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Ok guys no you're not seeing things , no tafflaff hasnt been out in the sun too long, yes we've skipped one for the moment , but thats cos its going to take a bit of planning. Below will follow the idea, none of it is cast in stone we're looking for support or some feedback.  We have a couple  farms in mind the area is THE GOWER  in spitting distance of a hitoric site.

*UPDATE* Date for 2 dayer probably July 12th...This is not definate but will give you an idea

All those intending to camp please pm me as those details need to be got asap to book the campsite places

Campsite facilities are as follows:-

Showers
Toilets
Restaurant -Cafe
Right on the beach

Day 1:- Meet at Camp site                                                      
             Get to farm (not far away)
             Rally.
             BBQ, Drink,  Wander onto beach with tectors.
             Overnight Camp


Day 2:-                      
              2nd farm Rally

  PS. We may be having some oversea Visitors.

Some members have expressed an interest in doing some fishing on the beach , no problem guys its your time, I may well join you

Hope to depends on location, date and access, just have to check my bivvy out???

As we have discussed Rob this is fine with me.

I would suggest perhaps a weekend during the first 3 weeks of July as it means the kids aren't off school and a lot more could attend, as people ttend to book their holidays when the kids are off - doesn't bother me as I have none!

 If we could have another farm for the 2nd day - all well and good. If people want to go beach detecting I think they will just naturally do it anyway. We may find that Day 1 farm is worth 2 days visits especially if we were to limit the fields, and if our theories on the farm are correct - I would keep the location well and truly under your hat for the time being though.

Loved your interview with the ducks by the way and all the other videos - great job mate

cheers
Neil

two farm day's for me also.no putting towels over the sunbeds though. ;D

As you know from me Rob the whole area looks well interesting, but the beach does have that safe landing look about it so could be quite interesting. I would say give people the choice. As you may not know I am due to become a dad again around this time ( bad timing on my part ) so can only provisionally say i will be their. But what a great Idea. Well done Rob.

Hi Rob,Can I say provisionally yes and prefereably the two farms option.Pretty sure James2nd,Earth2 and Jonni will come but will get them to confirm.
Al :) :)

I agree with Neil , avoid the school holidays ( and the traffic ) and 2 farms would be 'tectin' heaven , I just need a tent !

sound good to me, i hope i can make it to that one then

 I am up for it. Last week of July and first week of August are out for me cos I am off to the South Coast (Where of course I intend to find a hoard). As an ex-army blokey I am relishing being under canvas again...Have I ever told you all that during the war...

im going for definite , the two farm option i will go for but dont care really will go with the majority. and as long as there is a BBQ and the drink then ...................that's happy days for me ;D................. and what a great idea as well TAFF ;)

*bmp*

I am up for it but i will have to share sumbody tent and just a warning i snore like a road drill  :!

i would go too. Detecting camping and a drink and bbq after it would be a great weekend good idea                                  (might put the rod in the car aswell)

Melon , light tackle they got Golden Grey mullet where we going , or Bass equipment in the night on that spot is a killer

DIG IT not sharing a tent with you m8 after calling me a trouble maker i would rather share with TAFFS m8s...................... ;D

Thats the only couple of birds you would pull kev ;D

 Adie thats Saturday nights Barbecue. Kevs going to wake up lonely on sunday. :D :D ;D ;D :-*

Oh dont paul he is very sensitive ;D

this is me ha ha .dont care what you say  ;D

I hope its held somewhere near a scrumpy selling farm. On second thoughts...

hi taff count me in the two farms for me mate

sounds good two different farms on to different days sounds good in summer holidays would be good as i can get grannie to baby sit so count me in

its a graet idea  love it  ecspecialy the beer bit put me down for two farms

I think i,ll bring my woggle  ;D

I can see some having a sleepless night after that statment lol

I think ive still got my addition of scouting for Boys 1975 lol

Phil, the word has already gone out about what Tafflaff wants to hold in the dark, so please do not tell him about your woggle.

sounds like itll be a good laugh, id defo be up for it ( if i can find a job before then ) gotta be the 2 farms tough, beachs just dont do it for me

hmm i wouldn't mind a bit of both, farms in the day and beach in the evening,

Welcome to the forum Romano brit  ;D

I,ll be happy as long as no ones wants to play Gin Gang goolie  lol

melon let me know if your taking your rod if so i;ll take mine we could then have a hours fishing together lol
  DES

I'm taking mine as well Des , theres really good bass fishing in the dark up there

hey waltonbassin   congrats  bud    mines due around the same time as well   ..........  sounds like a good idea   i will poss   be able to do  either  one of the days  i hope    but  been told   NO SLEEPOVER    (women ahhh  )    cant live with them .......  cant hit them with the digging shovel    haha

i am just about to ask so all pray for  me

if saxon goes ill be there? :-\ good bassing up west ;D see u there desmond lol

hi taff glad to hear your taking  your rod we;ll have a fish and chip supper lol
  DES

Without giving too much away , what area are we looking at ?

West Wales Sod buster

2 days diggin, wow, can't wait.

Like one horse says if the back holds out and im sober i will definitely be there


    Jonny

kane i am defintley putting the rod in i havent been beach fishing for years and i used to do well on lures for bass around tenby in the evening and dig a few lugworm for the night for beachcasting

booked my holls for july 25th this morning for 2 weeks , just hope the two day rally wont be on  around  my dates TAFF m8 ::) ::) ::) ??? ??? ??? ???. hope the weekend rally can be earlier or later .................. ::) ::) ???

Theres no set date for that Rally at the moment , however , and I'm sure Geoff wont mind me saying this , He's working on a Rally Schedule at the moment , theres some really interesting venues on the cards, good times ahead as have been !

TAFF .......................please please don't make it those dates i put , i really want to go to this detectingwales.com rally w-end, grovel grovel.............. may even get drunk with you ,as long as you share your grub ha ha(again) ;D

Not up to me fella , although I could keep poking Geoff in the ribs until he gives in  ;D      What ya recon Admin?

will just have to sweat it out then TAFF ??? ??? ??? ::) ;) cheers anyway

What I will say though Kev is that it cant be peak Summer as it will be too difficult to get on the camp sites , cos school hols and The farmers dont like loads of holes dug on pasture in the hot weather as it dont nit back very good, also the birds rip the clodged back up after worms. The farmer said that himself. :-\

please dont dig me up TAFF :'( :'( :'( ;D

great melon head theres quite a few of us getting to gether to do some fishing so look forward to meeting you
  DES

i shall be there viking ;D count me in for this 1

see u all there count me in  ???

sounds great to me dont know bout overnight but will show my face sounds great and a change og scenery  :)

Please keep checking this listing at the top I will change its details as and when we firm them up. Please PM me, only if you DEFINATELY are going to CAMP, I need to know this before hand so we get camping places booked.

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UPDATED

Great idea  Rob im well up for that.
You know the Second day.

Most camp sites like you packed and away by 12 00 or pay for another night  maybe we could come to some arrangment with the site owners ?

Just a thought !
Phil

is it a proper camp site with facilities or just a feild with nothing else

Al its a proper campsite , all facilities , toilets,  showers, cafe, ect. Its on llangennith beach, a lot of the surfer types and fishermen use it.

To be honest Phil, In my head we would start the 2nd day rally a little later than normal, pack up and go to the 2nd rally site.

Cool fella , Tecting , Food , Beer and fishing. Maybe this site should change its name to Detecting Heaven.com

I know this Millsy , but Des and Stig have Volunteered

if iv got to sleep in the car im coming .................. are the lap dancers ....YES  im going Taff ;D ;D

Kev , they got 2 man tents in tesco for £7.oo ,

 ;D ;D TAFF i was joking about the car m8..ha ha. will borrow one of a family member, my girlfriend says i wont last because i love my comforts she says i will book in a B and B....the bet is on already ;D ;D ;D

Cant miss the BBQ and alcoholic/NON alcoholic beverage Kev

still sounds a laugh, even if u lot are gonna be fishing  ::) canny wait

Only a handful will go fishing fella.

me and the fox will come there want be much tecing or fishing for kev he,ll be chatting to the fox for two days he do like talking to you kev ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D i do know that PHIL ;D ;D ;D

a bit of fishing sounds great got all the gear havenot fished for 10 years i,ll take a rod and real for johnny to  ;)

Phil , do you want me to put you on the camping list? . Geoff will put an official sign up list in the next week or two, I'm just keeping a tally of those camping. to book the site.

i hope DIG IT is coming to the weekend rally, want to see if he really does get the cider down him, ;D........... are you coming to it ADIE m8!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

hi will phone john tonight thats the fox and will let you know asap to see if he will come has well

dont forget me taffy

stick me down for camping mate

Ok Romano you're down

count me in saxon viking see u there brb?

i'm up for camping but the site has to be at least an hours drive from my house

I can't make the 11th July unfortunately Rob as I will be in Crantock, Cornwall. I can do the weekend of the 4th or 18th, but just go with what the majority can do.

Sounds like it will be a cracker of a weekend!

Well done on the organising

Neil
 

I cant remember if ive invited myself yet or not

But Im coming   ;D

TAFF i hope this dont happen m8 when the weekend rally comes  ;D ;D ;D ;D..........................

Neil , I used to work in Newquay ( Cornwall ) spent many a night in the Seagull and the Albion , Do they still sell that manky Dawlish breweries beer ?

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looks good wish I was nearer.  like the BBQ idea keep me a burger and find something for me

hi rob me and the fox will be coming so put us down mate cheers (phil) ;)

ok Phil , no problemo.

Phil if you are sharing a tent with Borderfox dont think you will be getting much sleep that weekend m8 he will be chatting to you all night ;D ;D ;D ;D

im  sleeping on the grass kev dont you worry ;)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ps its not the chatting im worryed about if you get my drift kev :o

any update on this  2day  rally !!!!!!!!!!!! if we got to take our own drink how are we going to keep it cold ,i dont like  warm alcohol or are we going to the pub !! ??? ::) ;D TAFF whats your thoughts m8 !!

This is what i got so far, and this is not finalised so keep checking.

12th July
Meet at campsite in Llangennith or Oxwich to set up tents

Rally at Farm 1

Back to campsite.

BBQ, I think bring yer own food, that will solve the problem of what to charge.
I,m trying to borrow a big gas bbq  to do everyones food on, We are open to ideas regarding the food situation.

As for drink there is a shop selling all types of drink on campus so you could buy from there bearing in mind it would probably be more expensive. Though there is a few shops and garages between rally farm1 and the campsite that you could get drink from.

ideas ideas ideas guys, come on think!

Drink

as far as the drink goes we could all bring cooler boxes, food we could all bring the BBQ favorites sausages, bergers , chicken !!!! ::)

Yeah i,m with you there kev. I used to freeze bowls of water to make huge chunks of ice, put those in a triple black bag, cans in and tie the top. works a treat

if nothing crops up ill be there ;D

thats 2 weeks after our club weekender,  not sure if i can make both yet

Hi
I would really like to make it, think it would be fun,just need to make arrangements for her indoors? The idea of going to the pub sounds good to me. Cheers DAVE :D

Ok as an update , I have priced up camping at a site nearer the 1st rally farm , showers , toilets ect

Price is £6.00 per person, so everyone could take one tent if they wished. We can also book it in advance a week b4 and we will all be on the same pitch area. This site is still only a hundred yards from the beach so happy days! Cockles on the barbie!

cool cant wait, any idea what area of wales its gonna be yet?

Yes , think Gower and think sea view.  ;D

jeez just checked on the AA route planer, 240 mile round trip  :o

lol Nightmare , 120miles each way. Mind you , thats the same distance as Swansea to Rooksbridge, spreading it out is the fairest thing we can do. Hey at least you get to sleep overnight  ;D

might have to stay over on the friday as well then

Let me know fella if you do , I'll sort out the same discount for you on the first night if you like, she seems like a nice women , she should be ok with it.

this sounds a good rally, we will certainly try and get to this one and stay for the two days, it will give us a chance to try out our newly acquired campervan!
Florin and Groat

I,ll come if there are B.n.Bs close. At my advanced age,I don,t want
to sleep on the ground. Hopefully, Stan   :-\ :-\

Stan I noticed a B&B only a mile from the farm. The venue is by no means finalised yet , but I'm sure there'll be availabilty of B&Bs

for the amount of people thats posted for this rally do u think well need a bigger bbq... not saying every 1 will turn up but there will be a qiiet a few cut some 45 gallon drums in half fill with charkhole put a griddle on walla

hi,  any good for the barbacue good fresh beef ::) ::)

lovely cows john pity about the detector

Thanks for the B.n B info Rob, By the way, I heard a story on Sunday
that the 2 day rally had been abandoned, due to change of mind by
the farmer. Is there any truth in this? If so, what a bummer.  STAN

Stan - I think it may be a change of venue, rather than abandoned all together.  Tafflaff and the other organisers will keep you posted. :)

I am hopeing to arrange to attend the two dayer, so as much info would be good,as a lot to sort out at home,cheers  ;DDave

Yeah Debbies right fella . We've been having some problem with the venue farms. Now We've got farms across the bridge we can use , but all farms during this time are going to  be pasture only. One idea that we've been kicking around is to hoild the 2 dayer at the begining of September , when the weather is still nice, but we've got a far better chance of stubble fields to detect on.

Feedback on this idea anyone?

i think thats the week im away or weekend should i say
if its not id love 2 go

Can you count me and hubby in for camping also  will also like to do a bit of fishing.Sounds good looking forward to it and meeting up with you mad lot.LOL ;D

yer the cows are thinking what is that heap of rubbish :D :D :D

count me in love to go

Beginning of September is a good idea Rob. I took some annual leave in september last year for that reason , but it rained a lot  :'( :'( but you can't control the weather! Although I am starting to wonder  ;D ;D
Makes more sense to do it then and it is known as the rally season!

is it gonna be ploughed, or stubble?? please dont be pasture, getting fed up that green rubbish

Romano-Brit, that is the inherent problem with the summer , pasture, pasture and more pasture. Nearly all fields that aint pasture are growing crop. Even a lot of the pasture fields are put to silage, Timing is of the utmost essence.

This is why we are seriously contemplating, waiting until Early September and going for stubble fields. Even freshly ploughed are a pain in the butt.

The downside of this is that its hard to plan as no farmer will tell you he's going to harvest on such n such date . weather dictates when the farmer will harvest.

Add to the above factors, club rallys and other already organised rallys (weekend wanderers 2 dayer end of September) and I'm sure you'll get the picture of the obstacle course we are trying to negotiate.

When it comes closer to the time, whatever land becomes available, whether it be East or West, Wales or England, then I'm afraid we are going to have to  grab it with both hands and take it. I know theres a lot of people out there want it to be West and If we can , we will .but we are governed by a  huge amount of variables and the goalposts keep moving  ;)

Any ideas or thoughts please feel free to add.  Theres no such thing as a bad idea...unless it comes from Kevin  :P  :-*

have you any idea on what dates you are thinking of having this 2 day rally?

have to agree with you Rob, there are so many ifs and buts that whenever the opportunity comes we're gonna have to take the plunge. sure pasture isnt always ideal but, for me anyway, it'll be just great to meet up with mates from this site that will be the attraction. East or west just make sure Neil has booked the weather  ;)
he's done a hell of a job in that department so far.

hi rob we have a fellow frend from hot  :o spain who would like to come to the two dayer he my best bud great guy could you put him down as well you might recall him on there is name is gazzer he will bunk with us cheers rob ps they are coming from all over the world what a forum ;) :D :D best regards phil

Yes i'll be looking forward to attending,And having at good weekend with my best budddy phil.i'lltry and bring some spainish sun with me.

Keep checking Gazza , the date and or venue could well change , lots of things in the pipeline mate.

nice to see you on gazza gascoin a bit more often will do you no harm build up your posts mate  ;) see you soon (phil)

Thats better i'm home for that one..