Cheshire & North Wales IVC

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IVC Cheshire & North Wales

IVC SEPTEMBER 2010

Hi everyone, welcome to the September edition of the Cheshire and North Wales IVC bulletin. Firstly, a word for any of you that have been surprised by cheques coming out of your bank account recently. Due to problems with Alliance and Leicester, we have only recently been able to hand over control of club funds to the new committee. Any of you that paid your membership for this year by cheque will have seen that money go out of your account last month (August), as we finally got control of the account. Apologies to anyone that was surprised by that.

The camping barn weekend was lots of fun and it was good to see people up there. It’s a shame the weather wasn’t too good, but this summer that was nothing special and we got out walking anyway! Although we tried very hard, we managed not to have anyone swept away crossing stepping stones over the River Hodder – hopefully we should get some pictures up soon to prove it. However, we found that A is such a southerner that going that far north makes her get really ill, and she had to go back! Never mind, try and acclimatise yourself next time and you should be OK!

We’ve enjoyed trying out different pubs in Chester while the usual venue was being refurbished and have had some successful club nights at our different venues. It is now open again, so we’re back there through September. As you might have heard, we’re contemplating whether we want to stay at there. It’s got very good facilities for the club – the seating means we can almost always gather together comfortably in a group, no matter how many of us are there; there’s no loud music stopping us talking; and of course, we get the upstairs room for our AGM. However, it has seemed a little run down recently, so we are considering whether we should use one of the pubs we visited in August as a regular club night venue. September gives us a chance to try it out again and we can then discuss matters at the next committee meeting, but if you’ve got an opinion, then let me know!

I’ve announced over email recently that we’d like to encourage all members to take more part in the varied events put on by other members in the club. We always say that it’s the events people put on that make this club; but it’s people choosing to come on them that makes the events! Sometimes it can be easy to just receive a bulletin and not really take much notice of what’s going on in the club, so you can miss out on something fun you could be doing with us. We’ve decided to make the first Wednesday pub meet of every month New Bulletin Night. The new bulletin will be out with all the events in the new month, so it’s a great chance to find out what upcoming events might interest you. So if you want to find out more about what’s going on then come along; and if you’ve put an event in the bulletin then come and tell us all more about it and encourage people to do it! If you can’t make the first Wednesday and you’d still like your event promoting, let the committee know and we’ll do what we can. We’d also like your feedback as to the sort of events we should look to do – if you think you’d like there to be more events of a certain type, then again, let us know.

A

A big thank you goes out to Emma who organised a weekend away in Anglesey and managed to pick a weekend that was perfect with wall to wall sunshine for the whole time.

We all arrived on Friday night and relaxed after a hard week at work and we were all up ready and raring to go on the Saturday. Trustworthy Graham took the lead and directed us on a scenic walk along the coastal path. One group took the easy shorter option via the pub and the more adventerous continued. We all then met on the beach and the brave ( or dare I say stupid ) ones managed to go swimming in the ice cold sea. All I can say is that Graham did a very good impression of Daniel Craig!!!

The evening was spent recovering from our day with fish and chips and a bit of drink. Again no rest for the wicked as Sunday we divided up into 2 groups and some ventured off to Aberfraw to catch some rays and exercise those legs and then some got into their kayaks to see the delights of Anglesey coastline from a different angle. Hopefully everyone who went will say that they had a fab time and now we all know who William Booth is! Do you?

(There are more photos in the members area.)

Thanks to Aidan for organising the canoe trip, there are some photos in the members area now for those who want to see them

I have also shared my photos from Tuesday of the cycle race around Chester so check those out too.

If you have any more photos for me please let me know and I’ll share those with everyone else.

I’ve also added a Tag Cloud: What do you think?

William

Thanks to Mark for organising this, photos are up in the members area for you all:

Did anyone get a photo of the fish and chip supper?

Next stop canoeing at Symonds Yat next weekend!