... gushing from the Towers

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... gushing from the Towers

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Morning, you'll be glad to know it's overcast here and about 10 degrees cooler than the same time yesterday :wink:

Firstly, I'd like to say thank you for the thanks. It's a surprising amount of work but knowing that people have enjoyed themselves makes it worthwhile.

I'd like to thank Taylor for the weigh-in and services to swearing at folk. Matt for running the sweepstake and bara-brick ... all, now WRT tradition. I'd like to thank Si for helping out with parking duties, a largely thankless task but a very important one.

Next, a very big thank you to all those companies that donated raffle prizes. I think we had a very good haul this year, so please think about supporting those companies the next time you dip your hand in your purse ... you'll find details on your T shirt. Someone you won't find on your T shirt is Stooge but a very last minute donation of a frameset from Andy and a generous bid from Simon means the amount raised for the Air Ambulance this year is around £4200 I'll let you know the exact amount once I do.

Dee has asked me to thank you for her lovely flowers - she'd do it herself but has left on family business early this morning, so thank you on her behalf and I'll try not to shorten their life while she's away :-bd

A big thank you to Collete for feeding you all on Sat morning - something that'll perhaps continue in future years.

Lastly - thank you to everyone who entered and rode. You are the WRT and I'm sure one day we will finally take over the world :grin: .. oh and this lad, what a star!

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:-bd like
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:-bd
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Looks like he got hungry and ate his dad :grin:
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:-bd :cool:
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Another :-bd
.. oh and this lad, what a star!

You're not wrong Stu!
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:-bd
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Pickers wrote:Another :-bd
.. oh and this lad, what a star!

You're not wrong Stu!
Definitely not wrong :-bd not only did he out climb all of us but when one of our group left his wallet on Carno hill he cycled back down and fetched it for only £30 :-bd
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'one' - you're even worse than me Stevo and that's saying something :wink:. Just don't mention train tickets.
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Whilst BDS *may* have dropped a number of items before we'd even left the environs of BB towers, in this particular case, Steve was not guilty m'lud. :shock:
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RIP wrote:'one' - you're even worse than me Stevo and that's saying something :wink:. Just don't mention train tickets.
This wouldn't be the infamous 1/2 HR faff in the cafe in Mach train ticket would it reg :mrgreen:
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Definitely not, I got back home ok so must have, er, had a ticket by that time :wink:.
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Hope your journey was more comfortable than mine , after the other 2 lads got their train I had a short kip on the platform being woken by every conductor on every train seeing if I was ok ,then when my train does turn up it's packed to the hilt so I had to stand all the way back to wolves holding onto my bike , there was a definite whiff about me at this point but as luck would have it there was also a couple people with dogs standing by me so I pointed out that there was a distinct wet dog smell in the air and few others agreed with me :lol:
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Would this be the same lad that gave Mr large a run for his money on the winter bivvy :-bd
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