Friday 29 March 2013

If we told you we would have to kill you.



Ian Shaw has sent me the minutes of the first organising committee meeting through. There is loads of stuff happening and everyone in the committee has stuff to do. Thanks to all of them for getting so involved, whilst I sit behind a computer doing the easy bit.

Now I could tell you everything that we have planned, but to be honest its going to spoil things a bit for you. So I'm not going to publish the full minutes on here. However if you hate surprises, always read the last page of the book first, stopped believing in Santa aged 4 and you want a copy. Email thevikingreunion@gmail.com and I will send them through to you.

Get your memorabilia sorted though I can tell you that, we plan to have the "time wall" idea set up in a couple of rooms and you can attach your Unit stuff to the wall, the more people who bring stuff the better.

Oh and the final part of the evening could be a bit special. If that is we can overcome a couple of health and safety hurdles. Most of you who were in the unit before 2000 won't be familiar with health and safety, but it is a way of stopping people having fun in case they then refuse to take responsibility for their actions when they get hurt. I know ridiculous isn't it but what can you do?

I can also  tell you we have 1829 quids as a balance in the account. So far we have paid out a deposit for the venue and we have paid $100 for the ticketing website. There are paypal fees to come out yet too.

What started as an idea during a few drunken conversations is looking like it could be quite an occasion. So thanks for all the help support and interest, roll on September.
Posted on Friday, March 29, 2013 | Categories:

Thursday 28 March 2013

Over 50


Actually none of then are as yet, but we have now sold 56 tickets. The furthest anyone is coming so far is from Botswanna (Frank Warwick). Guy Hilliard has been traced to Antartica so he has the furthest to come, we await developments with interest. 

Last night the organising committee had its first meeting at the rugby club, with me tuning in through a very patchy skype connection. It was so patchy I tuned out after a bit and let them get on with it. There are minutes being written up as we speak, I will let you know what occurred as soon as.

And here are a few pics from ancient history if you don't have facebook






Posted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories:

Monday 18 March 2013

Latest news


So things are going along nicely, you have bought 34 tickets and the word seems to be getting out. Don't wait to long before you buy a ticket, they might be in short supply before too long.

Here is a breakdown of who is responsible for which parts of the reunion at the moment. We need to get on with spending your money so we are assigning people to jobs, actually they are pretty much assigning themselves, which is rather marvellous. I think we have a good outline plan in place and a good team to deliver it, now for some detail.

John Warwick
Accounts

Ben Bellamy
Talking to the Press, Presentation to Peter, Group Liaison.

Toby Clark
Sorting out the venue and the food.

Dave Prince 
Ticketing, Website, Overview.

Ian Shaw
Goody Bags

Neil Davidson/Paul Young
Slide Show

James Prince
Final Closing Ceremony

Sean Ince 
Time Wall

Posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories:

Friday 15 March 2013

About the Event




The What

We Start by making a presentation to Peter, then, we get back together, talk about then and now. We eat, drink and say a collective thank you to Peter. Then we formally close the unit.

News just in, we now have an organising committee including currently, but not limited for too long I'm sure to:
Dave Prince, Ben Bellamy, John Warwick, Toby Clarke, Ian Shaw, Sean Ince, Andy Bond.

The Where

Hopefully many of you will start your Saturday doing the activities you used to do, or are still involved in. We will organise some of this, but hopefully some of you will organise and publicise your own sessions.
During the afternoon we will all meet up in Allestree for a presentation at 4.30. There will then be time for a quick change if you want before its off to Derby Rugby Club in Darley Abbey from 7pm onwards.

Itinerary

Morning - Activities
4.30pm  Presentation to Peter in Allestree
7.00pm -11.30pm Derby Rugby Club

This Includes

A barbeque or buffet depending on the weather.

We should be able to provide drinks both soft and alcoholic but how long the bar will be "free" for, will depend on the numbers attending.

A slide show (of course).

A time wall - bring your viking memorabilia and pin it up to see what we got done over those 40 years and in what order.

A formal closing ceremony, top secret at the moment, but let's burn out not fade away.

A goody bag including some unique and classic momentos to remember your evening and what little reaminans of your rapidly fading youth.

Where does my money go?
Firstly no-one who is organising is getting paid or taking a cut that wouldn't be right.

You will be getting the following:

The presentaton we make to Peter will be custom made.

Venue hire - we got a good price.

Food - looks like quality stuff, menu to follow when we confirm.

Drink  - again the more the merrier you will be.

Ticketing costs, depends how you pay but roughly 3 pounds per ticket.

The closing ceremony - the more people come the better this element becomes.

Goody bags - the more people who come the better these will be.

If as we hope there is a surplus, any monies left over will go to local charities and we will let you know who gets what and have some say in the process.

And Finally

We are limiting this to 200 hundred tickets at the moment. If the demand is there we will try and accomodate as many as we can, but no promises. There probably won't be another one of these, so book early to avoid dissapointment.
Posted on Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories:

Who are we looking for?




It would be good if someone would transcribe the 1968 -1993 membership list so that people could look for and contact those still MISSING IN ACTION.

WELL THEY HAVE!!!!!!!!

And it was a blood nightmare so make sure you use it! Cheers Ben






ADAMS Tristran
ALDERSON Michael
ALDHAM Richard
ALLEN Tim
ALLENSAN Stefan
ALLKINS Sean
Allsop Michael
ALTON John
ANNABEL Simon
ANTHONY Mark
ARCHER NICK
ARGUILLE Max
ARGUILLE Paul
ASH Anthony
ASH Garath
ASHMORE David
ATKINSON Rolland
BALDWIN Tim
BALL Richard
BAMSEY John
BARKER Darren
BARLOW Nicholas
BARNETT Gerald
BARRETT DAVID
BARRETT Graham
BASSFORD David
BATCHELOR Karl
BATCHELOR Mark
BAXTER Jeremy
BAYLISS M
BELL Andrew
BELL Ben
BELL Colin
BELLAMY Ben
BELLAMY Giles
BELLAMY Oliver
BENNETT Carl
BERWICK Peter
BILLINGTON Nick
BIRD Neil
BIRD Robert
BIRD Simon
BISHOP Kevin
BLAKE Chris
BLAKE Matthew
BLEAKMAN Adam
BLOUNT Kevin
BOLTON Andrew
BONART Kevin
BOND Andrew
BOND Paul
BOSTOCK David
BOTT Anthony
BOTT Peter
BOYES Adrian
BRADBROOK David
BRADBROOK Malcolm
BRADBURY Malcolm
BRADLEY Phillip
BRADSHAW Richard
BRAITHWAITE Edward
BRAITHWAITE Robert
BRIDGE David
BROOKE Simon
BROOME John
BROWN Stuart
BRYAN Steven
BUCKLEY Alistaire
BUCKLEY Paul
BUDD David
BULLIMORE David
BUNTING James
BUNTING Nicholas
BUNTING Thomas

BUSBY Adrian
BUSSELL Chris
BUSSELL Richard
BUTLER Nigel
BUTLER Tim
BUXTON Phillip
CARNELL Robert
CARTWRIGHT ian
CASTLEDINE Ian
CASTLEDINE Joel
CHADWICK Michael
CHADWICK Robert
CHILD Michael
CHRISTIE Nick
CLARKE Jason
CLARKE Bruce
CLARKE Ian
CLARKE Toby
CLAYTON Ian
CLIFFORD Stuart
COCKER Daniel
COLE Allan
COLE Robert
COLEBOURNE Paul
COLLARD lan
COLLICK Andrew
CONSTABLE Andrew
COOPER ' Graham
COOPER Michael
CORDON Edward
CORDEN Robert
COULSON Andrew
COWLEY David
COWLEY Robert
CRACKLES David
CRAWFORD Peter
CROME Andrew
CROSON Billy
CROSS Robin
DALLAS Tim
DANIELS Ian
DARBY Nick
DAVIDSON Neil
DAVIS Colin
DAVIS Richard
DAWES Phil
DEAN Andrew
DEARNLEY David
DENHAM Martin
DERBYSHIRE Ian
DERBYSHIRE Richard
DIVALL Darren
DODD James
DODD Paul
DOLPHIN Andrew
DOUGHTY John
DOWNIE Robert
DOWNIE Stuart
DUFFY James
DUTTON Clive
DUTTON Peter
EAGLEN David
EASON Robert
EDWARDS David
EDWARDS Jon
EDWARDS Mark
ELEY Craig
ELLIOTT Richard
ELLIOTT Simon
ENGLISH Andrew
ENGLISH John
EVANS James
FARNAN Justin
FARNSWORTH Mark
FARRER Andrew
FERGUSON Ian
FERGUSON Michael
FERGUSON Nicholas
FERGUSON Richard
FISHER Peter
FITZPATRICK Stuart
FLETCHER Ian
FL/NT Andrew
FLINT Henry
FORSTER Mark
FORSTER Neil
FOSS Domonic
FOSS 01iver
FOSTER Andrew
FOSTER Kevin
FOSTER Neil
FOX Tim
FRANCIS James
FRANCIS Richard
FRY Andrew
FUTTER Gerald
GAHHAGAN Mark
GAZZARD James
GIBSON Mark
GILBERT Sam
GILES Steven
GILL David
GILLIBRAND Clive
GILLIBRAND Simon
GILMORE Simon
GLAISTER Andrew
GODWARD Adrian
GOLDING Oaniel
GOODALL Andrew
GOODMAN Jeremy
GOULD Alan
GRANT Robert
GRATION David
GREATOREX Chris
GREAVES Richard
GREEN Richard
GREGORY Ian
GRIFFIN lan
GRIFFITHS Andrew
GRIMSHAN lan
GUEST Chris
GUILDFORD Ian
HADAWAY John
HADAWAY Paul
HADFIELD Mark
HAGUES John
HALL Jeremy
HALL Michael
HALSEY Malcolm
HANNAH Tim
HANSON Paul
HANSON Robert
HARDINGHAM Peter
HARDINOWAM Sean
HARDY Simon
HARM John
HARMAN Mark
HARPER Nigel
HARRISON Andrew
HART Anthony
HARTLE Tim
PLUMMER Anthony
HARVEY Julian
HAYES Neil
HEARNE Kevin
HEATH John
HENDERSON mark
HEWITT Carl
HEWITT Chris
HILLYARD Guy
HILTON Tim
HINDS Jason
H0BSON Ian
HODSON Simon
HOLLAND Jonathon
HOLLAND Steven
HOLMES Roger
HOLMES Steven
HONEY Malcolm
HOON Mark
HOON Robert
HOPKINS Brian
HOPKINS Geoff
HOPWELL Craig
HOPWELL Dean
HORSLEY Philip
HORTON Geoff
HOUGH David
HOUSE Simon
HOWARD Ian
HUGHES David
HUGHES Richard
HURD Chris
HYOMES Adrian
INCE Mark
INCE Sean
JENNINGS Paul
JONES Michael
JORDAN Neil
JOYCE Thomas
KENNELLY Brian
KENNELLY Michael
KENT Andrew
KILBY David
KILPATRICK David
KILPATRICK Tim
KIRK Nicholas
KIRKMAN Andrew
KITCHEN Nicoelas
KITLEY Richard
KNIGHT Stephen
LAMB Gordon
LANDON Andrew
LANDRAGIN Mark
LANE Ian
LAWRENCE Peter
LAWRENCE Robert
LAWTON Clive
LEE Graham
LEE Jonno
LENDERYOU Mark
LEVER Stuart
LODGE Derrek.
LODGE Stephen
LOWE Martin
LUGG Martin
MACDONALD Robert
MACKERVOY Andrew
MACKERVOY Tim
MACKLIN Andrew
MACKLIN Ian
MAFHAN Paul
MALTBY Anthony
MANNING Oliver
MARKHAM Simon
MARPLES Andrew
MARSDEN Adrian
MARTIN Paul
MATTHEWS Steven
MAYNARD Steven
MCCARTHY Pater
MCCHESNEY lan
MCCOMBE David
MCELROY Selwyn
MCELROY Simon
MCRAE Paul
MEGGITT Paul
MELLOR Stephan
MELROSE Steven
MEMMORY Jean-M
MIDDLETON John
MILLINGTON Richard
MILLS Chris
MITCHELL Peter
MITCHELL Steven
MONK Andrew
MONK Simon
MOON Ian
MORGAN Jonathan
MORLEY Martin
MORRRELL Nick
MORRIS David
MORRIS Barnaby
MORRIS Matthew
MOXON peter
MURDOCH Alan
MURDOCH Andrew
MURFIN David
MURFIN John
MURFIN Stephen
MURRAY Stephen
NEWCOMB Nick
NEWMAN Russel
NEVE Robin
NICHOLS Tim
O'DONNELL Richard
OAKES Tim
OLIVER Struan
OLSON Paul
ORRIDGE Simon
OSBORNE Kevin
OSBORNE Martin
OUTRAM James
OWEN Gareth
PAGE David
PAGE Graham
PALMER Adrian
PAPE Chris
PARKIN David
PATON Phil
PATTERSON Brian
PAYNE Matthew
PEET Mark
PETRIE Andrew
PHELAN Sean
PLANT Malcolm
POPPLE Stuart
POTTER David
POTTERTON John
POTTS Jon
POULSON Andrew
POUNDALL Ashley
POWER Jeremy
POYSER Robert
PRATT Adrian
PRESTON Michael
PRICE Martin
PRINCE David
SPENCER Paul
WRAGG Johnathan
PRINCE James
QUARTERMAINE Martin
RADFORD Duncan
RADFORD Martin
RAINBOW Steven
RAINSFORD Mark
RAMSDEN Travis
RATCLIFF Andrew
RATCLIFF Steven
RAWLINGS Chris
RAWLINGS TIM
RAWSON Martin
READ Paul
READER James
REDFERN Nigel
REECE Steven
RHOWBOTHAM Kevin
RICE Chris
RILEY Simon
ROBERTS David
ROBERTSON Paul
ROBINSON Lee
ROBINSON Leslie
ROBINSON Phillip
ROBINSON Ralph
ROBINSON Tim
ROBISON Michael
RODGERS Ian
ROGERS Neil
ROLLINS Simon
RUSH Daren
SADLER John
SADLER Martin
SALMON David
SALMON Peter
SANDLES Neil
SAVAGE Stephen
SCOTT Ian
SCOTT Mark
SEDDON David
SENIOR Andrew
SEPHTON Craig
SHAW Ian
SHAW Neil
SHENTON Craig
SHEPHERD Micheal
SHRIMPLING Paul
SIL0 Mark
SIMMONS Kevin
SIMPKIN Andrew
SIMPSON Gavin
SIMPSON Lester
SINCLAIR Craig
SLATER David
SMALLWOOD Ian
SMITH Andrew
SMITH J
SMITM Jonathon
SMITH Matthew
SMITH Paul
SMOUT Mike
SMOUT Peter
SMOUT Richard
STABLES Richard
STACE Matthew
STAFFORD James
STARBUCK Robert
STATHAM Phillip
STATON Michael
STATON Nigel
STEELE Roger
STEVENS David
STREET Glynn
STURGESS Roy
SUTTON Edwin
SUTTON Rolland
TATLOW David
TAYLOR Chris
TAYLOR Roger
THELWALL Robert
THEOBALD Simon
THOMPSON Luc
THOMPSON Raymond
THORPE David
THORPE James
THURMAN John
TIDESWELL Andrew
TODD Matthew
TOWNES Leo
TOWNES Rodderick
TREVETT Andrew
TRUMAN Rory
TURNBULL Mark
TUXFORD GUY
VALE John
VALE Peter
WAKEFIELD David
WALKER Roger
WALPOLE Guy
WALTERS Mark
WARBRICK Paul
WARD Andrew
WARD James
WARWICK Frank
WARWICK John
WATERFIELD Colin
WATSON Huw
WEBB Harvey
Posted on Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories: