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16Greetings all limescale in the electric kettle that is Super Drooper!
Fresh from one of the best weathered Scottish New Years since the evolution of land dwelling vertebrates, twenty two Droopers are busily recovering from all that manic Munro bagging, celidh visiting and Irn Bru abuse. If you were there, are your dreams full of visions of that kitchen or the frozen bog? Knock back the cheap whisky and look forward to Torridon 97/98. If you weren't then IT WAS ACE!
However the New Year also brings us to the source (scourge) of Drooper drivel, more outdated yak jokes, more skid risk information and maybe some more info about trips thrown in between. So read on and get some counseling.
The Next Trip 31st Jan - 2nd Feb the Wicklow Hills by invitation of Mr. Church and Friends
It's Drooper on Tour Time Again, so if you've got enough Air Miles, contacts in the aviation industry or if daddy knows Richard Branson, get yerself over to Dublin for either a hut trip to the Wicklows or a bizarre camping expedition to a Dublin back garden. Details have yet to be finalised so please contact either Steve or MJ (in Lichfield) after the 17th Jan. Getting flights or bus tickets won't be a problem, we just need a bit of coordination when we get there.
Richard, Judith, Clare, Donagh, Irene, Mary Robinson..... Beware!
In case Dublin is too expensive, time or Guinness consuming then an alternative trip to North Wales will be arranged for the weekend of the 14th/15th....please get in touch with Steve for more details.
The Grand 1997 Drooper Trip Plan - so get yer calendars and diaries oot fer t' komodo dragons
The same tried and tested, completely random one trip per month system will operate as last year. We haven't actually booked anything yet (apart from Torridon 97/98), but hopefully we should be able to keep to our well sorted plan. The other news is that Roystar is the new Hut Booker, so he can fill up his lost sharking time with chatting up hut secretaries.
Jan 31- Feb 2 Ireland
Feb 14 - Feb 16 North Wales extra trip subject to demand
Feb 28 - Mar 2 South Wales Ystradfellte
Mar 21 - Apr 6 Madcap Skiing Escapade to Stranda, Norway more details to
follow
May 2 - May 5 Bank Holiday trip to Glen Etive
May 23 - May 26 Bank Holiday Surfs Up Again Trip to Bude
June 27 - June Somewhere in Northumberland
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July 25 - July 27 Capel Curig
Aug 22 - Aug 25 Grange in Borrowdale
Sep 26 -Sep 28 Yorkshire "let's pretend we're cavers" trip
Oct 24 - Oct 26 The maybe we can get Bryn Hafod at last Trip to Bryn
Hafod, Mid Wales
Nov 21 - Nov 23 Coatmore Mill, North Wales
Dec 12 - Dec 14 Xmas Party Trip to Gradbach, Peak District
If anybody has got any ideas for further trips then please get in touch with the committee, via your nearest Dept. of Agriculture Scrapie Sickness Emergency Centre (or the addresses underneath)
Dr. Mike Says - Giz Yer Dosh
£10 for employed, £7.50 for students/doleys/gecko lizards. We need the money ASAP so we can send off the 1997 protection money to the BMC. So, mortgage yer paddling pools and write out those cheques. If you still owe Mike any money for previous trips, pay up or else Mike will send MJ round wearing lime green lycra cycling shorts and marigold gloves, armed with extra virgin olive oil.
Cheap(er) Outdoor Gear
MJ has become a member of Stone (Staffs) Outdoor Cooperative in order to get any cheap gear on behalf of Droopers .....(being a financial tight arse he wont be purchasing any for himself) so get in touch soonish if there are any requirements....
Special Drooper Get Rich Scheme
If anybody is interested in sleeping with Lady Di/Fergie/All the Spice Girls/MJ then please get in touch with the committee who will pass on details to Max Clifford.
SDMCC Newsletter no. 16, 9 January 1997
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