BS: Stony Stratford Raffle anyone?

Subject: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 07:09 AM

I'm happy to run a raffle, if people would like to donate some nice prizes please? Please, no Highland bagpipe records.....

I'll start the ball rolling with some home baked fruitloaf, and some children's videos.

Tickets the usual sort of price £1.00 a strip (that's the tickets, *I* charge much more for a strip..... and even more to keep my clothes ON! Bratling does it for free, so there's no point....), to be drawn Sunday lunchtime?

All proceeds to Mudcat of course.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Lanfranc
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 07:21 AM

Add a bottle of wine from me.

Alan

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 07:43 AM

And a Dark the Day CD from me (they're becoming collectors' items...)

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Micca
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 09:16 AM

Liz, I have a Bert Hansell (that is Mudcat Bert )CD for you and will have a fossick around and see if I have anything else i can donate..

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 10:42 AM

As previously offered 2 bottles of malt whisky.
Slainthe....Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Llanfair
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 12:47 PM

I'll bring one of my driftwood creations, and a CD.

Cheers. Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 08:10 PM

Whoo hoo, some stuff worth having there chaps, keep it coming....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 09:26 PM

If everybody brings a prize, just about everybody should up with a prize. A caucus race.

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 09:27 PM

If everybody brings a prize, just about everybody should end up winning a prize. A caucus race.

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Llanfair
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:06 AM

I like the odds, McGrath, Both of them!!!!

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:25 AM

Ah, but what are the odds on you going with the same prize you brought with you....?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: JudeL
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:30 AM

Are we talking about a raffle here or a lucky dip or both? How about having "mystery" prizes pre-wrapped? Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:38 AM

There's an idea.... how many children are going to be there??

We could put them in a room, and parents take a lucky dip and hopefully go home with a better behaved one than when they came.....!!

No?

Oh well, it was an idea.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: MudGuard
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:50 AM

Liz, I know you made the last suggestion (lucky dip on children) only because you know that you can't get a worse one than you have ;-) (don't tell Phoebe I said this...)

MudGuard

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:54 AM

Don't say that, I'm relying on you to keep her under control!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: MudGuard
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:55 AM

Let me sit on her and she might be under control...

though not alive...

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: vectis
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 09:21 AM

Bottle of wine coming with me. It'll be my own so watch out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not caravanning any more, staying with family in MK but should be with you all some of the time.

The best laid plans of mice and men will oft times gang aglay.

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: John Routledge
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 12:53 PM

To connect the Gathering to our American friends I will donate a new boxed Jelly Belly Bean Juggler made in California where presumably they are considered essential to living in 21stC.

Beans to refill the Juggler are easily obtainable in the UK and taste delicious. A battery is included.

The box says Ages 4 to 104 so that should cover most of us on a good day. Cheers John

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Diva
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 12:50 PM

I'm sure I can find something suitable..though perhaps not chocolate since i could scoff that coming down on the train.

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 05:16 PM

I'm sure there are shops here that take Scottish money, and will sell you quantities of chocolate......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: MudGuard
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 05:36 PM

But then there is still the way from the shop to York house - the chocolate might melt away....

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Llanfair
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:20 PM

Chocolate evaporates if left unattended, everyone knows that!!!

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Tone d' F
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 07:58 PM

I'll throw in a bottle of mead or two

If I was able to be there longer I would offer to sell tickets for you

£1.00 a strip £2.00 I dont STRIP

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 06:53 AM

If I can get an extra all-metal kazoo I'll stick one of them in the raffle - who wouldn't pay good money for a chance to win one of those?

Subject: What's on in Stony Stratford?
From:
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 09:32 AM

Hi. People keep on asking me about this event? I'm a folkie and I maintain the Stony Stratford web site and I don't know! Help! Is it something you'd like me to put on the town calendar at www.stonystratford.co.uk? BTW there's lots of info there about the town.

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 09:44 AM

Wotcher Malleson, I've been trying to pound the location info and URL into people's heads for some weeks... give me a ring (or talk to me tonight at the Fox?)

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:27 AM

Mrs P has found a secret, but limited, supply of metal kazoos. I'll bring one for the raffle.

BTW, the likelihood is that a small number of people will go home with all the prizes, and most of us will go home with none!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 03:33 AM

In fact, I shall have a small but limited supply of small but limited metal kazoos for sale to the kazoo-impaired, specially imported from the US at great personal expense and trouble. (The kazoos were imported, not the kazooless unfortunates.)

Kazteve

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 02 - 04:13 AM

I'm refreshing this in the hopes it might generate a few more replies before I drink the beer, use the CD as a place mat and do unspeakable things to the other thing.

35

70

228

267

277

and I think 177. I say I think, because I'm convinced the owner of this came forward, and chose a prize there and then..... if not, then it's a good job Eric wasn't there to collect his present, it will go in the prize pool.

Prizes are: a bottle of bubbly, a bottle of beer, another bottle of beer, a Bert Hansell CD, a tin of Hawick balls and something else.

Herga Kitty has claimed either the balls or the CD, I can't remember.

If they are not claimed before next Sunday 24th, they will go in the Mudcat auction. Of down my gullet....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 02 - 04:14 AM

That should be OR down my gullet....

Oops - many a slip twixt keyboard and hit....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 16 Feb 02 - 12:06 PM

Liz

I didn't exactly claim the mint balls, I just worked out that, by the time all the prizes in bottles had been claimed by the numbers preceding 277, that was what I'd get. I have no objection at all to bubbly (if dry) or beer (depending which brewery) but I have no idea what tracks are on the Bert Hansell CD (or whether I'd want a prize that Micca had fossicked for). I also had no idea how many other claimants would show up. PM me if you want to avoid thread drift. No, hang on, that's what this thread is about.....

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Micca
Date: 16 Feb 02 - 12:18 PM

Kitty, It is Mudcat Bert and has some good songs, on, I own a copy myself and it has his classic "size doesnt matter" on it...

Subject: RE: BS: Stoney Stratford Raffle anyone?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 16 Feb 02 - 12:34 PM

As far as I know I haven't met or heard Mudcat Bert (sorry Bert, probably my fault) but I suspect that renditions of "size doesn't matter" could be of lasting interest (well, lasting longer than any single bottle, or even minty balls). So, Liz, I claim the Bert Hansell CD as my raffle prize. I leave it to you to work out who will see whom when to arrange delivery. If all else fails, Micca is thinking of coming to Dog Days in 3 weeks' time.

Kitty