Just a reminder about the scheduled mince-pie cruise which will take place on Sunday 29th January.
Tom is organising the event and can be contacted via the contact page.
For more details of the event and the meeting places please check the Calendar page.
Hope to see you there.
At least still have a sense of humour!
A very Happy New Year to our Club Members and to all visitors to the website. Let’s hope we can manage to find the funds to attend the usual shows in 2012 even if the fuel costs have dramatically increased.
If the away events seem too far, make sure you join us for our regular events and the more local shows this year. Please see the Calendar page for known events to date. The Calendar will periodically be updated as and when we have more detailed information available.
Our first outing will be at the end of January and full details will be entered about a week in advance of the day. Hope to see you there.
Should raise a few smiles….
Hi guys,
>I normally wouldn’t do this, but it’s for a really great cause – so I’d be really grateful if you could please take a couple of minutes to read this.
Between April 6th and 13th I’ll be joining around 160 VW enthusiasts and riding a 50cc moped from John O’ Groats to Land’s End in aid of Brad’s Cancer Foundation. I’m financing my trip myself so every penny of any donations will go directly to the charity.
I’m hoping each of you can commit to sponsoring me for £5 – more would be nice, but a fiver would be great – and make a huge difference to the lives of some great kids.I know cash is tight and everyone is busy, but please take some time to read the details below.
If you can help please just reply to this email, if you can’t help, no worries, just click ‘delete’. The cash won’t need to be paid until the beginning of April by the way. I know we all normally groan when we get requests for ‘sponsorship’ – so, I’ll understand if you can’t help.
Thanks for reading.
Kind regards, Merry Christmas and a very happy 2012.
Brian Burrows
JOGLE 4 BRAD’S – VW ENTHUSIASTS ON 50cc MOPEDS!!!
Following an online discussion about long journeys on mopeds, a thread was started on Volkszone.com (VW) forums asking if anyone would be interested in a charity run from John O’Groats to Lands End – on 50cc > motorbikes!
Threads/Details:
http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=723339
http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=714873
As foolhardy an idea as it might appear, soon enough people started putting their names down and it has snowballed from there. There are now the best part of 160 riders and ‘support’ (following in VW Camper Vans) signed up, and, bearing in mind most only ‘know’ each other via the forums, it should prove for some interesting interaction – especially as the forums have some strong characters who have butted heads online previously.
We fully expect the trip to be full of ‘adventure’, dramas, comedy moments and the unexpected. The trip includes a visit to Nottingham City Hospital where the Brad’s charity has kitted out a ward for teenage cancer sufferers. The premise is simple, meet at John O’Groats in Scotland on the 6th April 2012 where we will rally together that evening at the John O’ Groats Campsite ready for the off on the (early) morning of Saturday 7th April 2012.
Over the following week, we aim to cover around 1,000 miles to Lands End in Cornwall while raising money for the Brads Cancer Foundation along the way.
BRAD’S CANCER FOUNDATION WEBSITE: http://www.brads.org.uk/ > > JOGLE4BRADS FACEBOOK PAGE: > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jogle-4-Brads/150872894986362
The whole journey will culminate in a weekend VW Camper Festival (again, with proceeds going to Brads) – please see: > http://www.vwaction.com/vwactionsw/index.php —————————————————————————
Webmaster:
We wish Brian well and look forward to seeing how well he survived the trip as mopeds don’t have hide upholstery, air conditioning and all the creature comforts his large Chrysler provides……………bet he will be knackered with a capital K!
We have been offered space to put a display on for CVWOC and hope to pre sell weekend tickets for the Jamboree and Club merchandise. Helpers will be needed. Please contact via the Contact Us page if you would like to help.
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We would like to take this opportunity to wish all members and visitors to our website a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Take care if you go to parties and take the car with you. the last thing you need to do is be pulled over, breath tested and found positive. Then begins a traumatic period of your life, back to using non-existent public transport, possibly the loss of your job and in extreme circumstances even your home and most importantly you would not be able to drive your beloved VW to shows or on cruised……..disaster for sure! Be wise, if you drive DONT drink and, if you do, make your way back home leaving you car where it is.
Have a great time but plan before you go out so the decisions are made when sober and not with a skin l and when you think you really are an invincible superman !
Oh yes, don’t forget to make sure your pets are not forgotten if you have fireworks over the Festive Season, they still go bang even in December!
Norman & the Committee of CVWOC
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Not all pages are populated yet but I have tried to design a site which is intuitive to use with a good deal of content initially which will be added to over the coming months/years.
It is my hope that members will contribute content for the site, especially, for the Senior member areas and, also, to suggest other topics to raise a page for. Ant technical articles can be sent to me as a text or word processor file with accompanying illustrations in either .jpg or .gif format please. Microsoft office or any of the free office suites such as Crystal Office will be fine to use or, word-pad or notepad .txt files will do just fine.
Anyone with a super recipe they wish to pass on t o other members please send the recipe in to me for upload to the recipe section.
Any useful household or mechanical tips will also be welcomed.
If you happen to attend one of our events of go to a show with the Club an account of the experience would be very welcome too. I f you have some pictures sent them too please.
The Junior pages have been populated with some activity links but if the next generation of Dubbers have any workable suggestions I would like to hear from them too.
Uploading images tales a long time and it will be a while before the uploading is complete.
When you visit please make sure your register as a site user please and it would be appreciated if you could use your real name rather than something like ‘hissingsid’ as it is good to know who has signed up and if you are already a member.
The old site had problems with being able to use the contact us boxes which never actually worked. I have put that right within these pages and where contact might be necessary a working contact request form is included. The one within the Contact Us page will enable you to send a message directly to any of the Club’s officers or Committee members, with the exception of John Ward as he has yet to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century having no computer or mobile internet access.
Discontent was known of where the old site was concerned but without constructive input from site users it has been very difficult to judge exactly what was considered to be lacking. Just saying the site is *********** is no help at all.
Each post and page has the facility for comments to be added by registered site users. Your comments will not appear immediately as they will be moderated to ensure they are not offensive or left by a ‘spambot’ trying to get members for an adult site, for example.
I look forward to your comments either on the site or, go to the Contact us page and send a message to webmaster or Chairman.
Norman
