The 13th is OK for me.

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"This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly."

Yup, 13th sounds good for me too, though, I usually can't tell what I'm doing till a few days before, but i'll start looking into transport and the like.



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13th sounds good to me!

The Dodo came up with some places to meet but his directions were useless so I got the map out and suggest the Holiday Inn at junction 15 of the M4. Okay so not glamourous, but has a reception area/bar where we could meet up prior to having lunch in a more 'pub' style environment. Which I am looking for and will report back on.

Okay - found two pubs on the net which sound nice - The Blowing Stone Inn at Kingston Lisle or The White Horse at Woolstone. Both villages are on or just off the B4507 which runs right past the White Horse itself. No Cheshire Cats I'm afraid.

From the M4, take Junction 15 and at first roundabout take north-north-east exit and head towards Wanborough/Hinton Parva/Ashbury (road unnamed) but this then crosses the B4000 and becomes the B4507

Or we could take picnics and pool resources.

Ant sandwiches - lovely!

If nobody knows enough about the local pubs to give an opinion on their value as food sources then I'd prefer to take picnic stuff (but no SMUGGLED cheese, OK? :-)

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"This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly."

I'm just wondering if it's going to be practical to come down on the train if we're supposed to be meeting at a motorway service station. Anyone have any thoughts on this?



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Sarah

The Holiday Inn isn't a motorway service station - I deliberately avoided suggesting that because a lot of them don't like cars/people hanging about but if you let us know where the trains take you to - eg Swindon, Basingstoke, Oxford - then someone can always pick you up.

I've heard that the Blowing Stone does decent food, and real ales for anyone who's not driving. If its any help I can make a visit to check it out next weekend and report back on the quality of the food? Its a hard job I know.... :)

Have to say I'm not much of a picnic person, usually I run at the first sign of wasps but ants I can deal with!

Aunty Sassy - Thank you for checking out all this, you must be really practised at organising!! Its definitely a good idea to have pick ups for people because it looks like there are NO buses that go near White Horse at all on a Sunday.

Extensive research shows that Uffington only has three buses a week. None of which are at weekends. I'm in the wrong business; public transport is a dying industry.



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Don't get me started on rural transport policies, I can froth at the mouth about them! In a ladylike way of course :)

Quite probably Rhys (my bf, he should be turning up round here at some point, be nice to him) & I will come. Though, if it's the 13th, we might have to be back in Sheffield so I don't know (might be going to whitby with friends). I was all ready to say we'd go but now I don't know if we can :(

We'd be going from Cardiff so probably going to Swindon if we did go anyway.

I don't know, the other thing has confused me now.

Thanks for the offer of a pick-up! Now to get on to Skiffle and see what we need to arrange from this end (yoo hoo, Skiffle, are you around today?)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

I am, thank you. Just having a rather lazy day after a busy weekend. I was shattered when I got home yesterday and collapsed on the bed to sleep for an hour or so, while PSD amused himself reading the Encyclopedia of Cult Children's Televsion.
I've hung my new clock - made from a 7" single of All You Need Is Love - in the living room. That may be the most useful thing I've done today, although I suppose I could count reading the 3 Time-Life books on the Wild West that I bought in Haworth as research.

Oooh ... the Encyclopaedia of Cult Children's TV ... *want* .....



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It's got Noggin the Nog in it - brilliant!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

*waiting to see who's going to make the first joke about Noggin the Nog*
*any bets on PSD or will he defy expectations and refrain ? Or double-bluff us and ask the question anyway ?*

There are jokes about Noggin the Nog? What could they possibly be?
<deluded naivety> Apologies for the "does anyone remember.." but does anyone remember a cartoon (from the 70's?) featuring a flying egg, possibly called 'Ovid'. Did I dream this, because I can't remember anything else about it, apart from it was really strange.

Hi to Dell and Rhys - If you can't make it this time I'm sure there'll be another chance to do a White Horse visit.

It was called 'Ludwig'. A top cartoon. He had all kinds of useful stuff and would produce equipment to build a space rocket, rescue small children from burning buildings or whatever the plot required. (I assume that's the one you mean.)

Rob, that's it! You're a genius, thank you. I've been trying to convince friends and family for years that I didn't imagine it.