When I said I'd ordered Santa to make sure the weather would be flyable I
didn't realise the message would be sent to Satan!” opined CFI Don Puttock as
the mist (cloud) crept lower than the foundations of the clubhouse.
But that
wasn't the point of today, for today was the 'DGS Post Christmas Breakfast' – a
celebration of luxury fayre (bacon and blue chess rolls, smoked salmon mops,
scrambled egg with Somerset sausage and quail's eggs) that enticed members and
friends to enjoy some time and long tall stories with each other...
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| Some of the attendees. |
It was great
to see so many families, plus returning and (potentially) new members in the
clubhouse, including Nigel Williamson, son Richard (FlyBe Dash 8 pilot), and
family, Sean Parramour, Trevor Taylor (back to full flying fitness) and Paula
Howarth's boss (and potential new annual member) and Jayne Marsh partner
David Jones, in all totalling over 20 attendees. Alongside the tall tales (and
hopes for 500km out and returns in 2016) there was also talk of the End/Start of
the Season Club Social Evening to be held at the end of February, venue yet to
be chosen (suggestions gratefully received...)
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Chairman Martin Cropper thanks Roger Appleboom (left) and Don Puttock (seated centre)
for masterminding the club’s post Christmas Breakfast. |
Thanks go to Roger Appleboom and
Don Puttock for masterminding the breakfast, to Dave Downton for providing the
smoked salmon and to the club's gas cooker for coping with over 12 dishes being
prepared on its four burners.
Outside the clubhouse Mike Bennett, who has been
leading the charge in getting the track repaired, suggested that the field
needed to dry out before we attempt any more work on it, with the benefit of a
few days' Easterly winds. So where was the wind on Monday? – easterly, of
course! So no crossed wires in his email to Santa..!
Martin Cropper
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