Happy NEW YEAR! .....And welcome 2012. The dawn of a brand new season, a year we your committee hope will be even greater than the previous years. We know how you lot work hard at this great hobby of ours, be it in the preparation of your beloved motors, or just enjoying the social side of the club. That’s why we strive to maintain the NO BOLLITICS rule, God knows as I've always said "there’s enough crap in our lives with work and sometimes home, we do not need it in our HOBBY”. The grey suits are always coming up with ways to screw us down, be it through our pockets or with green issues.
On April 15th one hundred years ago RMS TITANIC hit an iceberg. We all know what happened on that fateful night, but did you know that there is an iceberg season every year, when during the spring the newly broken off bergs flow south. Shipping has always kept track and documented these flows, it just happened the TITANIC sailed head long into an unusually high number of icebergs one hundred years ago; it must have been down to the global warming back then.....all those gas guzzling modal T’s??? Did you know two other boats sank just 17days earlier? Yes folks, two boats sank with all hands. Both Oxford and Cambridge crews had that sinking feeling, whether there were icebergs on the Thames that year was not reported, but oxford went on to win the race two days later on April 1st 1912. 19 days later on the 20th Bram Stoker died; the author who wrote about an aristocratic blood sucker who bled the innocent to death. Yes folks, that was one hundred years ago, global warming and a nation being bled dry. It’s a good job we don’t have that sort of thing going on these days.........
Can you tell I've not spent as much time in the garage as I should of over the holidays. As some of you know, my Christmas present arrived in October and thanks to the pen pushers, no documents till November keeping me off the road. As frustrating as it was, it did give me time to make sure the Ranchero was thoroughly waxoyled and prepared for this new season, kicking off with January's Krispy Kreme meet, and hopefully as many events as I can fit into the ever growing show season. I know Glen and Bev will sure make us all welcome for our Lakes weekend in June, and the Jackson clan surpass themselves every year with Americana International setting the standard for any show organiser to aspire to. So come on, shake off those winter blues, let’s all go for a cruise. Hang the garlic from the mirror and watch out for icebergs............
Here's to a great year with great friends. Graeme S.
