[F] AFPeak Meet report (err, possibly rather long!)
Selina T. Lock
Well seeing as how no-one else has done one yet here's my tuppence worth.....
After battling up the M1 on friday afternoon & taking a minor detour via
Chatsworth house [1] I finally arrived at the Fieldhead Campsite, Edale
at about 5:40pm. No sooner had I stepped out of the car but what did I
see, I saw a Suzi [2] & upon following her around the corner I saw Gid &
the palace they had erected before my arrival. With much swearing &
begetting of blisters I managed to get my tent into a state that could be
called erected & sat down to a nice cuppa kindly supplied by Suzi.
2 hours later we were bemoaning the fact that no-one else had yet arrived
& Gid was hearing the call of the pub strongly. Upon debate it was
decided to put AFP in gaffa tape on Gid'n'Suzis tent so everyone else
knew where we'd pitched. this task done we were just about to depart when
Mike arrived & so we stayed to laugh at him putting up his tent, it was
fairly amusing. others then arrived & we all departed to the pub in dribs
& drabs to partake of food & quite possibly a little bit of drink as well.
The final group at the pub & meet consisted of me, Gid, Suzi, Mike, Maurice,
Lottie, Barry R, & Janice until a bit later when we were also joined by
Will & Kath whom none of us had met before but seemed to join in merrily.
Janice astounded us by producing some very euurrgghhh! worthy cc'd objects
in the shape of chocolate covered locusts which were devoured by most,
even I tried them after a bit of peer pressure & they just tasted of
chocolate if a bit crunchy! I have no idea what subjects were covered in
the conversations as they were many & varied & I'd had a couple of
bottles of cider!
After the pub we meandered our way back to the campsite & proceeded to
sit around a couple of lamps eating much chocolate & drinking some rather
nice alcohol provided by Mike.......I never thought I'd like the taste of
melon gin but it's actually rather nice. Maurice produced Kinder eggs for
us all, great fun & I completely failed to put my kinder toy together!
Afp once again astounded us by what it could manage to geek about...this
time it was torches & tent pegs! I mean......
We finally collapsed in tents at about 1:30am ish after upsetting other
campers with our noise...oooopps.
Oh & somewhere along the line that evening I became Suzi & Lotties
identical triplet...yipppeee :-)
Saturday
********
After we all finally arose the group split in two, seven of them to go up
Kinder Scout [3] & three of us to go do touristy things. Gid, Suzi & I
proceeded to Speedwell cavern[4] just in time to get in line behind about 30
school kids...great timing! Going down Speedwell was an interesting
experience but would probably have been better if we could hear what the
guide was saying as he was drowned out by a rather frightened two
year-old. Obviously it's impossible to get away from Discworld references
because we wandered into the gift shop to see some of Isobel & Bernards
wonderful candles on sale.
We also visited Treak Cliff Caverns [5] which I found more interesting as
it had those lovely spikey things [6] hanging from the ceiling & among other
things a rock called happy that was supposed to bring you good luck if
you patted it! I also discovered that caves seem to be another natural
environment of Gids [7] & he seemed to want to live in one.
Somewhere along the lines we also went into Castleton & visited a few
pubs....what a surprise! got back to the campsite to find the others
already back & some of them preparing to go swimming in an outdoor heated
pool [8] while the rest of us went....guess where?.....yep that's right,
to the pub!
We all met up again later in a pub to consume large amounts of food,
talk, drink, geek about teles, suggest what would make a better national
anthem than God save the Queen, tune in the pub tele above our heads for
everyone else to watch football, Mike & I to complain that everyone else
was talking about or watching the football!, realise it's quite
disconcerting to have a room full of people starring at the corner above
your heads, get extremely hot & head outside, get extremely cold & head
to another pub. After the pubs we all admitted to being shattered & sloped
off to bed early.
Sunday
******
We all dragged ourselves up & pottered around for a while before deciding
that taking the tents down maybe a good idea, especially before those
nasty clouds got overhead. Sat around deciding what to do & waiting for
Mike to emerge from his tent! Set off in convey to go to peak
cavern leaving Mike packing up his tent, lose Gid'n'Suzi en route & later find
out they decided to go to Blue John mine instead & then changed their minds
when they saw the amount of steps. So Will, Kath, Maurice, Lottie, Barry,
Janice & myself descended on Peak cavern which is a natural cavern. I
once again found myself bent double trying to get through low
passages.....this had been a theme of the day befores visits too!
Later we all met up for a rather nice lunch at the George in Castleton
before heading off our seperate ways home.
Overall a really great weekend, many thanks to Maurice for organising it
& hope to see lots more people for one next year *grin*
luv & jellybabies
Selina
[1]Yes, I took a wrong turn
[2]Well not a Suzi, but The Suzi
[3]Mad people
[4]A flooded old lead mine
[5]A Blue John stone mine
[6]Stalatites..mites? I can never remember.
[7]As oppossed to his more well known environment of the pub.
[8]I told you they were mad people
Suzi
>
<snyped until could snyp no more...>
>
> [6]Stalatites..mites? I can never remember.
Tites... Tites hang downwards like the legs on Tights...
> Overall a really great weekend, many thanks to Maurice for organising it
> & hope to see lots more people for one next year *grin*
Yes - a lovely weekend... many thanks to Maurice for organadising said
event.
Only quote I can remember off-hand was Lottie upon arrival at the
campsite: "OK - who brought the hotel" (or something very similar)...
other quotes were taken by Barry R during the course of the weekend - so
we await the official quotes with baited breath. Barry - over to
you.....
Suzi
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Supermouse
StalaCtites Cling titely to the ceiling.
StalaGmites Grow mitely from the floor.
It's crap, I know, but it works for me as a mnemonic.
Helpfully,
--
Supermouse
Living from hand to Mouse.
Barry R
<snip>
>What a surprise! got back to the campsite to find the others
>already back & some of them preparing to go swimming in an outdoor
>heated pool [8]
>[8]I told you they were mad people
>Selina
I am not mad, I'm only insane!!!!!
Barry R. B.F. The Official Sad Bastard (Y&UGZY)
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Carol
>
> In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.980707120624.4157H-100000@liba>, Selina T.
> Lock <lb...@liba.lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> StalaGmites Grow mitely from the floor.
>
> It's crap, I know, but it works for me as a mnemonic.
The one I was told was that tits droop downwards, and mitts reach up to
grab them.
Carol
Ailbhe Leamy
Carol <ca...@megabitch.tm> wrote in article <35A3BD...@megabitch.tm>...
> Supermouse wrote:
> >
> > In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.980707120624.4157H-100000@liba>, Selina T.
> > Lock <lb...@liba.lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >[6]Stalatites..mites? I can never remember.
> >
> > StalaCtites Cling titely to the ceiling.
> > StalaGmites Grow mitely from the floor.
> >
> > It's crap, I know, but it works for me as a mnemonic.
>
> The one I was told was that tits droop downwards, and mitts reach up to
> grab them.
stalactites cling itghtly, and stalacmites might grow to reach them.
ailbhe
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jes...@innotts.co.uk
<35A3BD...@megabitch.tm>:
>Supermouse wrote:
>>
>> In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.980707120624.4157H-100000@liba>, Selina T.
>> Lock <lb...@liba.lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
>> >[6]Stalatites..mites? I can never remember.
>>
>> StalaCtites Cling titely to the ceiling.
>> StalaGmites Grow mitely from the floor.
>>
>> It's crap, I know, but it works for me as a mnemonic.
>
>The one I was told was that tits droop downwards, and mitts reach up to
>grab them.
LOL
Well, that's one I hadn't heard before. Presumably you weren't taught
that one at school.
I always work from the middle letters:
stalaCtites - Ceiling
stalaGmites - Ground (or possibly very small insecty things in a
german prison camp 8-)
Andy Brown
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