Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

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Cheers Willow!!!

Carriages have left Shepperton!!!

Missus

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Thank you to all visitors for making the trip to the 'shebeen at the end of the world' as one esteemed visitor called it. It was lovely to see all of you . We're all better boating friends once again...Thank you Boatmad Boss for socialising with Ribnobbers for the evening!!!Thank you RIBNET Boss for coming along especially as they all straightened up and stopped slurring while you were there. It was lovely to see all of you; thanks for all the help!!!and for being so sociable... and in case you missed Vanessa's 2 stroke impression here it is neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Enjoyed the boating too...had a lovely time today on Black Jack escorted by Top Banana. Portsmouth-Cowes-Soton. We'll dig out some pics soon. Hope you all enjoyed yourselves ... hope to see you again soon,

Paul & Kathleen xxxxxxxxxx


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Hi everyone I am back at work at last after spending the weekend in Fareham, it was pleasure meeting you all again those I have meet earlier and nice seeing new faces behind their names on this fantastic forum which defenately makes the world smaller and brings people together around this interest. Kathleen and Paul thank you for your generous hospitality during the stay and Paul and Steve you where great chefs at the BBQ maybe I should hire you two to do spring BBQ over here soon !!! It´s nice to meet both bosses again JF and JK both of you are doing great jobs in keeping us together wherever we are located around the world. Richard and Louise many many thanks for picking me up at Heathrow and getting me safe and sound back especially after the ride back to Soton I barely could move myself out of the aircraft although flying on business class with plenty of legspace and wide seat. I definately needs to start exercising to be satisfactory fit again. Ian and Deborah congratulation with Black Jack it was great ride from Soton to Portsmouth and I wish you all the best for your endevour. Suzuki Pete nice meeting you and I will find some extreme modified Vitara´s over here just to show you how to do things professionally not like yours "sledge 4x4" with only 29" tires which is only a mini tires. Wavehumper you are definately married to Dane "Scandinavian" with good humour. Again my sincere thanks to "my other mum and dad" for taking good care of me over the weekend and sorry "mum" I completely forgot to congratulate you on Mothers day, but as we say over here better is late than never so HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
Bogi

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Thank you Bogi. You're a grand man altogether.

Well everthing went great. Apart from Mrs. Nobber drinking the Toilet Duck again and ogling my husband (norty pirate ribsta!!!)
we had a great time & hope everyone else did too...If you have some downtime please take a look here.

http://www.rib.net/forum/showthread....0&pagenumber=7

BTW three cheers for the Fullers who were the only performance boating enthusiasts with enough courage to face the ribstas!!!!!
(Mind you they brought their savage guard dog in case of trouble...!!!)

Missus

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Forgot...4 guests qualified as hardboaters...as well as Boss & Mrs. there was gypsy & a well-known narrowboater ( whom I recently clocked on the Thames doing 60 knots rushing home for his tea...)

All of which prompted me to do an analysis of the weekend events...

Guests at Paddy’s Day BBQ 35
Houseguests 11
Attempts to wear Green 90%
Ribstas 19
Hboats 4 (including narrow performance boats)
Adoptees 3
Nobbers 25%
Flame – Haired Celtish lookin types 3
Bottle Blondes 4
People who actually went out in the worst conditions ever…13 (oooops )
Mashed props 1
Children 5
Kids at heart 35
Peeps who didn’t give a damn about boats 12
Innocent toys ascribed with dodgy purposes 3 (including the kangaroo that made Gypsy amorous)
Longest distance ever travelled for a BBQ (Bulgaria / Bogib)
Winner of the 'morning person' award Suzuki Pete


If I think of any more I'll do a complete report

Missus