3 Dec 2005, Wellington Christmas Ride

**Ms Piggy** · 29th November 2005, 21:22

Errrrr....ummmm, as long as 1 of us know where he lives.

**James Deuce** · 29th November 2005, 21:30

Originally Posted by Celtic_Sea_lily

Errrrr....ummmm, as long as 1 of us know where he lives.

oIl B dEre. Oi knNoWs de WAy oI do3s.

**Ms Piggy** · 30th November 2005, 07:09

Originally Posted by Jim2

oIl B dEre. Oi knNoWs de WAy oI do3s.

Phew! Lucky some responsible is coming...as well as you Jim (mwah hah hah - oh I am sooooo funny my sides hurt, ouch, oouch, eaach.).

**F5 Dave** · 30th November 2005, 08:34

Originally Posted by phoenixgtr

Lets hope that good weather arrives on time

Oops

Peaked too soon

Think holding thoughts.

**sels1** · 30th November 2005, 20:39

Originally Posted by the yoshie

Save me some cake. PLEASE

dont be late.......I like cake.......

**phoenixgtr** · 30th November 2005, 20:47

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Oops

Peaked too soon

Think holding thoughts.

Hold weather, HOLD!! You can last!!

**robbie** · 30th November 2005, 20:54

hi folks, am keen on the ride if i can make it. Where is Paul's place ? assuming this is the start point and what time ? am from Otaki. cheers Robbie

**Ms Piggy** · 30th November 2005, 21:40

Originally Posted by robbie

? assuming this is the start point and what time ? am from Otaki. cheers Robbie

Meet: Top of the Rimutakas 2.00pm

Ride & Destination: Paul in NZ's place (Raumati) via the Paekakariki Hill Rd for coffee & Xmas cake.

**skelstar** · 30th November 2005, 21:51

Originally Posted by robbie

hi folks, am keen on the ride if i can make it. Where is Paul's place ? assuming this is the start point and what time ? am from Otaki. cheers Robbie

Be good to have you along mate. Always good to have new KBers.

**badlieutenant** · 30th November 2005, 23:43

hmmmm cake (see sig)
hope to be there

**bungbung** · 1st December 2005, 09:56

What time is cake?

I can't ride at the moment (can't walk either) but I'll encourage Mrs Bung to drive me up the line to say hi and whatnot.

**GSVR** · 1st December 2005, 18:15

Hoping to do the cake run sleep on Paul NZeds front lawn then get up and do the Vic ride and BBQ on Sunday. Hope its not to wet this weekend otherwise I'll have to do plan B (drive the van down).

Haven't asked Paul about this yet but if I brought down a few old vynil records, cake forks or something he may agree to it. His record player probably doesn't play 78s anyway and he probably doesn't like listening to Moreschi.

**Paul in NZ** · 2nd December 2005, 10:35

Just to clarify...

The idea of a repeat of last years monster BBQ or another similar event was floated earlier (several times). There was limited interest so it was scaled back and the kind respondents have been pm'd re a smaller bbq type function after the coffee cake type thing.

Please do not be offended if you were not pm'd, if you desperately want to burn a sausage afterwards with us, you are more than welcome BUT this will not be the same open house deal as last year. There was not enough support for a repeat.

To clarify, the deal is:

We meet at the car park top of the Rimutaka hill at 2pm!

Catch up for 20 mins or so and then ride down the hill, over Haywards and the paekakareki Hill road to our place in Raumati South. There will be enough people there that know the way, if you are not sure, please ask.

if you get lost, my cell is 027 249 9959

I assume that we will be at our place around 3:45 to 4:15pm. We will provide coffee and xmas cake.

Afterwards, we will have a very (very) simple bbq. This is a byo bbq which is a pain on a bike so lets keep it simple.

We will not be going all night. It's a very busy time of the year and Vicki and I have obligations on sunday for a charitable organisation. We need to be functioning and relatively coherent! (well no worse than usual)

Hope to see you there!

Paul N

Notes: (this is NOT a list of orders or conditions, just stuff you might like to know about us if you have never been before)

You are welcome to bring you kids but please remember, we have a peculiar dog that is not overly fond of them or old men in hats (no we can't figure it out either) She is fine if you leave her alone, she is old and has a sore back where she got run over by a drunk in a 4WD! Her tail does not work!

Please look out for your children, ours have long since left home and our place is definately no longer kid safe. We have some toys to amuse them (they can put my triumph engine together) and plenty of space for them to play in.

Please remember that this is our house. We like our house... We are not fussy people but neither are we wealthy enough to replace windows and carpets after every bbq. We understand accidents.... We don't understand carelessness... (does that sound fair?)

Please don't trash our garden. It's big and built to be played in and explored by kids but not trampled and uprooted.

Garry - If one of the kids is away that night we will have a spare bed or will make one up for you in the lounge!

General:

In all likelyhood this is my last ever post on KB and I have logged on specifically to check this thread and make this post re the day. I didn't intend to do this but temptation was too much and I want to avoid akward questions tomorrow. I will not be answering pm's, emails, discussing it etc or anything else but I will check this post today and tomorrow. I have said my goodbyes to some of you and doubtless missed a hell of a lot of the rest of you. Sorry about that, it was not intentional, it just became an impossible task!

There is no anger in my heart over this decision, just sadness and a great relief.

FINALLY! Vicki and I wish you and yours ALL a very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year. We are sure we will see you on the road sometime and around the usual traps.