Some social stuff it would be nice to get together for if anyone is interested 🙂
May 8th/9th/10th
It’s the Sustainability Centre’s Green Fair on Sunday 10th May. Last year we camped there Friday and Saturday night and packed up Sunday evening after the fair. I’ve provisionally booked to do the same this year.
It doesn’t cost anything to book although I suspect they will be fairly limited on spaces and camping is cheap there. Been as you are on the site already you then don’t pay to get into the fair either.
Weather permitting – and if it’s rubbish we won’t bother doing it – it is a lovely weekend :).
July 6th – 12th ish
We’re planning on camping on Shell Island for the week with a day trip to CAT which is an hour’s drive away. Shell Island isn’t bookable so no cost involved in planning to go but if you want to join us for CAT then I need to try and gather numbers to organise a group booking and find out about discounts.
July 24th, 25th & 26th
Kelmark Festival of History is the weekend of 26th/26th. We’ll plan to stay at Wicksteed again and do Wicksteed itself on the Friday as we did last year. I need to swap that Saturday with someone at work but as soon as I’ve got that confirmed I will probably book the campsite as last year it got filled up.
September 7th-13th
We’re planning, again weather permitting, to go to the Sustainability Centre for the week. I’ll do another trip to Butser and possibly the campcrafts if I can get it organised properly in time. Camping at the centre doesn’t need to be paid for in advance so will be a bit weather permitting but Butser is within an hour from us so if anyone is wobbling about booking that we are more than happy to have house guests if we don’t camp for that week and do Butser from here instead.
30th November – 4th December
Christmas at Helmsley? I’ve not checked price or availability at Helmsley but you can’t book without deposit anyway and if Helmsley’s not available then I’d find a different hostel for that week. We will need to get deposits (tenner a head should be fine) in for that asap really to make sure we have that secured although balance won’t be due until much later in the year (October time). Em – are you happy to be finance manager?
Other stuff
I’m planning a day trip to the British Wildlife Centre where we had a fab day out last year. They are open to school / educational groups during term time where you book the whole place. The ‘keepers’ are knowledgable, interested and full of facts and it’s a fab place to pretty much guarantee a closeup look at loads of UK animals you don’t always see in the wild. I think it is near enough for some of you to come to a day trip for and we would always be happy for houseguests – it’s about an hour from us. I’ve not offered it on the local list yet so we could try and fill it ourselves – minimum number is 20, maximum 90 and price is £5 per person.
It would be from 10am-2pm and I’d want to arrange it on a Monday, Thursday or Friday probably, Wednesday at a push (thinking of Helen?). As it outside I was thinking March or poss April.
Anyone interested?
would be interested in the Wildlife centre if we could come and stay :O)
Shell Island sounds nice esp as would be at M’s birthday. Might try and make it there. Would be nice for him.
Yes to all of it for C&I. M will do Shell island and sustainability camps.
Kelmarsh is under discussion. Will probably do as day trip.
think we will prob be a yes for may sustainablity, kelmarsh and helmsely.
bless for thinking of me!
will see what chris thinks of the other butser camp, as it looked fun last year
Yes probably to September camp and yes def to Helmsley.
May or may not join you for Shell Island will depend on baby and finances at the time.
Yes of course am happy to be finance manager 🙂
Wish we could do the green fair weekend too, but think not huh!
Def can’t do Kelmarsh 🙁
Will probably be interested in September camp, but I’m having trouble thinking about February, let alone September.
And probably Helmsley, but that’s even further away. Sorry to be useless.
I’m not planning *anything* this year to avoid further disaster befalling us.
Hi there
We’d like to join you for the September Butser – and very keen on British Wildlife Centre visit. Might do Kelmarsh, so would see you there, but probably wouldn’t be camping.
Ta!
does anyone down your way ever organise stuff at Herstmonceux Castle as it’s on my list of places we want to go to – if not I may tag it onto being down for the Wildlife visit.
There was a recent trip to the Science centre at Herstmonceux which we missed as I was working. If enough people were up for that it might be worth doing a trip there too – castle and science centre together although castle is closed til April.
it’s the science centre I’m particularly interested in. I’ve heard it’s really good.
I’m really, really, really, really, really sorry but we cannot now do the May Sustainability Camp. We can’t find any better way of getting a 2 week family holiday and it was pull out of that or Shell Island so we decided to pull out of the May camp.
Hisnibs not being able to go away at all in either June or September, combined with our desire to avoid the school hols, meant we were left with few available dates.
Sorry again.
have now remembered to add this blog to my rss. Have no idea what we can do this year as I won’t have a car after February. Def want to do a fair bit of camping, so will have to chat with Tim.