Good Afternoon all my fellow springboks!

Everybody happily recovered from the shock of losing an hours sleep yet? 

Well I don’t know about you but I’m exhausted just hearing about the weekend away at Brean!  Pirate parties, drinking, bands, Cheddar And Scrumpy Experience, things-you-never-needed-to know rude quiz (way to go big sis!), drinking, films, another quiz, more drinking, parties, even more drinking, caravan parties and I think a little more drinking.  Did anyone sleep?  We all need a rest after hearing about it!

Nidz – that reminds me.  Biggles has passed me your jumper that you left behind at Brean.  If you let me know when you’re next planning on coming along I’ll do my best to make sure it’s there waiting for you!

So what action packed events do we have coming up? 

Well, this Saturday SF-Inn (& SHQ-Inn) will play venue to our “Back to the Future” DVD trilogy night.  A chance for us to sit back, relax, eat lots of yummy food and indulge in some absolutely classic movie gold!  What’s that?  Not sure you can handle it?  You’re not “Chicken” are you?!  Well in that case, you’d better turn up at SF-Inn (67 Pettinger Gardens, SO17 2WL) at 5pm this Saturday with some food, some drink and a firm cushion.  Give our host Kirtsy a ring (07919 286 692) to let her know you’ll be coming along to prove that you’re not chicken…

Also discussed in the pub last night was the chance to spice up DVD night, and invoke a colour theme!  We choose a colour that really captures the essence of the film and you have to come dressed in an item of that colour.  Suggestions put forward for this weekend were silver, red and blue.  As you can tell, we had a bit of trouble on this one, so we’ll settle for you turning up fully clothed! 

On Sunday, our very own Biggles will be standing for the role of Area Development Officer at the Area meeting, so good luck to him!  Kirtsy will also be going along to the meeting and will no doubt provide some good moral support!

Tim is hosting a Murder Mystery evening on Saturday 7th April!  It will cost £8 pp which includes the game and some lovely food to munch on whilst pondering “who dunnit?!”  Give Tim a yell or a scream (its_me_hurray@...) to let him know you’ll be there! 

A couple of up-coming events to watch out for:

The go-karting has been pushed back a few weeks but we have not set a date yet or picked a venue.  GDB and myself will be picking a date and location very soon so if you want to sway us towards your personal preference, bribes of cookies, chocolate, alcohol, jewellery and cash will be considered.  We really need to get an idea of the level of interest so please hit reply and let me know you’re up for it!  Prices range from around £30 up to £50 depending on the venue (all are reasonably close), type of event and number of people we get going so please let us know whether you’re up for smaller and cheaper or bigger and a bit more pricey and we’ll see what we can do!

Amanda – On a similar theme, there’s still one skid mark left – I spotted it last night!  Also, I hope you got on ok with the NUHC possy – we’re a cool crew!  ;)

Finally, rumours abound that National Paintball is coming up soon.  This will be held on Saturday 26^th May and includes a day’s paintballing and disco in the evening.  It’s being held in Abridge, Essex and prices are £40 for painball & disco, or £5 for just the disco!  Publicity is being rattled off the press at the moment and should be available soon.  

Right, I’m off to get some lunch.  It’s Thursday Roast day!

Princess Phil