Sunday 5 December 2010

Festive Bracknell

With the sky still blue and sun still shining the temperature had risen to a balmy 4°C so it seemed rude not to head over to Bracknell and catch up with some friends for some festive snacks. Rolling into the carpark in the toasty warm Passat we headed for the grub and spied this amazing piece of art, too impressive to eat until Babs finally broke it up.

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We hadn’t decorated the car, neither of us had a santa hat on but it didn’t matter as Lily diverted all attention away with her super cute Elf outfit.

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There was a good selection of Dubs out in the cold, on the chunky side of the carpark Pete and Gren took up more parking spaces than most.

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While Mandi & Dave showed off their shiny Split Crewie, jealous, me?

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Taking shelter in the Gipsy, Kim and Lily had lunch.

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Somebody took the time to decorate their van.

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Having nattered to some friends we hadn’t seen for ages the sun was going down and the temperature with it so we loaded up and headed home, a generous slab of gingerbread camper in hand.

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Theres a few more photos here

Steve.

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Reading Toy Run

Christmas is all about traditions, for the last few years we’ve wandered up the road on the first Sunday of December to watch the start of the Reading Toy Run, now in its 25th year it began with a small group of bikers taking toys to a charity school in Wokingham and has grown. Despite the best efforts of the weather throwing down snow and then ice in the week leading up to the event, somebody must have been looking down as Sunday dawned dry but overcast until the bikers started to arrive when the sky turned bright blue and the sun shone.

Following a breakfast date with Steve and Izzy we headed over to watch them arrive and park up, the organisers were expecting around 2000 bikes and trikes to turn out and they weren’t wrong. All sizes and shapes of superbike, cruisers, scooters and tourers rolled in, lots decorated for the festive season.

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I was pretty impressed when this bike appeared with a small decorated tree on the back…..

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however the rider was soundly beaten by this massive real tree strapped onto a bike that rolled in a few minutes later!

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My favourite from last year the KawaRudolf complete with Santa rider was a later arrival.

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With a constant stream of bikes coming in we made our escape before the roads were shut for the convoy. Later in the afternoon we got a few text updates from our friend Paul who was watching the arrivals at the school.

Once more the generosity of the biker community gave me goosebumps. For more photos from a brilliant morning have a look here

Steve.

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