Yay! I finally have a reason to post to the main page!
For everyone who’s interested, I’ve now added the photos from the Mendip day trips 2 weeks ago to this website. You can see them here… Thanks to John K for taking them!
Could anyone who is planning to take photos on the trip this weekend to South Wales let me know please? It’ll be great to put up as many of them here as possible…!!
Also, any photos of the Pub Golf Social (Wednesday) would be much appreciated!
See you all on Friday…
The RUCC Social Secretariat are pleased to announce that the club will be holding the fifth inaugural pub golf event on Tuesday 16th October. Players will be requested to assemble in the College Arms at 7.00 p.m ready for teeing off. Second hole will no doubt be the Upin Arms at Cemetery Junction but after that your guess is as good as mine. If you are planning on being late (in which case your chances of winning are significantly handicapped) your best bet is to contact event commissioner and referee Andy K.
There really ought to be an award for silliest trousers or anyone caught in the rough.
In other news I have been alerted by outside contacts to more important YouTube footage of our esteemed leader. Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you the Mendip Formation Dancers:
Interested? Come and have a chat and a piece of confectionery with us. We’ll be the ones in the fashionable leisure wear, grinning. You can also look us up on Facebook. If you can’t make it please contact Andy Kuszyk should you want to join.
We’ve just been to the Hidden Earth conference in Tewksbury, and stood out. Some brief photos are here. Darth Vader could sadly only make the Sunday as he had importaat Imperial business to attend to on the Saturday. An ever so brief snippet of our esteemed leader throwing shapes to the blues music at the legendary ‘stomp’ can be seen below:
John K and I were in the pub the other day saying that it’s about time we made another film. ‘Die Hard 4.0 – Service Pack 1’ was mentioned.
I mention this as the club once had an illustrious history in this area, with its own film making unit. To prove it I’ve just posted the club’s 1997 remake of ‘Aliens’ – ‘ALIENSS!’ online. It can be accessed, together with an explanation via my blog.
And amateur filmmaking is so much easier these days…
By the way if anyone wants a lift to Hidden Earth Andy K & myself are going for Reading on the Friday night.
Just to let you know that while school’s out an elite hardcore of caving club glitterati (well me, and assorted Johns) will be lounging around the Upin Arms on Mondays. This will be followed by an inadvertent swing into Up The Junction, no doubt against everyone’s will. All welcome.
In a final attempt to abuse my position as ex-RUCC webmaster (and best of luck Patrick) I give you a youtube proto-classic, Speleolabs ‘Breakfast In A Tube’. This stars me, Andy Rumming, Tom Foord and some bad liquidising action, and was our attempt to come up with a nutritious and portable breakfast solution for the busy caver on the move.
This product was revealed at Hidden Earth 2005 and for some reason never caught on. I’m guessing it was due to the strong aftertaste of congealed fat with a hint of brown sauce and tea…
Yes its that time of year again. Time for the Reading Beer Festival, a chance for us to drink more than is good for our selves with the excuse of trying to taste all the beers, ciders and wines. I know normally we dont need an excuse but its good to have one now and again.
The plan is to meet this Thursday in the back of beyond at 4, its is because some people want to get there when as soon as it opens. I’m not going to say who wants to go so early but you know who you are, don’t you Jack and Jon. If you can’t make it that early don’t worry you can meet people in there when you arrive., and I’m sure you won’t be the only one who misses the 4 o’clock start.
More information can be found here, and directions can be found here, though they are not the best.
See you there
We’ve had a revolution and a new committee have taken over. Ok so I lied as we’ve just had the AGM and elected a new committee, well we forced them to do it, we have the photos. Andy tried to resist so we had to make an example of him.
The new committee are
President: Andy
Secretary: Helen
Treasurer: Jon M
Tackle Master: J
Social Sec: Ben
Webmaster: Patrick
Surveys and Access: Jo
Chief Lamo: Nikki
Freshers fayre co-ordinator: Anne-Marie
International relations: Amy
Inter-club relations: Charlotte
Inter-club relations (away correspondent): Max
Food sec: John K
Navigation: Jon W.
(Note for former users: the photo of Andy posted replaces a previous one of him wearing a sock, but not in the usual place. John K would like to apologise for any distress that this may have caused. Paul).
Reading University Caving Club 
