GZ Weekender/NAE 2012

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ian where the hell did you come from? :lol:

 
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That's me booked into Delta team - I would say "Awooga!", or some such outburst, but I'll direct my enthusiasm into trying to get organised...

Where they asked for Team Name, if you're part of an existing team, I put AF-UK.

I've also booked my trains and, for anyone who may also be travelling from/through Nottingham to Salisbury via London St. Pancras Intl and London Waterloo on the 24th and 27th returning who would like to meet up along the way, here is my itinerary:

Outward - Friday 24th August 2012

DEPART 09:28 Nottingham

ARRIVE 11:16 London St Pancras Intl

SEATING Coach E, Seat 31A (Window)

TRAVEL BY East Midlands Trains

TUBE 11:16 London St Pancras Intl

TO 12:20 London Waterloo

DEPART 12:20 London Waterloo

ARRIVE 13:43 Salisbury No seat reserved with this ticket *

TRAVEL BY South West Trains

Return - Monday 27th August 2012

DEPART 10:47 Salisbury

ARRIVE 12:19 London Waterloo No seat reserved with this ticket *

TRAVEL BY South West Trains

TUBE 12:19 London Waterloo

TO 13:15 London St Pancras Intl

DEPART 13:15 London St Pancras Intl

ARRIVE 14:59 Nottingham

SEATING Coach C, Seat 40A (Window)

TRAVEL BY East Midlands Trains

Does anyone want to swap mobile numbers to make finding each other easier?

If so, I suggest we all pm them to 1 person who can then send them to everyone else: saves a lot of potential aggravation/mistakes/weirdness! I'll volunteer if nobody else wants the job, unless anyone feels that somebody else would be more trustworthy and/or appropriate.

After further thought, I'm going to start a new thread for mobile numbers

Here it is: GZ Weekender AF-UK Squad Comms

 
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good work lad im in to same boat when it comes to travel and the planning involved bus from home to Dublin stay the night fly to London bus to Ringwood and walk the rest with a 20KG duffle bag in my tactical kilt B)

 
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is everyone off af-uk camping in the same area then or splitting up?

 
ah thats a shame

joshcowin

jake parker (my mate)

harry williams (amother mate)

finius

flynn

flynns mate jim

liam porter

Craig

Jason

ian_gere

liams +4-5

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Up to 4 mates coming now, two definite, two need to sort out money and one needs to sort out travel as he live in Bristol :P

 
any of you's know if you can post all your kit to the site

 
craig said:
any of you's know if you can post all your kit to the site
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No idea, mate. You'd be best emailing them direct and asking I reckon: [email protected]

You can't be the first person to have considered doing just that to avoid taking kit on a plane, eh?

So when you said "good work lad", did you mean for starting the Comms Thread?

is everyone off af-uk camping in the same area then or splitting up?
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I'd like us to camp in a circle so we take over a clearing in the middle between our tents, if possible. Is whoever it was who said they're bringing an open fire bowl/stand/thingy still coming? If so, that would be great in the middle, but even if not, it still makes sense because we can make a couple of well defined paths in and out and hang things like supermarket bags on our guylines to discourage people from walking through and tripping over them, pulling the pegs out, tearing tents, falling over onto tents, etc., and it makes sense from a security point of view too (I have a good deal of faith in my fellow man, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that thieves don't wear black and white striped jumpers and eye masks).

If we camp in different places, it'll take forever to organise deploying out into the field... as it were :lol: even if more than one person takes me up on the mobile phone number swap idea! You know how it is, for every extra person involved the amount of time it takes to get from it being a good idea to actually going is multiplied exponentially. If we're not all there to hurry each other up, or just by our foot-tapping, sighing, presence, shame people into getting their sh!t together, it'll be 1/4hr, 20mins, 25mins, 1/2hr... we might as well bloody forget it!

I mean, I'm not into appointing a leader/s whose authority extends into the camping area, although I wouldn't mind taking orders from somebody who has a plan out in the field, so long as they're delivered without any 'up-themself-ness', but TBH, that's the only way I could see us being able to deploy as a team if we are camped in a variety of locations: you know, one person to say, "This is 'H hour' of 'D day', be there on time or fμ<Ж off and die!" Not my idea of a fun weekend...

Yeah, that is a shame Nick.

 
yeah the camping idea sounds good to me,have a few beers round the fire,last year it wasnt the players that wernt ready it was the marshall,it was quite funny seeing the marshalls trying to stop 1700 blood hungry hounds from starting.

 
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yeah the camping idea sounds good to me,have a few beers round the fire,last year it wasnt the players that wernt ready it was the marshall,it was quite funny seeing the marshalls trying to stop 1700 blood hungry hounds from starting.
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LOL! Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war!

 
yeah ha ha.there is now going to be a big screen to watch movies on instead of a live band as it couldnt be organised

 
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yeah ha ha.there is now going to be a big screen to watch movies on instead of a live band as it couldnt be organised
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Probably better for me because the band would almost certainly not have been to my taste. I mean I'm generally so sick to the back teeth of pretty much anything with electric guitars, but most especially the classic format 4-5 piece band, that I really can't listen to anything but the foremost practitioners of the art, usually those responsible for creating a style or whole genre actually, or if not, giants within the pantheon of musos' gods anyway... I realise that sounds snobby, but I'm a sound engineer - it's just been done to bleedin' death!

 
so dubstep would also annoy you then ha ha.i think family guy is going to be played along with others

 
I am extremely interested in going along to this, just had my summer leave confirmed and I'll definitely be off that weekend. Anyone have any objections to taking a (relative) newbie along? Also, what to do about battery charging, other than just bringing along a couple of fully charged ones?

 
you'll have to be quick the booking date ends on the 1st

 
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