Well another non-flying day at North Hill today, due to the rubbish weather and the airfield remaining quite waterlogged. That said, we did notice that Ian managed to find a couple of dry spots to get Sierra Charlie off the ground for a quick fly down to the Jurassic Coast. So it turned out to be another day of a few people doing some jobs around the club.
Paul Medlock fitted a new heater in the glider workshop, Nick Jones was working on the Eurofox dolly, Sally and Dan Hender (Onions) were preparing food for the evenings entertainment. Later in the day Sally’s friend Bev arrived as planned, with the Kenniford Farm sausages for the hotdogs. Thankfully she also cooked them! (We know what Sally’s cooking is like).
Just before it got too dark, Dan and I went out and set up the fireworks that everyone was coming to see. We set up towards the East end (not so far East that we would upset the horses) but, unfortunately it was not possible to go to the West end where the bonfire should have been, due to the state of the field, (so no hedgehogs were harmed).
Just before 5pm club members, friends and families all started arriving. By 6pm when the food was ready there was around 70 people in and around the clubhouse, so Sally had a captive audience to sell hotdogs, doughnuts, toffeeapples (thanks Jane) and drinks. She even bought sparklers to sell to the kids (small and big)! Hopefully we will have raised a few more pounds for the DSGC Charitable Trust. It was really great to see so many people at the club for a social event. Just eating, drinking and chatting. (And kids waving their sparklers around).
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| Watching the Fireworks from outside the clubhouse (Nick Jones) |
At 7:15pm the first rocket was launched, then we were off, with me and Dan lighting the various rockets and fireworks and Gordon directing the proceedings.
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| Great displays (Nick Jones) |
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| Toffeeapples going well (Nick Jones) |
(ed: ) Big Thanks..........
To Sally, Bev & Dan, great job in the kitchen (it looked a bit busy there fore a while)!
To those who came and enjoyed the food and entertainment, thanks for making it a great success.
To Nick Jones and Rob Hender, a massive thanks for sponsoring the fireworks, and Jane for the toffeeapples
To Sonic Fireworks at Uffculme, thanks for supplying great fireworks and your great advice.
And to those who couldn’t make it, unfortunately, you missed a good show.
Profit to DSGC Charitable Trust £273.19 - Thanks everyone
If you enjoyed the evening and missed out on the donation box for the DSGC Charitable Trust - it's not too late, please see the link on the website for all the details. (For the second year running, the DSGC Charitable Trust has paid the annual insurance for the K6 DRE.)
