This year the members decided to go a bit of piste, and try somewhere off the beaten track for a change. So we alighted on the idea of visiting Albania, Tirana to be precise. Looks nice, doesn't it............................ The following are the ADMINISTRATION DETAILS. If you only note one - note that you have to CHECK YOURSELF IN FOR THE FLIGHTS............... GASS AGM ADMINISTRATION DETAILS FLIGHTS - FRIDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER TRANSPORT: Arrange your own pick-ups from

Len really put his heart and soul into this one! He had an idea and he ran with it. He chose a fair location to balance out the meeting locations over the year, The Yew Tree pub in Sandling, down a little single track road, real rural country location, very pretty pub. Just a shame about the non-stop roar of the traffic thundering by on the A249 about 50 yards away and 30 yards up in the air! No matter. Even though it was only a pub meeting (therefore not needing any ente

The second "If it ain't dangerous, don't do it" meeting in just three months, following the nerve jangling slide down the Helix last month. Organised by Owen, this would have been a well attended event if it were not for yet another sad loss from The Castle Club, following the passing of a well liked member who provided for a well oiled wake which seemed more like fun than being dropped 21 stories to some GASS members. His loss, our gain. It meant the budget stretched not o

An AWAYDAY meeting held at Bluewater. Starting with a competition of F1 Simulator driving on three F1 tracks. Top flight simulators and a very tight result, The leader board is a bit blurred - but reads Owen, Brian, Andy, Gary, Wayne, the others were just also-ran Owen and Brian even beat Hamilton. OK, OK, he's not so fast nowadays. I get it. Then it was on to lunch at Gorden Ramseys Bread Street Kitchen, plus copious wines. The picture below is the restaurant, pretty im

Andy and Steve (or at least one of the duo) had obviously found a bird one of them though to be a song-bird. We all appeared at Oliver's restaurant in Rochester ready for a big surprise. It was advertised as a big surprise - and it was. A big surprise I mean. We all assumed this lovely lady who was singing lovely songs to us as we dined was going to proceed to something new and more interesting and maybe more exotic than warbling old songs by The Carpenters. By 'more inter

Eight Intrepid Warriers make their way to London Town..... Things getting a little frantic at one stage of the battle!! As usual we start with a few liveners at a pub at the top of Drury Lane before heading over to Sandbox VR for a 30 minute battle against hundreds of zombies, they literally kept coming!!!! In two teams of four we upheld the honour of England. Hugh and Brian upheld more than most having cheated and spend £5 each to buy Gatling Guns, the best weapon by far, b

GASS TROPHIES - PUB MEETING - Courtesy of Phil at the good old Rose & Crown in Hartlip. Its like a second home to GASS. BACK ROW - GOLF TROPHY, SHOOTING TROPHY, BIG COCK, SILLY SAUSAGE, MANNEQIN PIS. FRONT ROW - JCB RACING TROPHY, YARD OF ALE COMPETITION MISSING IN ACTION - THROW UP GOLF, ARM WRESTLING, GASS COFFIN, BREAD BOWL COVERING THE BIG COCK - THE CHAIRMANS NECKLACE It was lovely to see the trophies on display and get a memorial picture of (almost) all of them

After a bit of confusion a quick AWAYDAY was organised by someone. An evening of ELECTRONIC DARTS and a nice steak..... The confusion is understandable as the name of the two organisers for this meeting had been on the website since October 2025, and repeated in messages on Whatsapp subsequently. So how could the organisers, Graham and Ron, possibly be expected to know it was their meeting???? I ask you!? So at short notice a meeting was cobbled together. It involved us m

Slap up dinner and a music quiz, courtesy of Chris and Ray Well courtesy of Chris actually. Ray's sole input was to tell everyone where, when, what. Ray failed on all three counts and told everyone precisely the square root of fuck all. Cue rapid ring round at the last moment by Chris. We all turned up at the appointed hour, miles from anywhere, on a dark and rainy night to be enthralled by a very hairy man and an amazingly complicated and difficult music quiz. A very goo

A nice bite of buffet and a sketch artist in a dive bar in Chatham..... What a way to kick off the new year.......... Organised by John, a man who in the past has single headedly kept the annual GASS budget on track by producing excellent meetings for well under the allowed level of expenditure, keep up the good work! So (as I am reliably informed, I was not present, I am writing this drivel from a beach bar in Zanzibar) the meeting was held in fire trap of a cellar under a

CHRISTMAS AT THE IVY, CANTERBURY A formal (well, funny jackets to brighten the event, make it more festive), and SECRET SANTA. A really good turnout for a private room and full festive gubbins bash. A variety of festive jackets in evidence. Met in a local boozer for pre-loading before diving into the high priced (but very nice) venue already nicely toasted. Secret Santa gave us it's normal entertainment, its normal complete inability to keep the rules simple, and the now tr

Held at OLIVERS in Rochester and organised by Nick and Wayne, great concept, great meeting, really, really funny. Private room in Oliver's with a very nice dinner. The members were introduced to Joe, our resident magician for the evening, who performed a few warm up tricks and then we were split into four teams and each team was taken outside and taught one magic trick. Then we had the performances. First up was The Chairman, who did a really good trick involving a quite c

A pub meeting organised by Gary, who has got the logic of a pub meeting down to a fine art. Hold it just down the road from his house. Again. Great evening! Not the best photo ever, but it sets the scene. 16 of the remaining 19 sat down to an enjoyable dinner that came in under the £900 budget by a healthy £120. Mainly because so many members are now not chucking high value wines down their necks with gay abandon. Yes, 16 of the REMAINING 19 members. Not 22 members, jus

These minutes will be brief, mainly as the person writing them was not there to enjoy the trip. The CEO, Brian Henslow, missed his first AGM ever. Pathetic excuse, his daughter was getting married and would have taken it askance if he sent a stand in to walk her down the aisle! So the minutes will be restricted to a couple of pics and a set of truncated accounts. Accounts first. ACCOUNTS 2024/25: Ron decided not to send me a list of the individual meeting costs but did c

Pub Dinner instead of heat stressed eagles, a very expensive GASS Lunch Club meet at The LUCKY CAT, and a very enjoyable CHAIN SAW SCULPTING meeting at Chris's where a massive prick was born. JULY - DINNER AT THE WINDMILL PUB: After stormy weather stopped us petting Owls and Eagles. This was Tony's Entertainment evening and he had a great programme for us to pet birds of prey at a wildlife centre. Sadly the extreme heat put the kibosh, apparently the birds don't do sunbat

A real trio of activity meetings. Bugger off anyone who says GASS is getting boring (Graham). Multi sport at Diggerland and Burlesque, massive ZIPWIRE, and AXE throwing...... I mean that is really good, for £40 each! APRIL - DIGGERLAND for a multi-sports evening with electric quad bikes as the star of the show. Hugh laid on a proper challenge for the bike riders. Brand new electric quads which were as frisky as a young unbroken colt. Literally hair trigger reactions, th

A lovely Rochester pub meeting, BattleKarts in Sittingbourne, a take away dinner and a visit to The CUBE in Docklands. Not bad for the winter months. JANUARY - THE ROYAL CROWN in Rochester for dinner. A pub meeting, most winter meetings are pub meetings, at The Royal Crown in Rochester, a nice dinner in convivial surroundings. Alaways a nice quite one after New Years Eve. Thanks to Ron and Ray. FEBRUARY - An ENTERTAINMENT meeting, BATTLEKART Normally when driving Go karts

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