Saturday 19 March 2011

Dubaid "Help for Heroes"

As I chipped the ice off the Passat this morning I decided it was a very good decision not to camp out at Castle Combe in March. As we arrived on site at Dubaid and heard the tales of –6°C over night, my choice was further cemented! Organised in double quick time following a discussion on VZi about a way to pay our respects to Wootton Basset and its residents for every time they have lined the streets to honour repatriated troops. The idea of a cruise of Dubs came about and with a start point needed the race track grounds at Castle Combe were eventually chosen, to give everyone something to do before Sundays cruise a massive camp out, show’n’shine and trader line up was arranged for the day and bands for the evenings. From small acorns and all that. Having been a bit out of the loop we parked up in the day visitors area and walked round to where a few LTVers had made camp, it was like old times again.

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We borrowed a chair and settled down for lunch as Lily got to meet lots of new friends and have more cuddles than she knew what to do with.

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The drink was already flowing and the dancing had started.

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After lunch we headed off to check out the show.

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There was a sizeable show’n’shine to keep us entertained with such oddities as this roof chopped Bay.

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It wasn’t just air-cooled cars on show, the water pumpers had a good turnout too.

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As we circled the campsite we spied a frazzled Keebs in full on organiser mode, relieving him of some cider we promised to get along to the charity auction later in the afternoon and bid.

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Back on camp more people had arrived and chatted for a while soaking up the sunshine and brilliant blue skies.

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Before the gang headed for the auction tent, wallets bulging and ready to spend.

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Inside Keebs held court with his finest “I’m a little teapot” impression.

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As the lots appeared the bidding was a little slow, but Pete heckled and jeered until the cash began to flow, earlier in the day we had spied a rather nice clock built from an old chrome hubcap. It was suddenly held aloft and with approval from Lily I entered a mini bidding war settling on £45 in aid of “Help for Heroes”

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With most of the lots gone and the rest heading for eBay, we decided to head home, the sun was going down and it was getting chilly, as ever it took us another hour to say goodbye before pointing the toasty warm Passat Eastwards. It was great to catch up with the old crowd again, and to introduce Lily to her first proper Volkswagen show, she was asleep before she got in the car.

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The rest of the photos are here. And you can find out more about the show here

Steve.

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