Christmas virtual pub meet

[KartikeyaL]

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

[plj]

Ian,

Thank you for inviting me to the virtual pub meet.
Must confess have only just returned from my actual Christmas pub meet where I catch up with the ever diminishing number of friends.
I now do this on the 23rd as Christmas eve can get too involved and memories of trying to assemble childrens bikes at 3 a.m. Christmas morning are still painful!!
Having tried a pint of Harveys (of Lewes, you must remember it from your time in E. Sussex) best bitter, then followed by the same brewery's "Old", I moved on to Sharp's Doom Bar, beer not pub, then finished with something, I think, called Flying Scotsman, washed down with some 15 year old Bushmills, Whiskey with an "e".
Having tottered home I can now offer you and all our members a 12 year old Glenlivet, Laphroig, Tanglefoot, Bombardier, or Theakstons "Old Peculiar", if I hear Minors outside I think I will hide under the bed!!

Merry christmas to all and I look forward to sharing a real drink with you all at Prescott, Teesdale (hopefully) plus wherever I can drag my long suffering, but supportive wife.

Regards,

Philip

[Eberhard]

Happy chrismas and a wonderful new Minor-year!
Especially for you my co-worker and me created a small videoclip! (Flash must be installed)

Lieben Gruß aus Deutschland

Eberhard & Gudrun

[Ian Grace]

Philip,

I have managed to get Bateman's, Fullers, Morland (Hen's Tooth), St. Peters, Sam Smiths and Wells Bombardier here for Christmas, plus a good selection of single malts. Laphroaig is one of my favourites, but I have recently tried other Islay malts - Lagavulin and Ardbeg - their distilleries are a stone's throw from Laphroaig, and both are outstanding. Let's see what else Santa brings...

Plus we have some Veuve Cliquot lined up for tonight - because we finally sold our house in Michigan this morning. After three years of paying two mortgages, what better Christmas present?

Cheers!

Ian

[Ian Grace]

Eberhard und Gudrun,

Wir wunschen Sie ein frohes Weihnachten und eine gutes neues Jahr.

Kein Gluhwein oder Weihnachtsmarkts hier - shade! Aber auch kein Schnee!

Bis Prescott und den Noden Wochenende nachstes Juli,

Ian und Jayne

[Ian Grace]

This was winter in Michigan - keeps the beer cool! I can't believe we actually survived ten winters there, with temperatures below freezing for weeks on end and down below zero Fahrenheit frequently. The coldest I saw on the car's temp. gauge one morning was minus 11F - that's about corblimey cold.

[Simon]

Happy Christmas everybody and a trouble free motoring year for 2012.

Simon

[halbe]

Merry christmas and all the best for 2012

The Tjepkema family

[garagiste]

Surprise, surprise Christmas Day and there's nobody here. They must all be in their garages/workshops preparing their cars for 2012!

Hope that it is a good year and look forward to meeting other members at various meetings, especially Pre-war Prescott.

Must get back to reaming some bushes.

All the best for 2012.

M type OG2438.

[Ian Grace]

Just missed you - was busy opening this little lot. It was a very good Christmas morning.

[Eberhard]

B&B** is for sleeping?


















** Bed & Breakfast

[Ronald]

I spent a little while today with MT running, i have tried to carry on dad's tradition of getting every car that we own that will run, running......... so MT got a through warm through........... and i nearly died from CO poisoning.........!

Hope everyone had a good day!!

[Ian Grace]

Ronald, ready for the Boxing Night Informal then...?! Now that Bill Body is no longer with us, we really should resurrect this in one form or another in his memory. I think we have four current members who participated in the original runs in the early sixties - and all four still have their cars from those days.

Eberhard - the B&B is Jayne's - too sweet for me!

[Ronald]

Ian, Mum's curious as to who the 'four' might be.......... and as for a run on boxing day, it does sound like a good idea, however, i have become a fair weather vintage motorist,... i did a run on new yrs day last yr, only local but about 40 miles.... it was bitterly cold, and i vowed never again..... mind you, i should have put the hood up really......... i just prefer to drive MT in the open air......!

[Eberhard]

So this was christmas and a happy new year...

For this year I told my wife, she would get a great present. Inquiring as women are she always was asking for. "Is it a trailer for my bike?" My mouth was closed...

Is that a trailer???





Today my son visited us with his family. Maybe that there were great twin-musicians born: