Date : Tuesday 19th November
Venue : Farmers Arms car park, St. Johns
Time : 6.30 – 6.45pm
Pace will be social, hope to go for a beer afterwards at the reopened Tynwald Inn.
And
Date : Thursday 21st November
Venue : NSC overflow car park (behind QuarterBridge Pub), Douglas
Time : 6.30 – 6.45pm
Pace will be social.
Helmets, lights compulsory (a working bike would help)
Hope to see some of out on the social ride and trails.
This week, the weather is supposed to pretty bad (according to the weather man).
But lets see what happens….
So how about a couple of social rides.
Date : Tuesday 29th October
Time : 6.45 – 7.00 pm
Venue : Glen Mona pub car park, Glen Mona
Also
Date : Thursday 31st October
Time : 6.45 – 7.00 pm
Venue : Farmer Arms pub car park, St.Johns
If you require a lift, please get in touch, so we can sort something out.
If the weather is as bad as the weather man is making out, a cancellation will be posted on the usual social media.
If I’ve missed anybody of the mailing list, please pass on.
Look forward to hopefully seeing some of you out on the social rides and trails.
Date : Tuesday 22nd October
Time : 6.45 – 7.00pm ( to give people chance to get here )
Venue : Kirk Michael, car park behind old IOM Bank, Station Road, Kirk Michael
And how about,
Date : Thursday 24th October
Time : 6.45 – 7.00pm
Venue : Crosby playing fields, near Ellerslie.
( Tea, Coffee and cake for afterwards at Mrs Coops house )
If the weather is bad, a cancellation notice will be posted on the usually formats etc….
If you require a lift, please get in touch, so we can try and sort something out.
My contact : 481793 or email
Look forward to seeing you out on the social rides.
Firstly a great big well done to a few Loaghtans and a few other who competed in the 1st round of the Winter XC series.
How about a couple of social rides.
Date : Tuesday 15th October 2013
Time : 6.45 – 7.00pm ( to give people time to get there )
Venue : Colby Glen pub car park, Colby
And
Date : Thursday 17th October 2013
Time : 6.45 – 7.00pm
Venue : Cat with no tail pub car park, Douglas
If you require a lift please get in touch, and we’ll see what we can sort out.
If you can think of anybody else, who I might have missed of the mailing list. Let them know.
If the weather is bad, we’ll post a Cancellation by the usual methods.
Look forward to seeing some of you out on the trails.
Date : Tuesday 8th October
Time : 7.00pm
Venue : Cat with no tail, pub car park
I won’t be there on Tuesday, I have a meeting. So hopefully one of the Flock will take on the role of Trail Leader.
Date : Thursday 10th October
Time : 6.45pm
Venue : NSC overflow car park, behind the Quarter Bridge pub
Route : This week we’ll do last Tuesday route in reverse (with may be a bit extra)
Look forward to seeing some of you out on the rides.
If the weather is bad, I’ll get notification out by FB and other means of communications.
………………….Attention all shipping attention all shipping……………………………….
And now time for the Loaghtan Loaded shipping forecast and reports from coastal and inshore stations.
Here is the general synopsis at 0700 GMT. Great conditions – let’s get biking……
And now the area reports:
South Sinbad , Forties – Onchan boating lake mild to even milder. Why bother? GKY.(Gay Kyaking)
Bazzar, Trafalgar – Coming on strong, storm conditions, but fizzling out later into a giggly mess if tickled. Rising.
Hobgoblin, Doombar – outbreaks of wind at times, good, bleedin great!!
Pete Mate, Malew Bight – Warning, just a warning, avoid at all costs.
Dover Sole, Callig, Halibut, Monkfish – Bond rods, regular outbreaks of wind, rain at times, good. Skippy cyclonic. North, South, East and Westerly all at the same time.
Hamish Rockall – occasionally good , sometimes moderate, smooth and slight.
Gadge, Biscuit – light flatulence, some rain, very good. But clearing, will not be seen for a few seasons once clear.
Crabtree, Irish Sea – sod all wind, heavy showers, absolutely incredible big shitter forecast, occasionally squally. Force 9 – Warning.
Bolty, Fair Isle, Cardigan, Pullover – wind south east, rain at times, slightly disappointing. Heavy bling.
Coops, Dogging – Starting out moderate but increasing to force 8 to 10 (after too many!!!) Intermittent but becoming stronger.
Rachel, Bailey – social diaries and cake variable, much time on hands, cyclonic.
And now the reports for lesser important coastal stations:
Kerruish and South East Iceland (best place for him) – wind, North West, 7 miles, one thousand and four, rising slowly. But not as fast as Rachel’s cake mix. Thermal warm spots over Cohnrenny, tyre burning, increasing.
Foxdale, Mid East – KOM’s sparse, as far as the ring road, Six six six, rising slowly. Then fading…ooops sorry we’ve lost communication…..hello???….come in Foxdale….come in…..please report……Sorry listeners we seem to have lost Foxdale……we’ll keep trying…..
And that concludes this morning’s shipping forecast.
