Brunel Social Scene - June 2024

Group Leader Ramblings

June Monthly Meeting Venue

The Ashton is closed for refurbishment until early July so we will hold the June meeting back at The Plough in Pilning. We will be in our old room on the right as you go in the front door. The Ashton are happy to have us back when they reopen.

Last Month

Quite an eventful month. Bob and Ginny’s Fry and Fly was well supported at Hartleys and several also took the tour to the airfield at Compton Abbas, other events were:

• The monthly car meet in North West Bristol
• The Classic and Historic Mendip Tour
• A couple of meets at Puxton Park
• The Pageant of Transport on Weston Seafront over 2 days
• Lazy Monday starting off at Sanders Garden Centre

Things planned over the next month or so include:

• The Interclub International Weekend at Malvern over 28/30 June
• Highnam Court on 6 July
• Lympsham Fete also on 6 July
• Llandow TR Register Track Day on 10 July
• Other regular events: Redhill BBQ, the NW Bristol meet, Puxton Park

Auction

We were due to have a charity auction at the June meeting but with only 6 members expressing an interest it has been cancelled.

Event Photos and Reports

For those who may not be aware, the photos of our events are usually uploaded to the TR Register website and our TR Register Facebook page a few days after the event takes place, links are:

• TR Register Gallery www.tr-register.co.uk/group/brunel-trs/gallery.
• The TR Register Brunel Group Facebook page at www.facebook.com/bruneltrs.

Emails

Apologies if you sometimes get irrelevant emails, if you receive an email that begins with Newsletter: it has been sent as a personalised mailshot, usually to the whole group.

SOCIAL REPORT by Victoria Nangreave

The Social Committee met at Oakham Treasures on Friday 7 June and are pleased to announce the following events for you to get involved in.

Anyone for Skittles?

We are currently looking into holding a Skittles night either at Backwell Village Hall or BAWA, Southmead Road, Bristol, which includes a food option (small fee), so look out for this fun evening either in July or September. When finalised, please do let me know you will be attending so we can confirm numbers and food options. vnangreave@blueyonder.co.uk

Quiz Night

We are looking to hold a Quiz Night on Wednesday 16 October with a food offer, so will confirm venue and details in due course.

Of course there will Prizes, so remember to book your place!

Regular Events

Clevedon Car and Coffee – 1^st Saturday of every month, so just turn up – FREE event.

10.00 – 12.00noon – display of cars, coffee available and live music.

Sunday Morning Club Meet at Salt and Malt

Meet at Salt and Malt, Chew Valley Lake, every 2^nd and 4^th Sunday of each month.

The lake is a great setting and a café which is fully open serving great value breakfasts for late risers!

From 9.00am onwards - just turn and enjoy a breakfast, cup of coffee or just a social chat.

Please support this event and start to meet more members.

EVENT Reports

Fry and Fly – 26 May 2024 – by Neil and Dale Endean

The day arrived for Bob and Ginny’s Fry and Fly I had both the TR and MX5 ready to go but decided to take the MX5 this time.

We started our run from home at 8:25am and took the route through Keynsham joining the A37 then used the trusted Sat Nav for the journey to Hartley’s Bistro arriving at 9:35am.

On arrival a few TRs and some non-TRs were already there, which made me feel less guilty for taking the MX5.

An excellent breakfast was soon ordered and consumed by all. Bob then went through the detailed route that Ginny and himself had prepared for us all to follow and soon after it was time for us all to be on our way.

As requested, we gave Bob and Ginny a 5-minute head start and left Harley’s on our way to Compton Abbas Airfield following the detailed route notes supplied.

The route was very enjoyable and varied and apart from a couple of minor deviations off route we soon arrived at the base of the zig-zag hill section. Here’s a challenge I thought as we followed Tony and Helen up through the bends in their TR4A, I only heard a couple of slowdowns from Dale and we arrived at the airfield shortly after parking in the paddock with the other TR Brunel group members.

The weather was much better than expected so we did see some aircraft arrive and depart during the day which was great to see.

We had arranged to meet up with some friends who live in Poole who we had not seen for some time. We had an excellent lunch and catch up in the restaurant and it was soon time to say our goodbyes and leave Compton Abbas. We saw the other members out of the paddock and left for home soon after ourselves. We arrived home at 17:00 after a good but wet journey home, both Dale and I would like to thank Bob and Ginny for a very enjoyable day.

Ps: For those interested in aviation Compton Abbas will be holding an airshow on the 10-11th August 2024 well worth a visit.

The Northwest Bristol Meet

Another very well attended morning and the organisers may have to limit the numbers turning up now, including one potential new Brunel member.

The Pageant of Transport on Weston Sea Front – 25/26 May 2024

This should have been held over the Easter weekend, but it had to be postponed due to damage to the lawns and was rescheduled to the May Bank Holiday where we already had the Fry and Fly event. So, a few of us went on the Saturday to join Somerset Triumphs.

Puxton and Lazy Monday – May Meetings

A big variety of cars at Lazy Monday again this year, but no TRs when I was there, but I did leave a bit early as the weather became rather inclement, although I did see a number of classics heading that way on my trip home.

Diary – 2024

Items in bold are Brunel events.

An asterisk * means there is more information after the table.

Clicking the blue hyperlinks will take you to more information.

Any Red items are new/changed items for this month.

Regular Events Throughout 2024

Current Diary for 2024

* Denotes more information below the Diary.