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What did you do for the weekend?

 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #1
Not that I'm nosy or anything, but I'm often curious about what you lot get up to when you're not out in your motorhomes!

So here's a thread where you can tell us what you've been up to!

A bit of gardening perhaps? Painting the house? Out on the lash with the lads? Sitting in your motorhome reading old copies of MMM maybe...?

What have you been doing?
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 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #2
The highlight of my weekend.. Greece, the play in Cork Opera House with my mum and daughter. Really good production and well worth the trip. :D
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 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #3
We managed to get away for the weekend :-) loughkey forest park Friday night and lough rynn on Saturday night :up:
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 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #4
As I wasn't away in the Motorhome I opted for something completely different. I drank Carlsberg in the house.

Seriously, son home for a couple of weeks so we had a bit of a celebration :) - usually when at home I do those things that should of been done weeks previous :-/

Julie as normal goes to work, hotels have to stay open.
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 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #5
We went to Midleton Saturday night, had a lovely meal at the Farm Gate , had a few drinks and a sing song at Murphy's pub near the Aire where we stayed the night.
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 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #6
I spent Saturday afternoon working on our oul ride-on lawn mower. With the mowing season well and truly here, our cranky old mower wasn't too happy to be brought out of her winter slumber. Every year theres something to be done to it (the joys of running old machines) and this year was no exception.

I guess you could say I got value for money from the drive-chain sprocket... :devil:


The damned thing was clicking for a while (year or two :whistle: ) but it eventually gave up completely... Surprisingly, Atkins had new parts in stock.

On Sunday, I had my carpentry hat on. My son is involved in the "F1 in schools competition and I'm very proud of him. www.f1inschools.ie His team won the regional Junior competition in Cork a few weeks ago. The national finals is on up in Dublin Castle in a few weeks. With a tiny budget, their presentation was a bit lacking compared to the other teams, so I volunteered to build them a display stand...

Here's the scale model we made from cardboard first. I'm scaling it up to MDF now... The poor camper isn't getting a look in at the moment.

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 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #7
Well I put a small patio down, fitted a gas system to the MH as well as a set of tyres and took delivery of a Droidbox and played with that and then took swmbo to Broughshane and a meal in the Thatch yesterday, glad to be back at work for a rest :lol:
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Well I put a small patio down, fitted a gas system to the MH as well as a set of tyres and took delivery of a Droidbox and played with that and then took swmbo to Broughshane and a meal in the Thatch yesterday, glad to be back at work for a rest :lol:




Did ya tackle the steps yet :whistle: :whistle:
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 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #9
FFS give me a chance :lol:


I did do a dummy run and dry build them to have an idea, and run out of blocks and bricks. I will have to get to it as i took away the old rotten wooden step and burnt it so now you can fall off the deck :lol:
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 ·  Posted: 07.04.2014  ·  #10
We know all about F1 for schools in this house! Bryan used to do it with the kids in the last school he taught in & he used to borrow things from my school to use! Well done to your son & his team for doing so well!
On Saturday I brushed the patio & cleaned between the slabs with a wire brush thingy and Bryan built a new fence at the back of our house, of course that means I will have to paint it over Easter!
On Sunday we went out in the MH in the afternoon to Portaferry & home by Donaghadee, noticed quite a few MHs in it last night as we were going past!
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 ·  Posted: 08.04.2014  ·  #11
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We managed to get away for the weekend :-) loughkey forest park Friday night and lough rynn on Saturday night :up:


Where is Lough Rynn?


Us: Usual running and racing between sport and music Saturday morning. Then headed to Ballina in the camper. Cycle in Cong on way home Sunday. Friday is too far back to remember but I'm fairly sure it wasn't all that exciting.

This weekend however, we are off to Wales!
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 ·  Posted: 08.04.2014  ·  #12
Lough rynn is 2 miles from mohill village co Leitrim, out the drumlish road, good spot if you are into fishing :up:
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 ·  Posted: 11.05.2014  ·  #13
I had a LONG and tiring weekend of lawn mowing, hedge cutting, power washing, tree cutting, etc. I've been neglecting the house & garden over the last couple of months and it was starting to show.

The closing hours of today were spent stripping down the V8 engine from the camper and getting it ready to send out to the local machine shop for some work.

I'm tired now, but completely enjoying the cold bottle of beer in my aching hand!

Back to the office tomorrow for a rest... :lol:

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 ·  Posted: 11.05.2014  ·  #14
We have a load of people staying with us who are over for the MCCNI national rally. Was great craic last night.

Finbarr (darkvalley) was also up seeing the Giro D'Italia, great to meet him and he is pretty damn hot on the guitar.

P.S. Don't tell him that I said this. But guess who slept in on Saturday morning and missed the Giro go through Antrim? after coming all that way :lol: shhhhh ;)
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 ·  Posted: 11.05.2014  ·  #15
Took sons car to mot, it passed then was made to go shopping but managed to get to maplin and B&q for man stuff then a few odd jobs about the house, talk about bored.com
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 ·  Posted: 12.05.2014  ·  #16
had a great weekend in motor home at a friends house in rich hill
watched the giro passing through on Sunday morning
the atmosphere was amazing
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so I volunteered to build them a display stand...
Here's the scale model we made from cardboard first. I'm scaling it up to MDF now... The poor camper isn't getting a look in at the moment.




My son and the team had a great time up in Dublin castle, even got a look in on the 6 O'clock News. They came away with a nice trophy for the fastest car but they didn't win the overall prize. Ah well, there's always next year. :devil: I'm glad to have done my bit. The teacher sent me a photo of the display stand after they painted it up and put some information up on it... They missed a couple of hints I made about putting their logo on the lower light panels, but overall they didn't do too bad...



That's my lad in the back right corner - :D

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which one is mini Blag?


The handsome young man in the top right corner... :D
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We both worked over the weekend although I managed to see the bikes in Templepatrick , it was a great sight to see pity about the weather . Today John is busy in the garden , between mowing the lawns and power washing .I am keeping him on the right path as he can get distracted every time he goes into the garage .Looking forward to pier 36 tomorrow night . :* :up:
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I married a couple on Sunday in the Holiday Inn in Belfast. I bet they won't forget that for a while.
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I married a couple on Sunday in the Holiday Inn in Belfast. I bet they won't forget that for a while.


Well done Jack. :up: :up: :up:
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Very few guys if the cloth will marry folk on a Sunday and even fewer will marry folk in a hotel. I would never refuse to marry anyone with a Christian ceremony.
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Very few guys if the cloth will marry folk on a Sunday and even fewer will marry folk in a hotel. I would never refuse to marry anyone with a Christian ceremony.


Jack whats the problem with getting married on a Sunday?
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