Fox and Hounds 2006

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 11 May 06 - 01:10 PM

no Snow!!!!!

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 11 May 06 - 12:57 PM

That sounds good to me.
Scooby.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 11 May 06 - 12:18 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1891

will give you the weather for the weekend.
Fri - sunny
Sat - Black clouds
Sun - cloudy

at the moment.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 11 May 06 - 08:21 AM

Whats the weather like down there,here in Llantrisant we had thunder and lightening last night.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Hawker
Date: 11 May 06 - 08:19 AM

But you'll be able to stay awake all night singing!!!!!

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats at Work
Date: 11 May 06 - 06:48 AM

And our camper too.. at this rate you'll be drinking so much coffee you 'll be in the loo all day, let alone up a Tor!!

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 11 May 06 - 04:46 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 10 May 06 - 06:47 PM

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Polly Squeezebox
Date: 10 May 06 - 05:26 PM

Same offer available from our camper too Hils.

Polly

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Hawker
Date: 10 May 06 - 04:56 PM

If not, Hils, just come to our camper and said cuppa will be available!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: My guru always said
Date: 10 May 06 - 04:51 PM

Probably a silly question from a Newbie to F&H, but is there a kitchen in the bunkhouse that one can make a cuppa in come morning? And if so, can one put milk in a fridge?

Coffee is Vital first thing, especially if there's a trot up the Tor in the offing :-)

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 10 May 06 - 08:52 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 10 May 06 - 06:27 AM

Okay Cats i will put it in to my mobile right now.
Thanks.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats at Work
Date: 10 May 06 - 06:19 AM

Bring them with you!!!! I'm not called cats for nothing!!!!

Scooby _ bring our number with you and if anything goes wrong with your travel plans, phone Jon

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: pixieofdoom
Date: 10 May 06 - 05:24 AM

Looks like we won't make it either as we have 6 newborn kittens to keep an eye on!

Hopefully next year......

Hope you all have a great weekend. See you soon

Fiona and Chris x

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 10 May 06 - 03:32 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 09 May 06 - 03:17 PM

Sorry we can't make it.

Have a wonderful weekend

Love Khatt x

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats at Work
Date: 09 May 06 - 09:25 AM

Great news... see you on Friday

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 09 May 06 - 06:33 AM

My train tickets have arrived.So all i need is a festival to go to now.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Abuwood
Date: 09 May 06 - 03:44 AM

This will be our first caravan tow down the motorway but we are looking forward to a lovely relaxed weekend at th F&H.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 08 May 06 - 04:32 PM

I am looking forward to seeing my friends again.Especially you and Jon.

Scooby

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 08 May 06 - 02:48 PM

It will be really good to see you there, Scooby! Yes, the pub does really excellent food, everything from a bacon roll to haute cuisine. Dave, who used to be the chef, now manages the pub and is keeping up the good food tradition. And if all else fails, I'm sure we can find you something in our camper... and that brings us straight back to hedonism and debauchery!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 08 May 06 - 11:58 AM

I am coming by train on Friday,i thought i would miss Tredegar House for once.
cats does the pub do food during the day so i dont need to bring my stove ta.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: SussexCarole
Date: 07 May 06 - 12:44 PM

Looking forward to meeting Barbara again....she came to Upton with us and we had a brilliant time

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Eye Lander
Date: 07 May 06 - 12:03 PM

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 07 May 06 - 11:50 AM

Voice in good working order... Might even find a song or two to sing if you are very lucky!!

Successfully met up with Barbara from USA yesterday at Flora day. She sends her love to all she met last weekend and she will be at F & H on Friday.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: My guru always said
Date: 07 May 06 - 04:37 AM

Sounds great Cats! And good causes too, will bring spare change. Hope all's well & that you'll be able to sing for us!

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 06 May 06 - 02:50 PM

Neither. We charge you £5 for entry for the whole weekend[accommodation on top to the pub] to cover the costs and what is left, along with what goes in the glass when Jon and I sing on Saturday night goes to the childrens hospice. In the course of the evening we will sing and pass a glass around, sking you to put in the price of what you are drinking or whatever you want, and that's what goes to the kids.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Morticia
Date: 05 May 06 - 05:14 PM

do you want raffle prizes (a la Miskin), Cats, or do you just short arm us out of our small change at regular intervals?

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 05 May 06 - 11:37 AM

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: My guru always said
Date: 02 May 06 - 06:08 PM

Really looking forward to it, don't need many reasons personally - just good company, ale & singing!!

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 02 May 06 - 02:42 PM

... I didn't mention it earlier because it's not something we shout about, it's just something we do, but amongst all this frivolity and 'not what people would wish from small festivals', we have managed to: keep one of the Dartmoor Rescue Landrovers on the road for a year, brought a little girl over from Chernobyl for a life saving holiday, helped raise the money for a teenage boy with severe cerebral palsy go on a sail training ship, helped send a profoundly deaf girl on a cycle ride across Peru, contributed to the work of Rapid UK by raising money for the toys which they pad their boxes with for the children in the areas they send their rescue teams to, helped equip a classroom in a school in Angola, adopted two rescued donkeys and this year we are going to try and raise some money to donate to the building of a second Children's Hospice for the South West [the present one helps 200 children a year and there are about 600 more on their waiting list...] Even more reason why you should come.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats at Work
Date: 02 May 06 - 04:11 AM

Hi Guest,
Yes Jon and I do 'organise' the Fox and Hounds. As others have said before me it is a very small weekend when people gather at a very small pub on Dartmoor, which loves having us there, to sing, relax, and generally have a good time. There is no pressure on anyone to do anything, there are no guests, no performances. There are people who come hundreds of miles to this because it is something which grew from a need ~ somewhere to go purely to relax and sing. If people didn't want this then they wouldn't come. They do, so there must be a need for weekends like this. What it is not is a festival. We book the pub, tell them we are coming, let people know they are very welcome to come and if they turn up we have a weekend and if they don't..... well, we've never had a year yet when there wasn't anyone there. Why don't you come and see for yourself. You ~ and everyone else ~ are Very Welcome.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 01 May 06 - 07:49 PM

Guest. I'm not sure what you believe the F&H weekend to be. If you are suggesting that this is a closed shop restricted to the small number of people who have posted here, then you are mistaken. If it was, then it would not be advertised on a public forum.

It is, as has already been said, a weekend of singing, and as such welcomes people interested in singing. The fact that there has been some banter here amoung F&H regulars does not detract from the standard of the singing, and good singing does not stop people from enjoying themselves.

Festival? I think you were the first person on this thread to use the word. However, it does go on my list of festivals every year, and has done since it started at it's old venue someteen years ago. I wouldn't keep driving 200+ miles for a weekend that wasn't worthwhile.

Polly, there are rumours and there are RUMOURS!! That was well below the belt!!!

cheers

Brian

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Hawker
Date: 01 May 06 - 06:38 PM

Happy May 1st Guest, congratulations for noticing that some people have posted more than once and that yes, Cats is the organiser. If you read the first post, by Cats, the organiser, you will see that it is not so much a Festival as a weekend of song. To me festival conjures up a weekend of music song and dance with other stuff thrown in for good measure. A weekend of song is errrr..... A weekend of singing. If you want to morris dance all weekend or play the banjo till you are blue in the face, then this may not be your kind of weekend, but it is fun, friendly, a superb venue in the heart of Dartmoor, and I have in the past been witness to some fine singarounds and singers at Fox & Hounds, coupled with the great company I have always met with, I think the description does not breach the trade descriptions act and I'll be there.
And as a small observation , several of the people who posted here also posted to the Miskin thread and were there - an 'award' winning festival - 'nuff said
Lucy

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Snuffy
Date: 01 May 06 - 06:31 PM

If it were what most people wished it would be a very big festival indeed - and then they wouldn't want it!

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 01 May 06 - 03:51 PM

I thought you would like to know that the same people including Cats the organicer writes to this thread.Which makes me beleive that this festival is not what most people wish from small festivals.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Polly Squeezebox
Date: 01 May 06 - 12:33 PM

That was debauchery and hedonism, Brian. Buggary WOULD be taking it too far!

Polly

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 30 Apr 06 - 09:35 PM

D&H are back on the programme!!! Oh bugger, I'd better get some sleep, then.

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Hawker
Date: 30 Apr 06 - 06:56 PM

Yippeeee!!!
Cats.....Mental age yes, reality check Nope!
Cheers Lucy

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 30 Apr 06 - 12:54 PM

OK, Debauchery and Hedonism is back on the programme!! I'll order the cake for 2011!! [I thought you were younger than that!]

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Apr 06 - 07:04 PM

I thought it sounded quite good actually, then you brought it back down to normality..... Please let there be a bit of debauchery and hedonism, this year will be my 45th birthday and next year... I'll let you do the maths, but Fox & Hounds 2011 will be a good one for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 29 Apr 06 - 04:19 PM

For those of you getting a bit worried about all this, it isn't really that bad. We do have some exceptional singing along the way, the landlord loves having us there and the beer and food are excellent. The pub is on the edge of Dartmoor and is only a few minutes off the main A30. The pub has its own campsite as well as a bunkhouse and hotel rooms. Next year will be the 10th birthday and they put it in the diary last year!
See you all there

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 28 Apr 06 - 02:23 PM

Sorry folks, Debauchery has to work at weekends these days, and Hedonism can't make her mind up whether she coming or not. ("You don't know what it's like doing 12 GCSE's!!!")

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 28 Apr 06 - 12:11 PM

I've got the photo's to prove it!!! Now isn't Phot coming this year, I do hope he brings his camera........

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Morticia
Date: 27 Apr 06 - 04:33 PM

Best put Brian in charge of those, Cats......he sounds like a man with experience.*G*

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Cats
Date: 27 Apr 06 - 01:30 PM

Debauchery and Hedonism aren't actually on the programme... but I could put them on if you want!!!!

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 27 Apr 06 - 06:59 AM

Probibly not, but I bet your sense of adventure and curiosity will get the better of you.

See you there

Brian

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: Morticia
Date: 27 Apr 06 - 06:35 AM

Good heavens, is this a place a gently raised woman such as myself should be attending, with all this hedonism and debauchery?

Subject: RE: Fox and Hounds 2006
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 26 Apr 06 - 08:14 PM

Polly, you really shouldn't go spreading rumours - Jacqui and early morning drinking, me dressed in rubber. How cruel of you.

It's all lies, lies, damn lies, I say!!!

Exit, protesting too much.........