Is anyone planning to attend the 2017 Bovington Tank Fest next year?
The wife and I are going to Iceland/England next year for our 1 yr anniversary/belated honeymoon and she's graciously letting me attend Tank Fest next year.
Be neat to meet some Grogheads and drool over some of the tanks!
Would love to. You offering to pay our way? All of us? ;D I'd watch that wife. If she's willing to share the 1st Anniversary with tanks..... she might be setting you up for something. Just saying.
I'd buy ya a pint (yanks are allowed to use that phrase, right!), nothing more! :P
She is going to attend Saturday's events, but Sunday I get the museum all to myself! She's off exploring the countryside!
Why she wouldn't want to enjoy all the eye candy in that museum is beyond me :uglystupid2:
I've been to several tank museums and the Bovington museum is the best in the world. If you like armor you will have an excellent time.
I took a train out from London. It was a nice walk to the museum. It is through the countryside and you will see guys in training with turrentless tanks if you are there on a weekday.
I may well be there - it's pencilled in at least
Quote from: JudgeDredd on September 23, 2016, 01:03:28 PM
I may well be there - it's pencilled in at least
Hope to see you there JD! O0
I live about 20-25 miles from there. Depending on commitments closer to the time, it would be good to see you and JD. O0
Quote from: Boggit on September 23, 2016, 09:30:17 PM
I live about 20-25 miles from there. Depending on commitments closer to the time, it would be good to see you and JD. O0
That would be great Boggit!
As the trip out gets closer, I'll nerco this thread back to life and/or contact you and JD O0
do you skull a favor and don't let your wife and Bawbs wife hang out.
Quote from: Boggit on September 23, 2016, 09:30:17 PM
I live about 20-25 miles from there. Depending on commitments closer to the time, it would be good to see you and JD. O0
If you live 25 miles from there you should be bored of it with it being on your doorstep...that's too close to not want to go regularly.
I will definitely try and get there. I was stationed in Colerne in Wiltshire when I was in training and I wanted to visit the camp before it was swept away like the rest of my life - so I've pencilled a weekend in and depending on commitments closer to the time, I should be there.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 24, 2016, 12:18:43 AM
do you skull a favor and don't let your wife and Bawbs wife hang out.
lol - it would be nice to have Mr and Mrs Bawb there but they are a considerable distance away from Bovington...we could try and apply some pressure :knuppel2:
Quote from: JudgeDredd on September 24, 2016, 01:27:52 AM
Quote from: Boggit on September 23, 2016, 09:30:17 PM
I live about 20-25 miles from there. Depending on commitments closer to the time, it would be good to see you and JD. O0
If you live 25 miles from there you should be bored of it with it being on your doorstep...that's too close to not want to go regularly.
I will definitely try and get there. I was stationed in Colerne in Wiltshire when I was in training and I wanted to visit the camp before it was swept away like the rest of my life - so I've pencilled a weekend in and depending on commitments closer to the time, I should be there.
I live in Bournemouth. To be honest, I've been a couple of times, and it's a brilliant museum, although I haven't been there for quite a few years now.
So you're ex RAF then? It's a small world. O0 That accounts a lot for your need for speed games. 8) ::)
IIRC, depending on the timing, some of the local wargame groups put on public and presentation table top games there too - that was a long time ago, so I have no idea if they still do it, although it seemed popular at the time.
You Brits get to have all the fun. Pubs and museums on every corner. I'd move there if yall spoke proper English and had real Football. 8)
Quote from: Boggit on September 24, 2016, 01:40:43 AM
Quote from: JudgeDredd on September 24, 2016, 01:27:52 AM
Quote from: Boggit on September 23, 2016, 09:30:17 PM
I live about 20-25 miles from there. Depending on commitments closer to the time, it would be good to see you and JD. O0
If you live 25 miles from there you should be bored of it with it being on your doorstep...that's too close to not want to go regularly.
I will definitely try and get there. I was stationed in Colerne in Wiltshire when I was in training and I wanted to visit the camp before it was swept away like the rest of my life - so I've pencilled a weekend in and depending on commitments closer to the time, I should be there.
I live in Bournemouth. To be honest, I've been a couple of times, and it's a brilliant museum, although I haven't been there for quite a few years now.
So you're ex RAF then? It's a small world. O0 That accounts a lot for your need for speed games. 8) ::)
IIRC, depending on the timing, some of the local wargame groups put on public and presentation table top games there too - that was a long time ago, so I have no idea if they still do it, although it seemed popular at the time.
Oh good god no - I wasn't RAF. I wanted to, but they wanted me to get A levels and all I wanted to do was leave school.
I was in The Royal Corps of Transport. Nothing exotic I'm afraid. Loved it though...well, the people. Colerne was a training establishment for Junior Leaders.
Quote from: Sir Slash on September 24, 2016, 10:01:32 AM
You Brits get to have all the fun. Pubs and museums on every corner. I'd move there if yall spoke proper English and had real Football. 8)
I like your football, but I really couldn't call it "real" football, especially as it's so like rugby and not at all like actual football.
Surely the "real" tag to football should be on how long it's been going on? ???
Anyway, I prefer your "football" to ours. Can't stand the game. :-X
Well they do get to put a foot on the football once in a while. I like to think of it as Millionaires beating the crap out of each other. And the least they could do is STAND for the National Antheum of the nation giving them so much money. Dammit.
Its been a bit over 50 years since I last went to Bovington, and I know its grown considerably since then. I have a bunch of B&W photo's taken there and I had a bit of a climb on the jagd Panther, which was parked outside the main building at that time.
As it happens, Mrs B and I was talking about trying to arrange a visit, as she wants to see Tiger 131 almost as much as I do.
So could be a Grogfest ;D
Pints are on me!! :D :uglystupid2: :crazy2:
Well bugger me - I'm definitely in then!
I'll be inside Tiger 131 with Bob and Mrs. Bob. Do you deliver those pints?
ROFL :-)
For free beer and tanks I might fky over.
Damn....the wife isn't going to be too happy with me spending our vacation money getting you all sauced :o
I know a great Divorce Lawyer. He works for my Ex-Wife. Maybe he'll buys us all around. He can afford it, he has all my money. 8)
Quote from: Sir Slash on September 26, 2016, 10:12:58 PM
I know a great Divorce Lawyer. He works for my Ex-Wife. Maybe he'll buys us all around. He can afford it, he has all my money. 8)
Yikes....we're only 2 months into this....clearly not enough time for me to mess things up! O0
She has all the money to begin with!! O0