HERETAUNGA CARAVAN CLUB

HERETAUNGA CARAVAN CLUB

Saturday 17 December 2016

Christmas Rally, Koputaroa Road – 9-11 December 2016

We had a good turn out for this years’ Christmas Rally. In attendance were Webb's (Hosts), Turnbull, Canvin, Fisk, Benton, Wylie, and Fitzgerald.

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The vans on the front lawn, unfortunately we missed out the Turnbulls

By about 4pm all were onsite on the Friday. Most had 4zzzes in the sunshine, the opportunity was taken to update the channels on Webb's caravan by Robin and Don. Later we all congregated in the conservatory where BBQ hamburger patties were cooked and everyone made up their own con-concoction. The evening also included some light entertainment provided by Geoff Herewini.

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Geoff Entertaining us

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Don Cooking the lovely thick Meat Patties

The evening concluded with general chatter with ample lubrication until we retired to the vans.

Saturday started off nice and warm and sunny, after morning tea of Christmas Tarts a few games of Disc Bowls and Quoits were entered into. There was also a game of Croquet on offer but no-one partook, perhaps they did not consider themselves to be old enough.

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Glenys, and Dot playing Disc Bowls with Derek umpiring.

Later on the rain began to fall and in the process of packing things away, closing windows etc. poor Don had a fall and severely cut his leg which required an ambulance and stitches. He had planed a rotisserie for us on the Saturday night and this fall put him out of action so the remaining men of the club pitched in and did the cooking for him. The cooking of the meat did not go without a hitch as the rotisserie mechanism failed to operate properly and had to be repaired, but we got there with a little help from son-in-law Nick.

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Who said you can’t watch cooking while internally basting with a cold beer.

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Done to perfection, note the Heath Robinson fix to the Rotisserie mechanism, the other end was worse.

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Doesn’t that look nice

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Master Carver Dennis in his pinny

Sunday dawned slightly better, so it was agreed that the car rally which was postponed from Saturday would now be held immediately after morning tea, which it was. After lunch which consisted of cleaning up the left overs from the xmas evening meal, we all broke camp and headed for home.

What a very enjoyable rally. Thank you to the Webb's for being fantastic hosts and putting on a great weekend, that is going to be hard to beat. On second thoughts I am not going to try.

See you at the next rally which is Kahutara Primary School, South Wairarapa on Anniversary Weekend 20-23 January 2017

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year. Stay safe on the roads if you are travelling.

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