Angelica & OAJJ’s shared passion
Amidst all the excitement of booking the Las Vegas scooter
rally for next year, the forthcoming rally at Cleethorpes had paled into
insignificance by comparison but as the sun shone brightly through the windows
of Cloppa Castle at 5:20am on Friday morning all thoughts were trained on
getting myself sorted for a weekend of fun and frivolity. Silly o’clock
messages were duly sent with all good intentions but 1 of the replies (too rude
to mention) gave me the impression that some people actually sleep the night
before a rally (how strange!!). I arrived at sunny cleethorpes (thanks Dell) at
5.30 in the afternoon some 10 minutes or so behind my hosts Shh..Davey. There
were quite a few scoots buzzing around and the campsite only had a sprinkling of
tents erected on it but my destination was an 8 berth luxury palace yon side of
pleasure island. Shh..Davey were spending the week there and offered me 5 star
treatment for the weekend and why not thought I (would be churlish to refuse).
After copious amounts of caffeine a sossij sarnie and a visit from Pinky and
Perky aka AVT we headed off to the campsite to meet up with the shoe people who
had arrived around 6.00pm.
Town was a beckoning so we headed straight to Bootleggers
which was the main pub for live entertainment for the weekend in more ways than
one which shall become clear later. Once there we were greeted by Hayden, Paula,
hippy and little Paula who had started drinking some 2 hours earlier (some
people are so impatient). With it being such a nice warm evening we decided to
stay outside the pub on the street or was it too packed to get in? Either way we
dint see the band but they dint sound bad from outside. There must have been
close to 200 or so scooterists in and around the pub and the atmosphere was
brill with the usual rally tunes blurring out into the street. Me and Davey made
the mistake of making plans (that’s why we only do thingy’s) to go to the do
but as usual they dint materialise and we stayed at the bootleggers all night. I
got into a long conversation with Dell aka the ii sun god on the lack of effort
he seems to be putting in for us as we strive to get some kind of summer this
year and he duly promised to rectify the situation ASAP. As the evening wore on
Mr Bean insisted on telling us lots of useless information about various things
before Shh piped up about rabbits which had everyone even passers by in fits of
laughter (but we’ll leave it there eh Shh) lol. Cad popped over to say hello
and as he crossed the street when leaving mr Bean re-named him the great
suprendo on account that he his spiting image of the great magician lol. The pub
finally closed around midnight so myself, Shh..Davey and the shoe people crossed
the road for a game of Pepi’s Bingo in which we all strangely enough won
catbab and chips before finishing the night off with more drinks at Shh..Daveys
palace finally getting to my pit at 3.30.
The cockeral crowed at 6.20am actually it was Molly
demanding milk so Shh got up and sorted molly out and I made coffee. Shh then
shown off her culinary skills and produced a plate of very
Professionally cooked toast but only after Davey had shown
her how to light the grill because Shh couldn’t get it to light….something
about turning on the oven but trying to the light the grill lol…We then got
ready and set off to the camp site to see who was about. En route I had a natter
with the hornets before bumping into Dunny, Billy, Caroline and Dawsey aka
sezloads who had camped alongside the shoe people in a mini ii village. We then
made our way to the custom show and parts fair that was taking place at the
winter gardens where we bumped into BigN who had travelled down for the day.
Davey purchased some baby docs for Megan which look absolutely brill on her
little feet (god help the garden gate when she gets home) before we set off on a
mile hike to the chippy for lunch. Think he’s trying to get me fit for all the
walking im gonna have to do in Vegas whoooo hoooooo \o/\o/\o/\o/ once in the
chippy total mayhem reigned but fun was had by all including mrBean who donned a
mask and pretended to be the lone ranger. Henners walked in with his club and
after a little natter we headed off on the mile or so trek back up the sea front
whilst the kids went on the beach and the donkeys. Monty decided it would be fun
to be rude to Shh not a wise move when your 4 ft 5in tall and without any effort
what so ever he felt the wrath of Shh’s back hand round his tab. Twas so funny
and summat monty was’nt expecting but it drew cries of laughter from all that
seen it. At that point the heavens opened and brought an end to the afternoons
proceedings so it was time to head back to the luxury of the palace to rest and
recuperate for the night times festivities. Then I seen a first on a rally…
Shh actually got the vacuum cleaner out and started hoovering weird or what.
We started off the evenings drinking at the Wello just up
from the site which was bustling with scooterists including Dunny, Sezloads,
Billy, Caroline and the shoe people to name a few but we were greeted by the sad
news on our arrival that Donna from Burton had passed away at 4 o’clock that
afternoon (may she rest in peace). Later on angelica standing in as no1 in T’s
absence decided we were to head off to the Bootleggers (well she is Angel of
all) and a very able deputy she proved to be anall. (Before I’m inundated with
emails regarding Angelicas credentials she did text T’ who authorised it, ok,
lol). Bootleggers wasn’t that packed as many had headed off to the do but we
still had fun chatting to Andy H, Fiona, Hippy, Paula and Tara who’d decided
to put in a guest appearance after travelling over from the punk festival at
Morecambe, drinking and dancing to the tunes that were again blasting out into
the street by Tony 1 shirt with all the best entertainment being shown live
outside the pub next door. Bootleggers was rammed full of scooterists all
weekend and not a punch was thrown and the bouncers probably had the easiest 2
days they will ever have on the door, but next door every 10 minutes or so a
fight was breaking out amongst the trendy’s in the pub and when they were
thrown out they wanted to take on the bouncers including one bloke that was all
of 8 stone wet through. The bouncer obviously had to show restraint but after 25
minutes of this idiot Davey suggested to the bouncer that he’d job him a
F***** on his behalf. (Violent family them moore’s look up there ^^^^^^^^^^^).
Myself, Shh, Angelica and Sezloads decided to head on to
the do after the pub had closed as we were dying to
raggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh whilst the others went back to the site. The
do was packed solid with all the usual stuff being played but we made our own
space and danced the night away including sezloads who just was unstoppable. We
were finally booted out at 2.50 and made our way home dropping Angelica and
Sezloads off at the site on our way. As usual Sunday arrived with a hangover,
note to self (stop drinking J20 unless sharing passion fruit with Angelica) and
the daunting task of the harduous journey home but it was made all the more
bearable after I’d tucked into a full English cooked by Davey (top banana) and
just like a flash it was over, another good weekend in good company with special
thanks to my hosts Shh..Davey and the m&m’s. note to monty Best keep those
opinions to oneself.
Out takes
Louie in the car: oj can I play with your sossije?
Monty in caravan: ooooh big boy!!
Mr Bean at the pub: I’ve fallen off the wagon!! (we’re
u actually on it) 0.5% nuff sed lol
Monty in caravan: mum is Molly an abused child?
OAJJ after shh was ready to raggghh: shh thought u were
gerrin ready?
Jeff Johno Hornets sc