Dandy AGM Rally 2005 (Back Room Bits)

            If you could ignore the fact that there had to be an AGM, you would be able to notice that this rally was a real jigsaw. Putting all the pieces together was a masterpiece of organisation by the rally supremo, Chas. White.

            The site was promising, the facilities hopeful and the picture was complete. Then some of the pieces went missing: the gents' toilets, half the marquee and a huge refrigerator, to name but a few. Undaunted, Chas. redrew these pieces as "the old ladies' loos", a D.I.Y. tent extension and, begged and borrowed, campers' fridges. Then came the team to put it all together. Chas.and a few pressed men sorted out the hardware and Senya gathered a catering crew. But then, alas, some more missing pieces. Where were the bread rolls? Oh, they are still in the supermarket. Can you deliver them? Yes, but we don't know where you are! Luckily the local vicar's daughter knows where the campsite is so the delivery is made on time.  

            After the meeting the marquee was cleared for the next part of the puzzle to be put together. This was the tricky bit; how to fit 120 people with their assorted tables and chairs into one cohesive dining room. Again, with gently marshalling, Chas. soon had this arranged, along with the orderly movement, table by table, to the grand buffet in The Pavillion. Here the Serving Sisters of Senya provided us with our choice from the attractive selection of delicious foods for all tastes. The puddings, of course, one is not allowed to mention; too naughty, but nice. Then followed perhaps the hardest part of the puzzle, trying to put Dandy folk together with some serious quiz games (so many 'silly answer' specialists).

            All this, naturally, followed the morning's events of the Dandylympics. All part of the Grand Jigsaw. Unfortunately, the writer cannot describe this spectacle of personal achievement because he bunked off to Retford, to an auction at his toy train club (how sad! I hear you cry).  

            Athough many people joined in with various amounts of help, the Gold Medals must surely go to Chas. and Senya for absorbing all the planning and worry of this masterpiece of a rally. Thank you both very much for your extreme hard work. And thank you also to the ladies and gentlemen who gave their help. And the missing pieces of the puzzle? Well, they are promised to be found for us, by the site owner John Hardman, for next year. Now all that is needed is for more of us to help put the puzzle together for 2006.

            H.A.S.