Archive: CVB in Wales 1990-something

During the course of "the old blog" I began to post some pictures from way back. I wore out my old Canon scanner with over-working it, but not so many pictures made it to the blog itself. In the course of moving I am having what can only be described as a bit of a clear out, of books, comics, CDs, etc etc, and this includes all my "old" photos.

Before binning them though I am scanning selectively......(relatively) and am going to bore you with the results.

Starter for ten:

 Mark & Willy

Charlie Boy

 L-R Chris North, Mark, Kevin & (I think) Peter H.

Kevin

 L-R: u/k, Alun, (in the back of the Lada) Di, Melvin (I think), Charlie, & u/k but possibly Grommit.

 Willy & Kevin.

 Charlie (enjoying himself) & Sophie.

 L-R: u/k, Di, Peter, Junior Fallowfield, Chris North, Kevin.

 L-R: Jagger, Peter, Kevin, Shona, seated is Diddy Dean.

 Kevin, Soph, Jnr Fallowfield.

 Diddy, u/k (w child), Jagger, Kevin, u/k, Jnr Lindley.

 A very moustached Charlie...

 The victory salute.....

These may well be an amalgam of two separate Wales trips, but I am not sure. They'd be late 1980s or early 90s though.

The CVB use to visit the Barmouth/Llanbedr region on August Bank Holiday weekend. Arriving Friday evening for a serious drink then 7am start, break for a big fried breakfast, then a five o'clock afternoon meet....also followed by serious drinks.... This was repeated on Sunday (Hush my mouth) and Monday morning.

We called it "Basic Wales" and it was surprising just how little sleep & how much alcohol you could fit into such a small time frame......

My first visit saw one of my co-drinkers go up to bed as the huntsman was pulling his boots on for the morning's meet......He simply changed footwear and put his coat on and turned around to go out. Mad though it might seem, he was the driver for the hound van.....

How we survived "Basic Wales" I will never know. These days we go a bit later in the year, and keep it a bit more civilised....honest.