Very Quiet...

Hi James,

You are right, I can hear the wind whistling most of the time!

Mind you I have only seen one other M3 around here.

When I joined I hoped there would be informal pub meets etc aswell as highly organised do's.

Maybe just needs a kick off.

I'm on Norfolk Suffolk border with my 88 Evo2

Regards

Kevin

Too busy finishing up work before Christmas to go to the Christmas do unfortunately.

So then who lives within 30 miles of Diss? Maybe have a meet at the Old Ram on the A140

Hi guys
Sorry that we can't organise events every week or month in EAR but we have had a full calendar this year
I have now stepped down as Regional organiser for 2004 and due to work pressures don't have much time to keep looking at the forum or more frequent events one every other month took huge amounts of time. I do still get e-mails of any posts so have noted your comments......
If you wish to organise pub meets and the like this would be great   We are always on the look out for members willing to lend a hand. However perhaps I could ask you to run things by Chris Wadsley who is in charge for the next year so he can fit things in with his own calendar of regional events next year. You can contact him on 01553 810467 I am sure he would be interested in recruting such willing helpers! Also don't forget we need plenty of notice if you want to publish in the magazine as deadline is month prior to publication date soend December is deadline for Feb edition . I am still doing the pages so you can e-mail EAR if you have any contributions about your cars etc.
We used to all meet for monthly committee meetings at the Cornwallis and also the Highwayman is nice on the A14/A140 junction. But as you are finding out E.A.R. is a BIG region and finding a centrepoint between Cromer, King's Lynn Cambridge and all of Essex for Regular meets is a problem. The Norfolk Suffolk Border is about 1hr or so from most members hence we tended to use Diss ! Ipswich or Bury are also possibilities but parking is a hassle in town. yes its a long way from Essex but so is Essex from Cambridge or North Norfolk !
If you do organise something let me have the details by e-mail and I will mail out to the e-list I have of regional members and try and come along
Mike Milbourne
PS I have an M3 in Diss which is probably the one you have seen Kevin ?

OK chaps where are you all

If you fancy a meet post your location and we'll find somewhere centralish.

I'm Suffolk side of Diss

James
There are nearly 300 members in EAR at the last count I had.
i should explain perhaps that prior to Mid 2003 i used to send out quarterly event fliers to all EAR members complete with booking forms etc
However National vetoed this and despite having the regional funds to do it we now have to do everything through Straight six and the Mag. Personally I think it sucks and this is one reason why I resigned and why members do not get to know about events. (its a rather longer story actually) We had real autonomy in the region with our own funds to spend as we liked and we were completely self supporting. However this was deemed not to be in 'the spirit of the Club" and we now have to requisition National to spend over £50!. In addition the money which was generated by 'the few' was deemed to belong to 'everyone" and cannot be spent on those who generated it....... ie our fund suddenly was made unavailable to us!
I have been a member of the BMW Ccar Club for over 25 years and run the region with help from others, who shared the duties equally, since its inception in 1984. To say that i was a liitle peeved would be an understatement .

It is however very encouraging to see some new interest as normally we are supported by the dozen or so stalwarts who turn up for the various lunches. Chris has some great events planned for 2004 and i hope to get some of our members to organise a lunch once a month (or two) at a local pub throughout the region. We have (supporting) members in Cromer Brentwood Huntingdon, Near Stanstead, Hemel Hempstead , London Wisbech King's Lynn and of course DISS! If you would like to pick a Sunday and suggest a suitable watering hole we can park at and have lunch, a chinwag and perhaps a short drive to something interesting then this would be great and I can e-mail all the people who would actually turn up !
One of the problems of "impromptue" pub meets is that you may drive 60 miles to a meeting to find yourself on your own. Previously we have felt booking and getting people to pay was the best way otherwise we not only end up with no one but look complete pratts if we "book" meals at a pub and no one turns up.
It is obvious you and Kevin are keen, so pick a spot that suits you and we can advertise it from there. We should be able to get 10-20 people from the "stalwarts" mailing list
Unfortunately the National office is as yet unable to supply us with a 'regional e-mail list' quoting data protection etc etc...
I have to confess i haven't used the forums much so if there are lots of you out there that want to get together in EAR then let me have your e-mail address by mailing me at bmwcarclub@east-anglia-region.co.uk and I will add you to the e-mail list I have. It is then a simple job of e-mailing you a short event flier.

I would be interested in meets. I`ll send you my email address if you could kindly add me.

Darren

Cambridgeshire

 

Edited by Darren

I wonder if you are thinkng of doing another french run like the one to chateau tilques you did before.

 

That was very good, I travelled from the central region to go on that one.

Whoa something was posted in this section!! Thats the first time in months.  This does seem to be a quiet section but sure its not to the fault of anybody.

If any E30 guys are about and fancy a meet there is one this saturday in thurrock again after good one we had at the start of november. 

http://com2.runboard.com/be30zoneforum.fmeets.t58

 

Nothing to do with the BMWCC i must add, so i hope nobody minds it being posted here

Chidge,

Guilty as charged! That was my Evo2

It was your car I mentioned as being the only other one I've seen around here.

Your car looked very clean, obviously a well loved second or third car.

Mine no longer has the yellow lights ,they were not very bright, they were French!

I'd love to meet up for a chin wag, send me a pm and we'll organise something, pub, house whatever

Regards

Kevin

Very nice of you to say so Howard,

If you want to get anything else off your chest then why don't you PM me.

Oh and by the way, I was not criticising the organised meets, my family thoroughly enjoyed Gaydon.

It has been commented on having to go through a centralised committee with no local autonomy.

I was disappointed that no informal pub meets were arranged so I am arranging one myself.

Oh and well done on it being your idea for the forum, why didn't you patent it because you could have made a mint from scoobynet, S14.de and numberous other worldwide forums for using your idea.

If it is such a chore for you Howard then why don't you resign and stop moaning. No you do it because you enjoy it, as would anyone who runs a local/ county football league.

I think it is sad that when a member who has paid his subscriptions cannot make a genuine comment on what he feels his club could be doing without getting a defensive rant from a committee member. All organisations should be willing to take on board honest criticism from it's members.

Happy Christmas Mr Pachyderm.

Any others prepared to make a comment?