A favourite place to meet our friends and fellow Motor Caravanners from South Wales. Here is our Chairman’s report on a fabulous weekend from Thursday 12th December onwards.
We arrived at Briarfields Site at about 5pm on Thursday evening to be greeted by the stewards, Anne and John. Also Bill and Linda from East Mids Area, who had arrived just before us. They had left home at 12 noon and travelled via the scenic route.
Anyway, I was setting up our van like a complete novice. I had put the water in the van before we left home, so we plugged into mains electric on site straight away. Put the fire on electricity and also the water heater. Doreen wanted me to put the gas on for a cuppa. No gas coming through! So I checked the regulator that had been turned off. Still no gas! Checked the manifold and found that all the appliances were off! So I turned them on. Doreen went to fill the kettle, and there was no water coming out of the tap! I had not bled the system! While I was doing all this there was also steam coming out of the water heater… luckily I got away with that, as thankfully the water heater still works! Anyway, that’s enough about me: we got sorted out!
Friday morning at about 11am Lynne and Colin arrived and we decided to go into Cheltenham on the bus and have lunch before doing the shopping.
©️ Colin Lang
When we were walking around we saw Anne and Johnwho told us they were meeting up with others from the old Wales area about 3.30pm in Weatherspoon’s and so we all joined them in there before going out into the dark to see all the Christmas lights.
Saturday nearly everyone went on the Bus to Gloucester.
We did not go until about lunch time but when we arrived we met Diane and Barry who told us they had been to the Cathedral with Marg and Ken. There was a Carol service being held and it was very nice.
Sunday 11am was the Coffee Morning in the laundry room. I thanked the Stewards for their hard work and also everyone for coming and gave out the 2020 meet sheet. Colin spoke to someone who had not been out with us before which was good. I also had a word with them; thanking them for their support and said it would be nice to see them out again with us.
Bye for now Martin
