JULY & AUGUST GASS MEETINGS

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 sunbathing. So Tony quickly and efficiently pivoted to a nice dinner at The Windmill in Hollingbourne.

LATE JULY - GASS LUNCH CLUB - At THE LUCKY CAT

The lunch club went upmarket for the end of JULY meeting. Owen picked The LUCKY CAT at 22 Bishopsgate, one of London's tallest buildings. In one of London's most expensive restaurants.

Before that a touch of clay pigeon shooting in a nearby video gallery, outright winner was the organiser, Mr Brunning.

Once the gunfire subsided it was on to the table, and on to one of the most expensive lunches for quite some time. The total bill was north of £2,000, and the best was on particular member who so enjoyed Waygu steak that he scoffed £390 worth of it washed down with £290 worth of sparkling wine, and a £13 chocolate truffle instead of a 'waffer thin mint'. All for the princely sum of £750.95 inclusive of a cheeky 15% service charge. That is what I call lunch!!!!

AUGUST - CHAIN SAW SCULPTING AT CHRIS'S

A meeting at Chris's for CHAIN SAW SCULPTING and a catered BBQ. Organisers Chris & Brian, but mainly Chris doing all the heavy lifting. Brilliant sunshine, tables in the garden, a professional chef providing a lovely dinner. Lashings of booze, even a bottle of sherry for Hugh.

Plus our chain saw expert who kicked off by handing a saw to a bunch of drunks to chop up a log into the thinnest possible roundel, winner Chris, second Brian. Then it was on to the main item. The sculpting of a massive prick. The photos do indeed do it justice the monster.....................

Its looking good, looking big ...................

Now that is a bunch of cock sculpters if ever I saw one!

Some of Hugh's birthday present ideas for Chris ..........

At the dinner that night the massive prick was raffled. It was one of those daft raffles where there were two people after the sculpture, so the price just kept going up and up. £61 flipping quid Brian paid just for a joke birthday present for 'Mick the Greek'. As you can see below Mike was pleasantly surprised. He said it was the nicest massive prick he has ever been given in all his 74 years.

He then promptly hid the thing from sight in his deepest shed, probably never to see the light of day again, and who can blame him? No accounting for taste, no appreciate of real art, bloody Greek philistine!