Event
Report
The
Ravensworth Run & BBQ
Report
by Dave Simpson
An
alternative heading for this report could well be The Ravensworth Riot as it
turned out to be quite a riotous evening / weekend, I should say here that
if you missed this one you missed a great afternoon run followed by a BBQ of
unrivalled proportions with loads of wine & ale.
However
first things first, several of us met and departed to the residence of Steve
& Dot Wardle at Ravensworth to meet up with the rest of the company who
had arrived earlier to do some silly stuff with two whee led
machines.
Suffice
it to say that its quite difficult to fall off a classic car, not so a motor
bike!
Take
advice Bry, four wheels are better than two.
This
was taken just before the ground came rushing up to meet me, Bry !
At
the farm we met up with some other people from the MX5 Owners club who
accompanied us around an excellent route taking in the army ranges above
Richmond and Catterick. A midway pit stop was arranged at the pub in
Barningham and if you haven’t visited this watering hole take my advice
and have a ride up there, it’s an absolute time warp there can’t be many
pubs left in England like this place especially with a landlord like this
one. We had been tasked by the route organizer, one Mr. Steve (you will
have a good time) Baker, to collect items of country life on the way round
and one was an unusual item from the pub, to find out go there and ask Neil.
The
route then took us over Stang and down into Arkengarthdale across into
Swaledale and Reeth and back via Richmond to Ravensworth. I thought that I
new most of the minor roads and tracks over there but fiendish Steve found
some I’d never been on before.
A
very enjoyable run coupled with the challenge of finding items like wool
from a sheep, or a whole sheep, a birds feather, or a bird, which ever took
your fancy, I believe a certain member produced most of one or as much as
could be recovered from the tarmac ugh!!
The
cars were then parked and some me mbers
who intended to take full advantage of the excellent hospitality provided by
Steve & Dot pitched tents with the full intention of not leaving until
well after sun up, in fact it was nearly that when the tents were used for
recovering, nuff said.
Silly
games came to the fore as the night wore on which got sillier as the wine
was consumed I will say no more.
Thanks
must be recorded for a great day & evening to both Steve’s and
Dot very ably assisted by Val.
Noises
have been heard about doing it again next year, oh no!,
I
can hardly wait !
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