JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH MEETINGS

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 the venue get all protective over their babies, you get a real bollocking if you bash into another kart, sissies! This is different. A battle while driving go karts, organised by Stuart, with a dinner at The Tudor Rose pub afterwards. Much more like it.

Well done Stuart and Graham, good choice, never done that before.

MARCH - PUB MEETING - TAKE AWAY DINNER

A take away dinner at a pub in Rochester, The Rising Sun. A real old school GASS meeting organised by Nick which featured a dinner comprising of an actual take-away being delivered to a drinks-only pub. And a proper Medway pub at that. On the corner of a residential street of terraced houses. Sort of place that would be full of old men in flat caps nursing a pint of mild and bitter and petting a whippet. If it was in Yorkshire...... This was full,of shaven heads and bull mastiffs, but who cares? We are big boys and so we crowded together for safety and drank our sarsaparilla like men.

We couldn't wait to tuck in! On the bright side (and somewhat unsurprisingly) Nick came in several hundred pounds under budget on this one so we can only say congratulations!!!

GASS LUNCH CLUB at The CUBE in Docklands

With lunch afterwards at Hawksmoor Steakhouse.

A good team turned up for this very upmarket version of the TV game THE CUBE. A few sherberts before in a cocktail bar to make sure we would be crap at these games of reaction and logic. Then it was pick your team pairs time.

As one of the oldest there Brian was keen to get a young upstart as a teammate, someone brimming with vim and vigour, somebody like say Wayne, whippet thin, strong as steel, kick like a mule, or maybe Owen, tall, fit, squash player, supple, youngest member. Or maybe Ian, strong as an ox, fast as a striking thingamybob. There was plenty to choose from. Who did I get???????????

Pete, about to spring into lazer like action.

Yup, the bastards all teamed up and left me with Pete! The oldest, certainly not the fastest or the supplest, and already standing on the outside of three large gin & tonics. Pete noticed my initial alarm, I really must try harder to keep my emotions from showing so plainly on my face. He was miffed. Fair enough. As far as I was concerned I was fucked , so honours even. But we teamed up. Had too, we were the last two :)

Let the games begin...................

Complicated, active, real puzzels, all sorts of different games testing all sorts of real and varied skills - AND PETE AND I ALMOST WON THE BLOODY THING. We came a very close and credible second, talk about the tortoise and the hare (Google it).

And it was mainly down to PETE! Plus a bit of judicious cheating that only old people are good at, the sneaky bastards. Well done Pete. Talk about an object lesson for me. Ever since I try and team up with Pete!!

Another excellent GASS LUNCH CLUB organised yet again by Owen. Top notch!