggesting a route not guaranteeing its safety; you are not responsible for the competence of riders nor their solvency if they are held liable for damages. He made the interesting point that the courts have always assumed that people participate in sport at their own risk and traditionally the courts have not encouraged injured parties to come to court. This is not so in other areas of the law.

 

[Aperitif]

M'lud - one cannot possibly be a club if significant events are allowed to fall by the wayside. I refer my learned friends to the birthday of one Greg Collins - sometime of this parish - who arrived, unaided yet unfeted, at the station of his 50th birthday yesterday.
Happy Birthday Greg - sorry I was unable to post it yesterday. Good Health to you and

 

[dellzeqq]

yes, gratters on reaching the age of insensibility. You are now cleared to enjoy your teenage years all over again.

Hold in mind the phrase that has seen me through the last six and a half years. 'I'm 50. What are they going to do, tell me off?'

 

[dellzeqq]

you'll have to ask RichP about that!

 

[Tigerbiten]

And what when you reach 60?

A good poem about growing old ..........

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.


You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.


But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.


But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple

Luck ........

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Thanks one and all.

Twas a splendid b'day weekend. Started at 13:30 on Friday when 'working from home' was superceded by working in my local with my boss which in turn, was superceded by talking drunken nonsense in said pub with my boss and our CEO. Followed by a curry.

Saturday was spent wandering around the 'sham in the company of the Lovely Helen, watching the saffers come second, and drinking some rather good kiwi wine. Followed by a curry.

Sunday - the big day - a delightful breakfast in a local brassierie, a spot of bombing down the woods on the mtb, getting very muddy and laughing a lot in the process, being told by bunnylake and samwise what a wonderful father they consider I am, being told by my father (90 next month!) that I've turned out better than he originally expected, a little more wine drinking. Followed by a curry.

I like being 50, the food is much better.

 

[Aperitif]

Nice poem Nigel - Jenny Joseph

I like being 50, the food is much better

You're not on the liquidised menu already are you, Greg? To me, you have looked 'mature' for the couple of years that I have had the pleasure of your company... (But not now you are wearing the Shutt kid's stuff )

 

[Aperitif]

It can be a Birthday Club!

Happy Birthday AdrianC! Dryer than Oloroso and full of flavoursome comment. Good health on this day.

 

[Flying Dodo]

It's definitely the birthday club, not a FNRttC club (although that's even more letters you'd have to try and stick on a jersey).

Happy birthday Adrian. Hopefully the only ice you'll encounter today will be in a glass.

 

[Aperitif]

Blimey! I saw the headline and thought fame had come-a-knocking...

BTW has Rich applied for member's hip yet?

 

[dellzeqq]

webblogthingy updated a bit. Still waiting on LCC. I've used that wonderful photo by Tim D for 'The Fridays'