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Firstly we gave a warm welcome to Simon Hickie and his 3.2 Targa, warning him of the interest Paul B will have in his car. Then Geoff briefly shared some info on the recent workers conference and AGM, including a summary of the leavers, and joiners of the clubs board.

Then onto our demanding 2012 events list, forthcoming pub lunch, our concours, as well as R15's and R17's. Our annual BBQ in June.
Then Chris H shared the latest on the F.O.S arrangements, names, times, cars and camping, no not "camp"ing!!!! But we have tent accommodation available for the event.

Concluding with the National event, all on tarmac this year, but no regional stands this year. As the meeting was drawing to a end, Geoff introduced Graham, an amateur photographer, who is prepared to take pictures of our prized car's, and print it for a nominal fee, with a suggested donation of £5 to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.
 

At around 11.45, many members were already at the G.A.Hotel, to share in a chat and coffee before heading of at 12.15 prompt, for the lunch.
Several cars left in convoy, which was our 1st convoy one of 2012, a sight, any Porsche owner would never get bored of.
On route, we took in the exhaust sounds of our cars as we, with windows down, ears primed, drove through the long tunnel........ that's was one sense satisfied, hearing......  now just to please our taste buds . . . . .

Mark was on hand to welcome us, with a welcome drink, also introducing us to Tim and Stevie, Tim, the proud owner of a new 997 Carrera 4 GTS in white.....

What more delights could this function throw up after that!!!!! Well, you wont believe this, but Max Well's turned up, with his mum and dad in toe, at the grand old age of 13 days, even wearing a Porsche top... wow... trump that!!!!

Now, the time had arrived for the 22 & 1/8 of us attending, to be seated in the conservatory and share in each others company while enjoying the lovely food Mark and his team create.As always the foods presentation was top draw, and tasty, with a yum factor of 10....
After our relaxing meals, we decamped to the gardens to enjoy a coffee or tea, extending the time we were sharing, chilling in the glorious sunshine, simply, a perfect day.
 

  Some of the members....

  Max, 13 days old...

  Yummy food being enjoyed . .

Then straight into Ruth's Quiz, a very clever quiz, where we had to guess a hidden phrase or saying from the clues...... we had three clever clogs, Mathew, Karl and Tref on 20/24, after some tough tie breakers, Karl won a bottle of win, Tref 2nd with a yummy box of biscuits.

Then after a bar and loo pit stop, onto the meeting proper, congratulations to Louise M on the HOT NEWS that she, and Gary are to be parents in August....... Wow what a fertile region we are, young ones to take over from us oldies!!! So at least two young potential, PCGB members this year..... WOW.....

Tref mentioned the Porsche factory visit in April,  another detailed insight to 2012's Goodwood FOS, help needed from the Wednesday to the following Monday. Our next event, scenic drive and lunch at Marks Hotel.......

We were also pleased and thankful to P.C.Bournemouth for printing our 2012 flyers, so we can encourage other Porsche owners if we see them while out and about..... GREAT...... So, another fun and rewarding club night......
 

Four Porsche set out from D.F.Club, to meet others for a late breakfast at the "Roadside Cafe BH21 3HA" 01202 849890, all yumming up a FULL ENGLISH while sharing in deep and meaningful chat!!! (ok, car drivel!!) all for just £6.95, and so tasty.....
We were made up to see Robin and Ruth rock up in a silver Cayenne, retuning into the Porsche family, GREAT.......
Then around 12.40, it was time to load up the cars, and head off for the track, the slot car track, for 90 min's of trigger happy fun.......

14 R26er's meet up to enjoy the fun, we were put into teams of two, I wanted my team to be called, buff and show, but in translation that got changed into Polishers, but Claire was able to stick with here name of Pit Babes, even though Geoff was her partner!!!!!  Go Geoff......
Mark and Louis put in the only family team, so, now for the FUN, we had seven heats, where half way though, drivers would swap over, those not driving were "car putter, on-er's" this at times looked like the Dad's race, at a school sports day!!! as we were all so keen to get our cars back on track, without fail.....
So whether you were the driver or not, we all shared in so much fun, even, at one point getting the Scalextric advert song sung to us (can you remember that tune!).

From round 5 of the 7/the end, three teams were almost neck and neck on laps covered, I for one, was getting a ikkle dizzy with it all, the concentration required was TOTAL.  Then during the final phase silence took over (even I) as two teams raced for the line, Polishers & Pit Babes, and as if by magic, Kevin and I, the Polishers won....... And to our surprise, we were presented with a trophy, what a day of fun.

After we had all calmed and composed ourselves, most of us headed off to look round Porsche C Bournemouth, to look at the current models on show, to end the day, where some of our Porsche lives, began!.......
 

Some of the players . . .  



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Prior to the event many participants provided raffle prizes, Claire did stirling work in offering the raffle tickets to all . . .  Also, we had all loved the special moments, of watching Troy (age2) having the time of his life rolling the balls down the return tunnel.... as if were magic, how the balls re-appeared....

Then time for the 2nd round, this time W.M.C took on a stronger lead that we never matched, we ended the game gracefully with a loss of 27 points, 280 Vs 253.

After Tref thanked all playing so well, Geoff to the helm, for the raffle, we all raised £86.00 for the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance, a charity R26 has supported for over seven years now.

We ended the night with smiles after another successful, eventful evening, and PCGB members looking forward to our slot car event . . . .
 

Then a detailed presentation about our running/supporting the Goodwood FOS, Chris and Tref to organise.
Then, the potentional to dribble came!!! No, not the arrival of Angelina Jolie (for the men) or  brad pitt (for the ladies), but the fantastic opportunity to go on a Porsche Factory visit, ........ flip!!!!! really!!!!!

After the formals...... we all shared in chat and chuckles, it was great to see Robin and Ruth in attendance . . . and Karl and Maria, with Maria on the verge of bestowing us with another Porsche fan . . . 
 

Tref took us through our 2012 events list, with my constant interruptions from me, of times and prices, till June, our imminent skittles match, an evening of slot car racing, and a scenic drive, followed by Marks yummy lunch.

We heard of a Porsche factory tour planned for the 18th April 2012, a Three Day Tour, planning to stay at the Adler Hotel, B&B. Days filled with the Factory tour + varied choices, Audi R8 OR Merc factory, a planned after dinner speaker.

Contact Tref for FULL Details as he running our regions attendance  
Est £505.00pp + travel/misc, Deadline to join the tour, 20th Feb 2012

Then Chris and Tref shared all the plans for our planned help to run a stand at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, we went through how PCGB members from several regions might man the stand, regions working in unison, the theme was, young guns, born to win..... that the stand may have a prestige car + a members car.... how we would endeavour to share our love of the region, and the club nationally, in order to encourage members to be more active, as well as recruit new members to the PCGB fold.

So as ever, a full and thought provoking meeting, with certain members salivating about certain events..........
 

Tref, 2012 events and the past year and our Christmas meal, then onto a detailed talk about our regions proposal to run a event at The Goodwood Festival Of Speed in 2012, along with R23 Sussex and R17, Southern. Also our forthcoming skittles match, and the plan to go slot car racing.

Pic 1 -
Helen age 11 - Wine bottle puzzle - Presented with an R26 Mug
Pic 2 -
Sharon Hak scored 36 in the Quiz - Presented with an R26 Mug

We all enjoyed a cosy Chetnole Inn, after a catching up chat in the bar, we all went through to a private dinning area, where we shared in a 3 course meal, all total YUM options . . . . followed by coffee and a choc's.

Toward the END of the meal, the word was out . . . its Christine's Birthday, so and ice cream with a candle was brought through, and Christine was taken by our high standard of singing . . . a moment to treasure  . . .

We parted in a festive mood, with thoughts of our last meeting, next Thursday,
roll on 2012, I need my R26 fix........
 

Our 2nd Christmas Celebrations at the G.A.Hotel, an evening for 2011's events to be remembered at our Christmas Celebrations & Dinner. We were in the Elizabethan Room, dress code was smart/casual to DJ's ........

The evening cost £25 pp, (under 16's £15 pp, benefiting from a *£10 R26 subsidy) we are pleased also pleased to offer you a special room rate of £60

As we arrived we shared in a welcome drink, followed by a three course meal with party poppers!!!  View the Menu we enjoyed. Sue and her team did sterling work, not only with the food, but also with the service.  We had 46 members / family/ friends at the evening. The tables looked stunning in black and gold. We enjoyed our meal, while a few "nawty" members blew hard to expand so noise balloons to their maximum size!!!!

During the meal we also enjoyed seeing who was captured in pixels during the year by Nick and Tref, so Geoff ran a 2011 review slide show, displaying all the events we ran/attended throughout the year . . .

Then Tref took to the floor, thanking us all as inviting Tim O'Dowd up to present our member of the year 2011 award. This was presented by Tim to Chris Hak, who was mad up to receive the award, giving us a short speech on how he feels that we are all such good friends, having made him and Sharon so welcome from day one!!

Then Geoff took to the floor, spec's on, then he meander through "all" we did as a region in 2011, when you hear it all feed back, its hard to think "did we do all that" . . . .    finishing on an upbeat note about patting ourselves on the back, as we made it all happen . .

Then Tref thanked us all and shared his and our expectations for 2012, a few of the new events we might run, this on top of our 2011 events we plan to repeat, WOW......So in summary, what a success, good giggles, good event chat, yummy food, even yummier company, a full event slide show and our 6th MOTY award, then to top that we raised £237.00 for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, from our raffle, prizes donated my members and our supporting businesses.

Well do all . . . . . . . . . .
 

Mr Bond, pass the salt to
Mr Bond!!!!


Henry, using all his HOT Air!


All enjoying the yum . .

 

Tim, presenting Chris
with our 2011 MOTY award

Air Ambulance say's thanks...

Tref welcomed us all, and introduced us all to Steve, from Porsche Cars Reading, Steve gave us a detailed and so, so interesting presentation about Porsche hybrids........
I for one was taken by how technical and incredibly engineered the whole, electric/Petrol design, build and integration seems, seamless in function and operation, plus lots of lovely dashboard displays to take in as you enjoy the visual technology.

2.2. Members standing for election. Chris Hak General event assistance
3. Treasurer Report
4. Monthly meeting venue review
5. AOB
Christmas meal venue being researched by Mark

Quiz - Geoff did his annual quiz, Mark B and Lawrence H teamed up to get a score of 26/30... wow, potential RO's!!!!
 

04th - Royal Agricultural College
          Sunday R26 stand cars at R.A.C - (4) Kevin, Paul B, Geoff F, Tref

   19 Att - Geoff, Kevin, Nick, Karl, Maria & Troy, Mark, Jo and Louis,
   Chris & Sharon, Paul and Jo, Tref, T + 1, Rene, Chris H +1

 

Tipec BBQ and fun day, Anderwood site in the New Forest
OS Grid Reference: SU 249 058

5 Porsche departed Dorchester.F.C at 11.10 for an R26 convoy to the event, meeting up with James on route, the traffic was "mad" as there were caravans and boats on trailers everywhere......
Once parked up we had Geoff, Kevin +1, Nick, Mark D + 2, Dave C, Claire W, Susan & Brian T, James & Suzy, Geoff H, John & Wendy H enjoying the event with Nick Snook and his Tipec region.

Tipec had the BBQ in full swing, with as many burgers, sausages and soft drinks as you could manage, donations for the food and drinks went in the pot with the raffle prizes, to the Poole Hospital Charity, as ever, the Tipec raffle was one to marvel, and with no Brett there to win it all, this honour fell to Dave C, who cleared the table, the charity auction also brought in a lot of money for the charity.... well done all who helped out.

The time shared there was as friendly as ever, and as a region we were pleased to see Mark D take the 1st place in the informal concours, ouch!! I had my eye on that one, well done Mark. So our 4th time at this event was as enjoyable as ever, roll on the events we share in 2012.........
 

DORSET R26 - Kingston Lacy House, BH21 4EA
Our 6th Anniversary Family day and Concours

R26er's woke up, seeing a dry yet cloudy day, and headed off to the venue with a smile, (as the last 8 days had been wet) most of the helpers arrived between 09.00-09.30, well, those who set their alarm!!!!!!!
Concours entrants starting arriving just after 10.00, it was great to see some arrive from Devon, and others from Hants and Wilts.... + two new R26er's to meet and greet ......
Chat and cleaning were of the order till 12.30, then just a gentle dust off.

Entry to the R26 display area and grounds was £7 per car, once parked up, Porsche owners and their family's enjoyed the cars, the houses gardens, as well as each others company. Some enjoyed lunch by their car or in the Stable Cafe, while having enjoyed the extensive gardens, grounds and walks.

During the day, many people who had come to see the house, also walked down to our display of cars, learning from the varied owners, their Porsche model and differing ownership stories. Also enjoying the three cars PCB had on display, as well as watching Paul Roff demonstrating paintless dent removal.  During the day we also enjoyed having a slice of cake, that Maria had kindly provided, all home made by her own fair hands, we also put our "glossy black" concours stands to use for the 1st time, ... stunning .......

Our family day was supported by Porsche Centre Bournemouth, Marque 21, Swissvax and Paul Roff.  They all helped support our raffle, donating prizes along with many R26 members.  Louise and Martin from PCB, and Martins wife and daughter joined Tim and Lisa from M21 in judging some of the many cars competing in our concours classes, see placing's below.

Louise from PCB kindly assisted by presenting the concours 1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophy's.
Straight after the awards we held a stunning raffle, I know several ladies, and the odd!!!! guy, wanting to win one of the lovely Porsche teddy's Ruth had kindly donated, I was so pleased to see they all went to good homes.
Through the raffle, we raised £241.00 for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance

So, to summarise, the day was a total success..... well done to all who attended, and special R26 hugs to all who helped out, THANK YOU................

(Please view www.Autodents-dorset.co.uk)

The after a short pause, Noel gave a talk through on air conditioning (his forte), while showing us all the components that "keep you cool", then taking technical questions. (Please view, www.Coolitautomotive.com)

As we parted, several members then topped the day off with a pub lunch......

Dorset members and their cars enjoy a morning at Cool-It

Paul Roff, giving a Paintless Dent Removal demo . . 

10 Porsche and a Volvo left G.A.Hotel for a short scenic drive to Marks Hotel, The Bridge House Hotel, Prout Bridge, Beaminster. On route we took in the tunnel and the yummy noise that makes!... on arrival there were two more Porsche to swell the numbers, 26.5 members and their friends/family shared in the good company and yummy food. Please try the Hotel for yourself if you didn't get to attend as the atmosphere and food are just perrrrrrrrrfect.....

It was nice to meet Tan again, and her daughter Lucy, as well as Mike and his 944 Turbo for the 1st time.  After a chat and a couple of group pic's by the cars, Mark lead us to the garden area and treated us to a glass of bubbly, bubbly......  then we made our way to the main dinning area, all perfectly laid out for us.  I enjoyed the sirloin of beef, followed by the dark chocolate pudding and a nawty choccy with a coffee...... all of which was top draw yum, that satisfied my tum!!! and that's a discerning tum...... so well done to Mark and his team....... and that's from US ALL, everyone I spoke with, loved the time spent at the meal.

Geoff was head of the "TOP" table, and poor Louise and Gary got lumbered with me!!!!! .... we shared a side splitting time, I saw a lot of happy faces with empty plates.......

After the meal was over, those of us who wanted to stay and chat we ushered back out to the garden area, we all shared a time of reflection of past events, as well as eager anticipation for forthcoming events.

I shared a giggle with Mark and a lady staff member, when she misheard my criticism of my "own, rubbish eye sight", which almost earned me a right hander!!!!  So all in all a, fun, exciting, chatty, yummy and tasty time. We parted looking forward to our next event at Cool-it.........

Look at the yum we enjoyed - View menu
 

Read more in next months PP . . .