October Unofficial

I'll look into it. Cheque in post, and thanks for doing what you're doing.

On or around Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:05:37 +0100, steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

hehe

Mind, a well sorted off-road place generally has various grades of "off-road".

On or around Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:46:14 +0100, Steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

apart from being rather a long way up country, the bit around teifi pools is nice. I guess we could convoy up that way and back down again - depends what people want. Dunno much about the laning scene south of Carmarthen though, either whether there are many lanes or what the local feeling is like.

midwales gets overused by the organised laning people and by such as LRO and other magazines, which tends to annoy the locals, even when they behave - people runnning 12-vehicle convoys and suchlike don't help.

so Austin Shackles was, like...

According to Austin, our native guide, "greenlaning" is rather

Mind, there are a lot of nice *roads* up around the Preselis and eastwards if people just wanted a scenic trip. Some of these roads almost qualify as green lanes - miles from anywhere, good views, mostly grass/rubble surface etc :-)

I did wonder if we couldn't get some GOOD green lane publicity by using

Steve

Anyone else seen that 109 on ebay with the modified tipper trailer Sankey.

There's a passable country pub /caravan place at Trefach, where we have been on astronomy events in the past. The folks there are really nice and friendly, and they do good food too, its near Macnyllldu (or something), which is a shortish trot out of Carmarthen, and right on the way to the Presellis.

so steve Taylor was, like...

Mynachlogddu, close to Maenclochog, AKA "Mine Chocolate Log" to non-Welsh-speaking locals. If you go on a "scenic run", you'll see it all.

I think this sort of plan is best run by GLASS before going any further.

Indeed. Where is Simon tonight ?

Steve

Mudplugging!

-- Subaru WRX (Annabel)

Landrover 110 County Station Wagon (Tyson)

'"Say hello to my little friend"

A quick fire engine, pah ridiculous ;o)

Prolly doing some extreme washing-up - or otherwise keeping Dawn sweet prior to their journey oop-norf on Saturday!

GLASS have an area rep there though, check the website.

Now when I lived in Bricks-Town, I knew fire engines sooo fast that they'd get there before the fire started... ;-)

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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:57:45 +0100, steve Taylor scribbled the following nonsense:

Was down the local enjoying a very blue steak.

Some repair work sounds like an excellent idea! One problem though, I am not allowed to cancal my holiday to crete in favour of the unofficial....... bah humbug

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:55:36 +0100, Mother scribbled the following nonsense:

Yes, got to keep her sweet so I can part with some money.....

I COULD firm this up into an activity for Sunday Lunch or something. What does the team think ?

Steve

On or around Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:40:40 +0100, Steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

you'd need a fleet of 101 tippers... part of the problem is cost: hardcore, to the council, is no doubt cheap but getting it to where it's needed is difficult and expensive. Looking at the situation around here, there's not enough maintenance or money spent on the main roads, never mind green lanes. Taking the much-discussed (by some) Brynglas trail, now the subject of an 18 month TRO - the amount of hardcore required is measured in at least 10s of lorries, I reckon, to get it back to a state where you can just drive it - bearing in mind that 10T of hardcore on a lorry looks big, but only until you start tipping it in a big hole, then it all disappears - there are holes on that one trail that would take more than one 10T load to fill. Then it's got to be spread and compacted a bit if it's to be of any use.

's no wonder, really, that they close things instead.

If maintenance is done a bit at a time, as is practiced by some of the clubs in some areas, it's much easier, of course.