The Big L fly-in 28th 29th Sept

[andrew wallace]

I SURVIVED the long journey home  :shock: the hardest part was from Wexford till Dublin the old shutters wanted to come down, but once i hit the N1 i seemed to get a bit of energy    i arrived home at about 7pm

i have to say in all the years i've been going to Big L this has to be the best turn out and long may it last and it's a real privilege to have so many good friends in the South of Ireland
it was great to have Donatas, Ilja and Richardas from Lithuania with us and i think they have taken home some great memories of Ireland  

plans are already being made for next year  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

and i have to agree with your wife Mandy Keith yea i am gorgeous  :wink:

And to Fred my old buddy like the sneaky photo of me sleeping  :lol:

[gerryb]

finally getting around to thanking people for making our trip (kieran wallace and i) such a memorable week-end, it took me until this evening to clear out the mobile club house.  ok, the wind may not have co-operated, but i think, the fun, jokes and laughter more than made up for it.

big thanks to roisin and john for food and diana for the fire water. thanks fred for the mini tool boxes, already coming in handy and to andrew, for singing just about every song ever written, amazing man!!

great to put faces to names too, most enjoyabe meeting stephan, son tom(he'll be teaching you before long stephan, watch this space!!), brendan and others to numerous to mention

looking forward to next year's get-togethers already.

as regards the sneaky sleeper,i'm wondering if that's young j.p. having a bit of a nod-off?  i discovered a cap with the word 'axi' on it in the camper and if the owner would like to pm me his address, i'll post it back to him asap, i think it might be yours john.

couple of photos to follow as soon as i get them off the camera.  gb

[JohnPearson]

Well, what a fantastic weekend, was great to see such a good turnout for the last event of the year. The wind wasn't perfect but the craic and company made up for it. It was good to see a few new faces and Richard's friends from Lithuania and Russia, I hope they bring home some fond memories of their weekend with us mad Irish glider pilots.  Yes Gerry the hat does belong to me, I will forward address to you.
Ok some photos from the weekend taken by photographer/cook Roisin:











Fred doing his 'river dance' :?:







Saturday night's entertainment and meal, ' oh the Vodka was flowing' :oops:



























Thanks to all the pilots who attended the event, looking forward to next year's season.

[billscottni]

Looks like I missed ANOTHER good event :!:  :!: One of these years my body will hold together long enough for me to make the trip again :cry:  :cry:

[andrew wallace]

this is for my good friend Fred  

this time last week my friend we were comfortably numb  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

[andrew wallace]

favourite song of the night Christy Moore's Ordinary Man

[Fred]

And I'm back!
Thanks Andrew for all that, God we had fun! (and some emotional fun...)

And talking about Pink Floyd... This is me about 2 or 3 weeks ago