APRIL, MAY, JUNE GASS MEETINGS

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, the slightest squeeze on the accelerator meant a 0-60 spasm and a nasty skid as the brakes were hastily applied. Really took some getting used to. Then Skittles with 360 excavators. Then a treasure hunt in a the children's multi story play area. Then a full dinner. Then an amazing Burlesque show. I have to say it was amazing and brilliantly done Hugh. It just shows what you can buy with £40 when GASS members put their minds to it!!

Sorry, couldn't find the pics of the super quads, so group photos will have to suffice. Just imagine the quads off to the left above. Clouds of dust, great big skids, amazing machines, really big......

Too many group shots I hear you say? Sorry. Enjoy the one of the excavators.

And enjoy even more the eventual winners. Well deserved I say.

The assembled competitors replete after an amazing dinner.

MAY - Off to HALLING LAKES for a massive ZIP WIRE

and a Pizza supper afterwards.

Superbly organised by Ian. A really interesting venue at the lakes on probably the only cold and windy day all summer. But we persevered. Biggest zip wire in England apparently. GASS are zip wire experts having done the one at Bluewater, the pop up one in London, plus others to numerous to mention. This was a long one and a cold one. But great fun, especially for Andy who still has not conquered his deep fear of heights and flimsy metal grid floors that show you only too plainly where you might end up if you trip.

Four at a time, off we all went, well not Andy obs. He was trembling at the bottom of the stairs, not fear, just freezing cold in May.

I didn't get any pics of the pizzas, you know what a man eating a pizza and drinking a beer form a can looks like. If not then you have no imagination!

JUNE - AXE THROWING, ARCHERY & RIFLE SHOOTING

Another test of our killer abilities with archery, pistol shooting and axe throwing. All included at a very down home sort of range in the Dartford area. On arrival it looked a bit like the sort of place where the locals just bought their own guns, axes and bows along from the house for a bit of one on one mayhem.

We were more circumspect and settled for throwing the axes at targets, the arrows at the the big straw things and the guns at paper squares and tin cans. Yes, a bit gay, but we are not actually from Dartford or Gravesend so we are not as adept as them at dodging the incoming. As you can see from the video below some of are also shit at the outgoing....................

To be honest we were pretty shit at a lot of it, so we buggered off down the pub, but first we gave it a go.....

Thanks to Keith and Andy for the battle skills, thanks to Ian for the zip wiring, thanks to Hugh and John for the Diggerland event and the Burlesque.

All great and imaginative meetings. Lets keep them coming guys!