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: An interesting thing happened to me...
Last friday I went to the CLA game fare in Blenham palace. As is not uncommon at big events having filtered through about 45 minutes (or 4.5 miles) of traffic trying to get in to the show ground I ended up following lots of shiny 4x4s for which the field we were going in to was obviously the closest they had been to off road along slightly damp grass and, just as I get to the front of the queue the person waving his arms in order to direct traffic points at me and shouts something, obviously expecting me to (a) understand him (with earplugs in and a not too quiet engine) and (b) suddenly turn / stop to go somewhere else (on damp grass, with no ABS, on two wheels). Luckily I was expecting this (for both of us). Yes, the organisers had thought to provide motorcycle parking separate to the rest of the cars, unfortunately that was all they thought of as the motorcycling parking was in soft sand meaning as soon as any weight went on to the side stand it dug in until the bike was about as horizontal as possible before falling over. Thankfully, I had also planned for this and had sufficient proppage for the bike.
Anyway, lots of dogs around but impressively no dog poo due to the forethought of both the owners bringing poo bags and the organisers providing lots of dog poo bins (as well as dog watering stations). Also lots of people with guns (don't get to say that a lot in the UK).
Met up with the friends who were driving up and wandered around the showground, bought stuff (finally got some more cartridges) and ate stuff. While we were sitting on the ground having lunch we were approached by someone from www.meontv.com (or something like that) to see if we wanted to appear on 'Wife Swap' which was a laugh. How they thought anyone at a game fair was going to be interested in appearing on something like that I will never know.
Overall a good weekend and the CLA obviously know how to organise a show (well, expect for the traffic, but that's not their responsibility).
Tags: blenham palace, game, motorbikes, wife swap
Last friday I went to the CLA game fare in Blenham palace. As is not uncommon at big events having filtered through about 45 minutes (or 4.5 miles) of traffic trying to get in to the show ground I ended up following lots of shiny 4x4s for which the field we were going in to was obviously the closest they had been to off road along slightly damp grass and, just as I get to the front of the queue the person waving his arms in order to direct traffic points at me and shouts something, obviously expecting me to (a) understand him (with earplugs in and a not too quiet engine) and (b) suddenly turn / stop to go somewhere else (on damp grass, with no ABS, on two wheels). Luckily I was expecting this (for both of us). Yes, the organisers had thought to provide motorcycle parking separate to the rest of the cars, unfortunately that was all they thought of as the motorcycling parking was in soft sand meaning as soon as any weight went on to the side stand it dug in until the bike was about as horizontal as possible before falling over. Thankfully, I had also planned for this and had sufficient proppage for the bike.
Anyway, lots of dogs around but impressively no dog poo due to the forethought of both the owners bringing poo bags and the organisers providing lots of dog poo bins (as well as dog watering stations). Also lots of people with guns (don't get to say that a lot in the UK).
Met up with the friends who were driving up and wandered around the showground, bought stuff (finally got some more cartridges) and ate stuff. While we were sitting on the ground having lunch we were approached by someone from www.meontv.com (or something like that) to see if we wanted to appear on 'Wife Swap' which was a laugh. How they thought anyone at a game fair was going to be interested in appearing on something like that I will never know.
Overall a good weekend and the CLA obviously know how to organise a show (well, expect for the traffic, but that's not their responsibility).
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