Virtual Newark - 30-31 May 2020

Please post about your activities during the virtual Newark meet here. Photographs, videos and whatever else you're up can be posted together in this thread.

This year you can take part from wherever you are due to the power of video conferencing application ZOOM. Zoom is available for Mac, Windows & Linux, Apple & Android & can also be used via web browser.

The Zoom online session will be open from noon to midnight UK (BST) on 30 May. To check the time at Virtual Newark click here

The Zoom session will be here [link expired] No ID code or password required. When you join please edit your name to reflect your name on the forum so we know who you are!

Look forward to meeting you here or on Zoom over the weekend.

Anything else, particularly relating to the Zoom meeting / video conference / screen sharing can be posted on Ross's other Virtual Newark thread, here:-

Virtual Newark 2020 Zoom Test Thread

Cheers...

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OK, just to get the ball rolling, we've got ourselves set up and getting into the usual Newark activities:-

 

Have a great time, and keep up the hydration .......

 

Breakfast sorted. Black tea & egg banjos.

 

Well, I’m on cooking duty, it’s Saturday night, and I’ve been working my @rse off all day, but here are a few photos:

A visitation of Glorias (not all) and a few ring-ins.


















Heater’s busted, so out comes the kero:







Cheers

Tony

 

My broadband is f&cking pathetic, so ir will be hard to join Zoom.

Tony

 

Very nice Tony!

 

Its good to see some of your collection inside your house and shed to .Bob.

 

Bob, lots of shed work and collection sorting going on... about two more months, I reckon.

Cheers

Tony

 

Well, I have to say we've got a good pitch and the weather is hot and sunny although with a bit of a breeze. The facilities are much improved this year and much closer to the campsite too. No queues at all and I could be in there as long as I liked without some irritating bu&&er rattling on the handle - even at 3.30 in the morning! Decent phone signal, too.

Anyway, my breakfast was so late, I didn't even dare to call it brunch:-


Followed by a mug of coffee and a slab of No.1 daughter's lemon drizzle cake:-

Nice...

The stove I'm using is a Primus 1S:or which has lain in a flowerbed for at least 5-6 years. I pulled it out of the undergrowth and it lit itself after priming using the old fuel which was still in the tank. Absolutely no fettling required whatsoever...

 

Here is my lockdown display of table lamps, lanterns and ghost lanterns.

 

Lamps fuelled, bonfire built and beer is cool. Camp is ready to enjoy.

 

Just about ready, I left it too late to get paraffin from my local hardware store so these old girls will be running on dregs..

 

Hi folks

Well, I’m set for the night! More photographs to follow when it gets dark enough to do the lanterns justice.

Regards Jeremy

 

Virtual Newark in Darley Dale. All ready for lighting later.

 

A few lamps ready

 

Well, it's been so hot here I had to go in my tent for a little siesta - nothing new there then!

Since that, I've fettled a chrome RM one-pinter and I'm going to start on my Dutch X246 soon.

But before that, I'd like to invite you all round to my pitch for a celebratory drink to mark my 70th birthday last Thursday. There's plenty of lager as well as ordinary Jack Daniel's and two superior JD varieties - Tennessee Honey and Single Barrel Select. Also birthday cake and plenty of chocolate for the kids. I just can't wait for you all to get here:-



Oh, hang on a minute...

 

Getting ready for a modest light-up:
Radius 103
Veritas 350p
Vapalux M1
Feuerhand 175



Congratulations @David Shouksmith

 

Congrats David. I'll raise my glass to you & in memory of Trevor & all our other colleagues we've lost over the years.

 

Thanks Emiel!

That lantern marked KERO - that'll be for gasoline then...

Today's fettled items:

An RM one-pinter stove in chrome and my Dutch X246 also in chrome, though a bit worn in places. It's running OK sort-of and will need a bit more attention tomorrow morning after breakfast...

 

Up and running, just a bit of last minute fettling going on.

 

Looks brill just missing 3 things us

 

If you are online Nigel, tax farm caravan site empty!

 

We are allowed 6 outdoors now! Even allowed for the dogs, and you can use our exec outdoor portapotti if you thoroughly clean it afterwards!

 

We could do with you coming over to bring some rain, blinking grass seed wont grow! Did you get the new lamp?? See the petter has sneaked in the photos!

 

Nearly got the petter to run today and will sort out and pop up one weekend

 

I took a photo of one of the CPL Board meetings and thought I would share it!

 

Your all welcome to my pitch for a beer or two:

 

Left to right-
1946 Tilley X246 Short-handle 'Knucklewarmer', Bialaddin 310 and a Dutch X246 now running nicely. I just got sick of having to pump it up every 20 minutes or so and decided to do it tonight. It had to be the washer under the control cock - I'm not too sure about these still so I decided I'd leave it alone if possible. On dismantling it proved the previous owner had substituted an 'O-ring' for the correct washer. Replacing that with the genuine article soon had the lantern running as it was designed to - huzzah!

I'll be putting the 310 and Dutch X246 up for sale next week. The knucklewarmer is already spoken for - sorry...