Author: Bill Deakin

For those people who forget to pick up a payment instruction slip when they are staying at Beudy, the bank account details are:- Account number: 40599913 Sort Code: 20 55 41. Please reference your payment using the page/line number(s) from the hut register.

I’m away from tomorrow (24th) until the 8th of November. Please contact Steve Gregory if you want to make a booking during this period.

In October, Beudy is free anytime except the weekend of 19th/20th, when Thom Hall has booked the whole place. In November, apart from the advertised Club Meets on 23rd/24th (Chris Foster) and 30th/1st Dec (Audrey Russell), the hut has been booked for the weekend of 9th/10th by Reading MC (12 spaces), and Wednesday/Thursday (13th/14th) when Blind Veterans will be using the whole hut for a charity event. There are no bookings at all in December, although I am sure there will be the usual New Year get together at the end of the month. As usual, let me or Steve know if you want to use Beudy. We’d love to see you using what we think is the Club’s best hut!

Beudy has been booked by Blind Veterans UK for an event on 13/14 November. Six blind veterans assisted by four sighted helpers are providing overnight support to other veterans involved in an exercise in Snowdonia. The event is midweek.

Here we go with bookings over the next couple of months or so:- This month, John Wootton has booked 5 places from the 18th to the 23rd. There are 4 people booked in for the Bank Holiday weekend and Carole Smithies has booked the whole hut for the weekend of 31st/1st September as part of her High Camp Meet. In September, Andy Baron has booked 7 places for the weekend of 7th/8th and Keith Towell has booked 2 spaces for the week commencing 16th. There are no bookings for October as yet.

Problem 1. The boiler has packed up so there is no hot water at present. We are waiting for the parts so the plumber can sort it out – hopefully the system will be operating by this time next week. Problem 2. Not really a problem, more of a rant. Between last Saturday and yesterday morning, someone’s vehicle has hit the wooden post protecting the low stone wall. It must have been with some force because the post was knocked into the wall itself, shunting the whole thing forward by about 6 inches. Accidents happen but no one has owned up or left a note. I’ve repositioned the post so even the stupidest driver can see it, assuming they know how to use their mirrors! Rant over.

This is how it stands up to the end of September:- It is Elizabeth Wilson’s Club Meet this weekend (13/14 July). I believe there are some spaces left, so contact Elizabeth if you would like to go. Apart from a couple of bookings for 2 or 3 people towards the end of the month, the hut is empty in July. in August, Steve Gregory has a Club Meet on the weekend of 3rd/4th, John Wootton has booked 5 spaces from the 18th to the 23rd and Joe Fisher has booked 2 spaces on the Bank Holiday weekend of 24th to the 26th. Carole Smithies has booked the hut for her High Camp Meet on the 30th to 1st September. In September proper, Keith Towell has booked 2 places from the 16th to the 20th. Please let me or Steve know if you intend using the hut. Thanks.

Just a reminder about next week’s working meet. Let me know if you intend coming so that I can sort food,etc out. Thanks

Up to the end of June. OBEC have booked the entire hut next weekend (11/12 May) and Barrie Schofield has booked 4 places the following weekend (18/19 May). The rest of May is free. The working meet is on 1/2 June – please let me know if you are coming so I can organise food. Martin Cooper has 4 places booked for 10/11 June, Andy Scott 6 places the following weekend (15/16 June), Peak CC have 10 places the next weekend (22/23 June) and Derwent MC have booked 10 places for the last weekend in June (29/30).

Just a heads up for this coming Easter weekend – Beudy is fully booked. However, at present, the hut is empty the following weekend and over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. Our old friends, OBEC have fully booked the hut for their annual Welsh weekend on 11/12 May. The place is again empty until the working meet on 1/2 June. Let me or Steve know if you intend using Beudy.