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I just happened to be browsing through the Eagle's facebook site when I noticed that today is the birthday of one of us Eagles. Happy birhtday Phil, now living in Devon, and long time friend and colleague of Bob Ambrose and Chas Wilde. Good to see you still getting out on the bike and enjoying the rough stuff.
PS. The facebook site is where you will find the Eagle discussion board so why not join up?
After all our work on the clubhouse over the last few weeks I thought I should share this photograph with you. Christine Smith kindly sent it up to me and I believe it was taken in 1968. Not before my time but certainly before I joined the Eagle.
There are some other photographs in the collection and I will create an album on this site in due course. But I think this photograph is so good is is worth printing out full size.
Well, we have spent another Sunday restoring our clubhouse to it's former glory - although as you can see last Sunday was more re-build than build.
If you wish to pay your last respects to our beloved caravan you had better make a date of visiting the clubhouse this November - there are Eagles with angle grinders in hand!
A few of us have spent the last few Sundays at our Ugley HQ and we plan on continuing through November and December in time to start training on the bike again in the New Year. Come along and join in the fun enjoying the comradeship of fellow Eagles.
We even had the Eagle flag up this Sunday there were so many Eagles lending a hand.
Message from Cippo McArdle
Well it is only six weeks away, and will we see Ian Derny Eastwood slip into a white beard and red suit as Farther Christmas to hand out the mince pie’s? If you come along your find out!!
Yes it Tis the Festive season and time again for you all to come along for our Christmas get together. The evening starts at 8 pm sharp! And the usual applies: Bring your own booze and snacks, Antonio will no doubt bring along an Italian Xmas cake.
Wednesday 17th December 2008
Starts 20.00 Hrs
Venue; Wanstead Cricket Club, Nutter Lane, Wanstead, E11
Google Map just click here
Rita Beresford has kindly booked the Wanstead Cricket club room, on our behalf, so many thanks Rita!
There will be a small charge to cover the room hire. This will be between £2 ~ £3 depending on the numbers attending.
So mark it in your dairies Wednesday at 8, I mustn’t be late!! And bring your friend’s coz the more the merrier!!!
The Club Room is sited on the bottom end of Nutter Lane in the sports field which can be found of Preston Drive of the Eastern Avenue or via the back streets from Wanstead High Street; if you get yourselves to where Peter & Rita live Reydon Ave then Nutter Lane is of this.
A little early I know but let me be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas!!!!
Hi all Alan McArdle here....
Well as the heading suggests the club house and grounds needs your attention!!!!!!!!!
A few weeks back Tony took the bull by the horns and started to rub down the club house and treat it with a coat of fence treatment. Shortly after that Tony’s wife Adelle, my girlfriend Karen and I have joined forces with tony and worked extremely hard over the last few weekends. We have rubbed down the hut and treated the club house with two coats of fence treatment and we agree that the club house is looking like new. I have repaired all the guttering, and now, we have too rub down the window frames and treat them.
Tony has also made a start on cutting back the trees around the edges of the club grounds which has made for some great Bon Fires and with this we have enjoyed family days cooking our jacket pots, sausages, beans in and on the fire!!!!!!!!!
As we all know the club house and grounds from time to time needs our undivided attention otherwise it is going to just rot away. And as much as we love riding our bikes we do need to forgo this occasionally and look after our prized asset THE CLUB HOUSE, and in return that will look after the club and its members for many years to come.
With this in mind I am inviting all the members for as many Sundays as it takes to get the club house and grounds back to its former glory. As the saying goes “Many Hands Make Light Work” and the sooner we knuckle down to it the sooner we can all get back out on our bikes, with the minimum of ongoing maintenance if we keep on top of the jobs to be done when they arise (there is plenty of time over the winter to get your club runs in, in preparation for the 2009 season). Plus with the club house restored we are looking towards getting the members to make more use of it in the coming years.
So what needs to be done?
Well, as I have said Tony, the girls, and I have nearly finished one major task in treating the club house exterior. (We will be looking to giving the inside a make over too when the weather out side is bad. i.e. painting, new roller blinds for the windows, kitchen blitz (which the girls have started), etc. Also redesigning the bedroom in some way as to make more room for changing on race days!).
So as you can see there is still plenty to be done.
I will be at the club house this Sunday 9th and future Sundays (except the weekend of the 22nd /24th Nov as some of us will be at the Ghent 6) from about 9am through till dusk approx 16.30ish 17.00. I will supply milk for tea and coffee making, but I will leave it up to you to make your food arrangements. Don’t forget we have a fully working cooker and microwave!
The club does have some tools, but I would be excellent if you were able to bring saws, cutters, secateurs, an axe (come on guys, one of you must be a mad axe man), also heavy duty gloves, safety glasses/goggles and a boiler suit if you happen to have one,(otherwise old clothing and sturdy boots).
If you have families to consider then you are more than welcome to bring them along, I am sure the young men (boys), would be happy to muck in and Im sure would enjoy themselves!! And quite probably the wives may well be glad of a few hours on their own?
O.K. Weather Wise
Unless it’s absolutely raining cats and dogs then I think it’s imperative that we still attend the working days. If you wake and are not sure if the day is going ahead then please don’t hesitate to call me on my mobile 07956 482 307. So no excuses lads!!!!
So there we have it members, you have been invited to make a contribution to the club house working days!! Please don’t take the attitude that oh that’s alright coz so and so will do it if I don’t!!!
It’s our entire club house so lets all put something back into it!!
Could you have it on your conscience that your club mates are helping are your not??
Kind regards
See you all Sunday
cippo
