Competitors .. Start your engines !

[Jaws]

Only just got rid of the family !! Sorry for the lat start folks....


Sooo, are you all ready to rock and roll ?
Spread sheet set up here and clues all lined up.

One thing I found last night.. PMing is not a great idea !!
There were so many posts I had to constantly empty the PM box !
If you could email me ( straightfour@aol.com it would be better all round...


Your first clue then..

Go 25 miles south south east of brum and find the Bairds lair for our starting point

 

[Jaws]

Come on guys and gals.... We only have four peeps competing at the moment !
Took me three hours to set the game up !!!!

You can join in at any time...

 

[reefer]

would like to join in..but its a bit late for me on a sunday..things to do and winding down for shuteye
if the next ones next weekend..can we kick it off in the afternoon please

 

[Murt]

Im up for it.

Will email IF I get any answers..

 

[Supabird1100]

Well..............

I've stalled on the starting grid......and am having terrible trouble getting going again !!!!!:} :} Are we sure these places are no more than 10 miles apart ????:dunno:

Anyone got away from the starting point yet ?????

 

[skippy]

second stop has me stumped,, bollox

 

[trophychap]

Sorry Supa,

Yes but not without some difficulty! Stuck in one place for ages, then again. The first part of the first clue is iffy, mate!

Sorry, of the second clue ...

 

[gypsy]

anyone else near swindon yet?

 

[skippy]

Swindon ? I'm hardly out of Birmingham yet as I'm having some technical difficulties with Billy Gates wonderfull mapping software and multi map aint much help either:bang: :bang: :bang:

 

[Codbasher]

:dunno: :dunno:

Have i missed something? Whats going on.
















If its invite only............................sorry$%3un

 

[EdCBRCastrol]

Gypsy
Is that where some slightly rude name places are to be found??

 

[skippy]

Codbasher go here and read thread idoor rally then mail Jaws

Originally posted by Codbasher
:dunno: :dunno:

Have i missed something? Whats going on.
















If its invite only............................sorry$%3un

 

[Jaws]

Originally posted by Codbasher
:dunno: :dunno:

Have i missed something? Whats going on.

If its invite only............................sorry$%3un

LOL !!!!! ya daft bugger.. Invite only ? With this lot !! More chance of flying mate.

Have a look at


Should explain it all.....This thread

And it aint too late to join in.... It all kicks off again Monday evening at about 7ish

Tonight we had 10 people going at it hammer and tongs, and a certain Me Castrol has crept slightly in to the lead ( again ! )

 

[EdCBRCastrol]

Skippy
Try just using a large good quality road atlas, thats all i have been using and it seems to work pretty well.
I never could get on with autoroute maps and directions!!

 

[trophychap]

Good roadmaps -trouble is, Ed

... we haven't got one!* - which is severely hampering our progress this evening. Pete just follows his nose and although we sometimes go 'the pretty way' - we always get there, usually pretty much on time too.

He did produce an ancient OS map of Cornwall tonight, and he knows where ALL the carp fisheries in England are; ergo why does he need a ROAD MAP?

Jenny :}

(*We've got a very good one of France though so can we have the next one there please?) LOL!

 

[EdCBRCastrol]

Every time i've been lost in the past i have stopped and bought a nice big road atlas, so i have got phookin loads of them cos i always seem to have left it indoors the next time i am lost LOL

 

[skippy]

I'm finding a few gaps in the mapping software which is a good thing as I'll be using it for the 4 Points challenge in June and if there are any problems now would be a good time to know about it, the large atlas aproach seems to be suiting you well at the moment as you are leading again :}

Originally posted by EdCBRCastrol
Skippy
Try just using a large good quality road atlas, thats all i have been using and it seems to work pretty well.
I never could get on with autoroute maps and directions!!

 

[ianrobbo1]

boy am I getting pissed!!!

:cry: it doesn't matter what I do I just cant seem to find some place names, I'm using a 4 year old AA map, and some of the damn places just dont appear on it, I've been using a 10 year old BP map to reference the other, and it's amazing how much is missing from both, so I'm off tommorrow to go buy another bit more!! up to date one,:cry:

Swindon!!! morelike the outskirts of brum,:B :B

If I flew a B52, I'd probly miss the target,:}

 

[skippy]

Don't worry mate I'm using high tech, state of the art microcrap GPS mapping software and having the same problems ...... dosn't bode well for the 4 points then :}

 

[Supabird1100]

Think Yourselves Lucky.................

I sat up until 11-45 last night......with a 3 miles to the inch atlas.... a pair of mapping dividers....a navigational plotter...and a magnifying glass.

Still didn't get away from the starting point !!!!!!:B :B

Feck it.....I'll stick to what I know I can do, which is ......Errr....Errrr.... Errrrr:h