Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 09:07 AM

Linda and I will probably have a couple of spare seats up from SE London if anyone's interested. Our basic route would be Blackwall Tunnel - M11 - A1 - A15 etc.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 05:28 AM

Feckin' Virgin Trains!! I've just spent over half an hour trying to find tickets from Bristol to Doncaster (they'd like to charge me about 100 quid for this privilge, despite the fact that they offer a 14 day advance price of 14 quid each way). Their phone line is one of those automated ones that you have to speak to - arrrgh!

Anyway, I'm going to try and bum a life to Sheffield and get a train from there. I think my mates should be going climbing that weekend (oh, the sacrifices I make for Mudcat!) so that gets me as far as Stanage Edge at least.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 02:58 AM

Hi Skipjack,

I have checked the timetables of the German and British Railways and am considering the big adventure of 17 hours train travel from my home to Barrow Haven Station, with a lively study of London Underground.
But as an alternative I'll check the amenities of Ryanair and such at the weekend. (Ferry from Rotterdam is too expensive for this man.)
I'm planning my arrival for Friday, and have booked my floor place long ago, remember? But two robust hooks 3 yards distant for my hammock can do, too.

Wilfried

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: MudGuard
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 04:34 PM

will that be a hamster curry then? ;-)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 04:28 PM

The wheels are square after Doncaster, Fibs, following the Hengist Pod model. If you can get to Hull central, I'll order a curry from Mustafa's, and you can hitch a ride with jOhn.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 03:19 PM

If it's travel arrangement time could anyone living within the Nine Circles of Hull tell me where the nearest train station might be?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 03:11 PM

Kate, how will you and Sarah get over? Don't forget I have your sleeping bag.Letty and Andy will be coming with me on the Friday night.

Skipkack you slut, how dare you call me nasty names when I suggested using an effects pedal for playing the guitar when you are actually doing it to your beloved chest piano!!( I dunno, the stuff we have to go through to be together)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: MudGuard
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 02:13 PM

First of all: Brid Widder, sorry if I offended you, it was not intended.

Second: I just booked the flights, so I will come!

Third: of course, I confirm the booking of floor space at your place, Skip!

cu soon!

Andy/MudGuard

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Kate
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 01:40 PM

I'm very late in reading this thread but just wanted to say that I'll come along with my friend Sarah if that's Ok Skipjack? Will have to start searching through the cellar for my tent. Might need a good dusting.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 09:46 AM

Linda doesn't like Whelks, but she quite enjoys the odd winkle.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 04:43 AM

Oaklet is at this very moment delivering my aerophone to an electrician in Birmingham, so cannot be here to opine. I am having talent substitute fitted. Delighted to hear that our lovely Letty is going to make it over from Cork.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 05:48 PM

Oaklet, you should see the size of the Severn whelks!

It's warmer down 'ere, you know, in the soft south.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 05:46 PM

....per whelk.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 12:23 PM

Of course there will be the nominal £57 charge.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 12:20 PM

Letty, Your landing time is noted, as is your returning time. I finish school about 15.30 that afternoon. I'll see what I can organise about pickup and transport over for you. You can see my puppy!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 12:16 PM

I'm sure that it screws up their wrestling abilities though.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 11:56 AM

Grease not good for whelks? I've always thought they went most excellently well with drawn butter.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 11:45 AM

I don't think that grease is good for Whelks - we'll have to check with Oakley, but I think it might have to be mud. I'm sure that the Whelks will be naked - except for their shells of course - so you might be asking for an unfair advantage.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 10:05 AM

Sorry Dave - grease, not mud. Nudity optional, although Oakley's proclivity for getting nekkid in the jacuzzi (before he sank under the bubbles in an untimely death) might suggest a general state of deshabille.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 09:51 AM

I hope that we can make your epic trip worthwhile Letty.

Fib - I hope that this Whelk wrestling will be performed naked in mud ! - perhaps I should get Essex Girl to enter.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Letty
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 08:28 AM

Good new, I've booked the flight, so I'm coming!

GOING OUT
From Dublin(DUB) to Leeds Bradford Uk(LBA)
Fri, 30Apr04 Flight FR154 Depart DUB at 12:40 and arrive LBA at 13:35

COMING BACK
From Leeds Bradford Uk(LBA) to Dublin(DUB)
Mon, 03May04 Flight FR153 Depart LBA at 10:25 and arrive DUB at 11:15

Hope the 5.15 train to Dublin doesn't break down (as trains usually break down when I set foot in them).
Wish I could have taken a direct flight from Cork, but BMI is not as cheap as they think they are :-)


Letty

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 06:24 AM

Tartrazine - in that case I'm not scared of your Whelks - they're Yellow.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 11:28 AM

Have taken out adequate whelk cover, Oaks - £57 well spent, although I believe there are real insurance companies that won't take any money for whelk insurance, and will welcome complete beginner wrestlers!!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Oaklet
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 11:07 AM

Whatever you do Fib, don't give that Skip E-Wing £57, otherwise someone will post with an amusing name, using exclamation marks and bold type. I have just prodded Ripper - the most promising of the wrestling whelks. What a difference a bit of carbo and tartrazene can make! Fiesty and aggressive with a deft and damaging touch of the foot. At this rate, entrants may have to sign a disclaimer.

Oi! Dave Bryant, I can assure you there is nothing reverse-spiral about my whelks. This sort of thing may be ok in Walton-on-the-Hyphens, but this is the north, where a spiral only goes in one direction. Such accusations, across a crowded bar would end in the premature demise of a pint pot, a hasty evacuation of the premises, bloodshed, an ambulance and handshakes in the morning.

'appen.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:50 AM

Dammit, the kazoo was the ace up my sleeve!
(Actually, I forgot the kazoo for the Portaferry meet, but replaced it with a more effective form of terror - my fiddle... I will be bringing that to the People's Republic of 'Ull, as the Greg the Oil Baron postively encourages wanton beginners' fiddlin'. I reckon 10 sets of the few polkas I know will blast the whelks into submission.)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:28 AM

You are not allowed to use a kazoo as a weapon !

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 08:59 AM

Oakley sweetie, I have double-jointed thumbs and hips - I hope this does not preclude me from the contest. I am prepared to make it fairer on the whelks by donning a blindfold.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 07:43 AM

Oh why does the winkle always turn to the right,
Turn to the right, turn to the right
Why does the winkle going upstairs at night
Put his little nightshirt on and turn to the right
Tail first he toddles up to bed
He pulls his little door down tight on his head
But why does the winkle always turn to the left
When he comes down for breakfast in the morning

I am informed by my friends at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex that this doesn't hold true for Whelks though, as Neptunea Contraria the reverse spiral Whelk is quite commonly found in that vicinity. Is this the reason that you are enquiring about how the Whelk wrestling entrants are organised in their dexterity, Oaklet ?

Incidently, Essex Girl cooks a superb Paella as will be attested to by the various attendees of our BBQs - perhaps she could use Whelks in one ?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Oaklet
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 06:41 AM

I have put a dozen or so on an intensive fitness program and a special diet of Quavers in order that the whelk-wrestling contests will be evenly balanced. Could potential participants let me know well in advance, stating whether or not you are left handed or allergic to satsumas.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 05:28 AM

My dear Lard Skip, I am concerned about the lack of activities on the Monday. My liver transplant may well be scheduled for that evening, and as it is a public holiday, I suggest a festive bout of grease-wrestling (whelks optional) during the daytime hours.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 05:21 AM

Will it include reverse parking in the price

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Oaklet
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 03:03 AM

£57???? What a rip-off!!!!!! There are sessions all over the world (most of which I've been to) where you can learn how to be as good as me for nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If any player has got £57 to burn on such a pointless excercise, they can just put it behind the bar at the Geriatric Eel and Pram whilst us experinced sessioneers rip along with gay abandon!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed!!!!

etc. etc.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 07:24 PM

Guest, it is being held from Friday 30th April to Monday 3rd May 2004 in the sleepy hamlet of Barrow Upon Humber, which nestles between the rolling Lincolnshire Wolds and the broad majestic Humber, in North Lincolnshire, close to the Humber Bridge and the place where jOhn from hull lives. But it might be in Stourport on Severn in July. An carping workshop is offered, abitiously priced at £57, but anyone interested will be unable to apply by PM.

The programme sketched out on the back of a fag packet, which is already in chaos, is:-

Friday night (30th April)      Mixed song and tune session in Six Bells, Barrow
Saturday Lunchtime (1st May)   Mixed song and tune session in Haven Inn, Barrow Haven
Saturday afternoon             Cultural tour of Hull, by coach from and to Barrow (these are high points of Eurogatherings)
Saturday night                Centrepeice concert, Barrow Village Hall, featuring a performance by Cara, open mic and separate singaround and tune sessions (if wanted)
Sunday Lunchtime (2nd May)    Mixed song and tune session in Royal Oak, Barrow
Sunday Night                   Survivors' Session in Six Bells, Barrow
Monday (3rd May)               Depart to seek liver transplant.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: mooman
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 12:09 PM

Preliminary timetable for the weekend posted by Skipjack towards the beginning of this thread.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 12:06 PM

Guest some of the info is throughout the thread, dont know if timetable exists, I suspect not at this stage, I'm sure one of the above can help, they are well worth a visit

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 08:32 AM

Where is all this happening exactly please, are there pub names villages towns etc and/or timetable. thanks

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Snuffy
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 08:29 AM

Especially as it's downhill going back, Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Wolfgang
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 07:48 AM

I'm also planning my travel already.
Trains: Muenster to Hull: 10 hours
       Hull to Muenster 14 hours

I found this time difference a bit puzzling.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: mooman
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 04:19 AM

I hope so Oaklet as I'm already making my travel arrangements! Seriously, I think that point was well-debated and has been resolved now.

Really looking forward to the long weekend, especially as I didn't get to Loughstock and Planxty (:>(

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Oaklet
Date: 16 Feb 04 - 03:27 PM

I thought it a good idea to refresh this thread. Has the question of the location and date been resolved? I only ask as Stourport-on-Severn is empty for the whole of July. Just agree a date and I'll have a word with the owner.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 05:13 PM

Terry K - Linda and I would be quite happy to transport you to and from the field suggested by Doug. BTW the site at Barrow Haven is a Caravan Club CL site, so you would need to be a CC member.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Noreen
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 09:45 AM

Wow- blast from the past- Terry K!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Terry K
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 08:10 AM

Whoops, cookie gone - that was me.

Terry

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 03:45 AM

I will need space for my camper, but all of the camping options seem to be at least a half hour walk, and I don't do them.

Barrow Haven looks nearest and a hook-up is always nice (just my .08333p) but I'm happy to go with the flow - I do think we campers should all be at the same place.

Let me know what you all decide.

cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:24 PM

Brid widder - I'm sure Andy/MudGuard didn't mean any harm and used the term 'trolls' tongue-in-cheek! He's VERY mild-mannered ... Hope you'll have a great festival, anyway!

As to the campsite: I'm not sure whether I'll be bringing the car, but if I do I'll need a parking space, so I'd be interested.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: brid widder
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 04:45 PM

It was this: -

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: MudGuard - PM
Date: 16 Sep 03 - 02:35 PM

I was just thinking about posting a note on the old thread - but this might bring the trolls (those who complain about date, place, ...) over here as well...


But thanks Skipjack...I'm sure we'll all have fun... I'm just sorry you won't all get to see Hull at it's best... WITH US IN IT!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:03 AM

Brid Widder, although I don't believe I am your accuser, I feel I ought to reply as the organiser, and say that I am sorry you feel insulted. I really didn't want all the shouting for and against the date that happened earlier on, as I only wanted two things. Firstly, that everyone accepts that the Eurogathering always happens on the first weekend in May, and secondly that I want everyone to do what they want, and attend the function that appeals to them most. I don't think the rather shrill debate on date was helpful, and I regret even more that it has left you feeling insulted, and ultimately ignored. I did respectfully point out to Dave that a lot of folk he mentioned had other festivals they intended to support, and that it was OK with me.

Please accept my apology for whoever insinuated you were engaging in Trolling, and I hope that you and all the regulars going to the Moor and Coast have a wild old time.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: brid widder
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:22 AM

Dave Bryant said...
'I think we should be trying to get all the mob who went to Stony Stratford there at least. That would include Micca & Kat, LtS & Manitas, and McGrath. ... What about McFat, Raggy and co as well.'

Well I've been forgotten but I was at Stony Stratford too... this sounds fun... and close to home I'm in Hull... several of of us did try to point out early on that this clashes with Moor & Coast http://www.moorandcoast.co.uk/   ...I know McFat is there... he's on the guestlist! & I'm fairly sure Raggytash will be there too. Can I say I feel very offended at being called a Troll for mentioning a previous committment that prevents me from welcoming you all to my home town... have fun ...

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Llanfair
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:12 AM

I think I might make it this year. Possible camper van if there's room.

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Eurogathering 2004 - May 1st-3rd
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 06:06 AM

Oh no more from jOhn - did you fill that hole in again ?

Lack of elsan dumping facilities doesn't really matter to us - we only ever use it for recycling beer.

Perhaps we ought to find out who else is interested in camping or caravanning. According to one of the postings above, the Ducks are not planning to bring their caravan now - any change to that if there is this site available ?

So - Good Morning Campers - please declare yourselves.