Canungra 2011

Thanks Banno for booking the Canungra weekend,

We had such a good time last year that we would love to be there again this year, so if your keeping a list for this event please put us down for the Friday and Saturday night. As to suggestions, happy to repeat all the great ideas of last years such as catering, damper night, loved Trevor as Santa, the raffle ticket table, and of course GRIDDLES, trivia questions etc etc etc..... yep count us in please.

Cheers retro64

G' day Trendsetters

Thanks Banno for getting the ball rolling ( Your the man ) the date is good again ( If it is not broken...let's not fix it ) I have a few question's that i feel we need to debate most would agree that the catering went well last year, so do we go with the same again do we use the same caters again if so they may need to be booked soon. Last year Lyn and dianne worked behind the scene's.......and what a ripper of a job they did . So if we go this way again.....who is gunna pick up the bat this time. Regards the dosse's

I was going to write a speel however 'CHEEKY BUGGER" says it all.

Like l said CHEEKY BUGGER.
More than happy to help if this is the way everyone would like to go.
Sorry did you want me to post that PM you sent me that you were more than happy to do the washing up after?. Your a living God.

Banno, Banno, Banno,

Hi all,

Well my thoughts on this subject is as follows:-

I thoroughly enjoyed both styles of menu over the last two years i.e. camp ovens and caterers. But I think the camp ovens ended up being very unfair on those few gents and ladies (approx 15) that ended up doing all the hard graft so over 100 people could eat.

Whereas with the caterers, they came in, prepared & cooked the food (which was great) and served everything and left any leftovers for us. All we had to do was set up the tables and chairs and be there for when the caterers arrived. So my vote goes to having the caterers in again. The feedback from everyone was very positive, so I would imagine that we would all be happy to go that way again.

Those that want to use the camp overns can always do a bit of a cook up on the Friday night.

Banno - As for Lyn and I organising it.? I think we did our stint last year and now it is someone elses turn. But I would suggest that only one person does it and that, that person be someone that has (or opens) a bank account that can be used only for payments from members. I found last year that with Lyn getting the PM's (also sometimes me) and me getting the money (sometimes Lyn) and not getting full payment info from people as well as Lyn and I needing to email each other it was much harder to reconcile the numbers and money.

It will be much easier this year for whoever does it, as i still have the Excel document I used that details everyones info and I can pass that on.

In the meantime, I am happy to contact the caterers now and make a booking, confirm rates etc etc. So atleast we know that is done. I will come back with rates later on, then you can all make the decision on whether we definately go ahead.

Des & Kel, thanks for your offer of helping out, i'm sure that we will come up with a list of jobs closer to the time and will be glad of the help.

Banno, i'm glad that your arms have bones in them, the thought of your body being all wobbly is too much for my brain at this time of the morning.

Luv Di

Hi Banno,

Will be out for most of the day, so will email the caterers now.

Thanks for the offer of collecting the money. That's very nice of you, but you and Joey already do enough for us every trip with making the griddle cakes. So hopefully someone else will step up to the plate and we can spread the load.

Luv Di

Hi all
I'm happy to do the money side of things into a separate bank a/c for the catering at Canungra.

I'll send you a PM Di with my email address in case you haven't got it, & you can send me your Excel s/sheet & contact details/cost etc for the caterers.

No worries

Cathie

Hi all SEQVVers

If there’s anyone else out there who REALLY wants to do the job of money collecting, please feel free to put your hand up.

Of course we all haven’t really decided as a group, whether we will cater at Canungra or revert to old ways as yet.

Putting my 2 bobs in, I preferred the camp oven thing but realise it’s too impractical to feed stacks of people (probably more than 100 people now) & just too bl..dy hot at that time of the year. So I say, catering is the way to go, but hey, lets discuss it once Di gets the lowdown on cost etc & passes on the info. I’m still happy to collect the money & be in touch with caterers etc (as we live close to G Coast) if that’s what we decide. Yes Banno I’m pretty sure it’s not rocket science too!

Rob’s suggestion is that we do a Camp Oven Xmas in July (maybe in 2012) at another venue than Crows Nest, but one that has a good camp kitchen & fires, & that we all search out places for that & discuss the possibilities such as, everyone preparing their own veges (I’m sure 100 people don’t want 15 people to do all the work), or people offering to bring desserts etc instead of veges, whatever! It’s great to be able to learn these skills from other people, like how big to cut veges, how hot to make fire etc etc when you're doing camp ovens.

Sutcac has been to a great place on a lake somewhere, fires etc allowed, so that might be a possibility for next July 2012, or even for this Sept.

Re Giveaway at Canungra, I agree with Lisa, one ticket should be given out for each gift. We’re getting so many people now, we can’t expect Ilse to continue giving masses of stuff for this. I think if there’s lots of stuff left over after everyone has had a go, then organisers can pull folded names(of all the people present at Canungra) out of a hat to have a 2nd go.

I spoke to Lyn about a game. Everyone gets a random ticket for each item they’ve contributed. I think it would be fun to get the name of a caravan brand, Millard, Arrow, Don etc. I’ve checked & there’s over 180 caravan brands. People sit in a circle around the table. The 1st name drawn, eg Millard gets to pick an item off table, then 2nd name drawn, eg Arrow gets to pick an item off table or steal item from 1st person, Millard. Then Millard has to pick another item off table. As game goes on, 10th person (for eg Deejay) gets to either pick item from table or steal an item from any one of the previous 9 players(who have to keep their item on display in front of them until the game is over).
Only rules are that you’d have to limit no of times that an item can be stolen to about 2 times before item becomes property of the last/2nd stealer, with such a large group.
2nd rule is that a person can’t steal back item from the person who just stole it from them in their turn but they can re-steal same item in a future turn.
3rd rule is that there’s a time limit on each turn so it is fast moving!
It seems complicated but after a couple of turns, it does make sense & is VERY funny to play once people get the hang of stealing! Let’s discuss it before Canungra! If we want to do it, I’ll volunteer to do the “calling” as I’ve done it for Xmas groups many times, & everyone really has a great time, especially if it’s fast moving! Just think Di, you would have been able to steal back that jockey wheel! But then someone else could have stolen it from you! If there’s stuff left over, then see paragraph above!

Now that really is my 2 bobs worth!

Cathie

Hi dosse and Ilse, I agree with all you said re Ilse table give away is always an enjoyable event. ;D
Lets be honest we all peruse around the table thinking ooh i hope I get that or whow just what I need. One ticket per person is fair.

I always felt the trivial pursuit was fun, last year the teenagers table won,plus- one (old fart).

Nibbles were a little light on. Perhaps we bring our own nibbles to place on our tables.
Same as fruit. Or mention to caterers a little more nibblies please as we felt there was not enough last year.
cheers sue

Gidday Kel, did you see that Cathie said if you want to collect the money that you could take the job on.
You don't want me to publish that pm you sent me now do you??

Banno

Hi All,

Well we had a fun weekend away at Lennox Head this weekend.

Whilst there Jacqui (Bob& Jacqui) came up with the great suggestion of us having another fancy dress night on one of the weekends away. After much thought and discussion it was decided that Canungra would be the best venue (larger group, get together dinner on site, therefore easier to dress up and not have to venture out into the public for those that are a bit shy).

Lots of themes were suggested and discussed. We finally thought that as we are all interested in Vintage Caravans we should go with the theme of anything beginning with "V" or "C". After a little bit of thought we managed to come up with heaps of ideas starting with those letters, so everyone should be able to come up with something ok.

So what do you all think, is everyone game to join is the fun???

Luv Di

Hi all

Really looking forward to Canungra again this year. The first year we were a little shy, the second year we were getting into the spirit and this year we just can't wait!!

We were happy with the catering, but as we were the last table up to the buffet Phil was sad :-[that he could only have one potato.

Phil is looking forward to seeing some "Very Courageous" fancy dressers

Louise