SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL D.A.MEMBERS

PICKETS POST NEWSLETTER December 2019

The Editor is Dean Mueller-Davies, 127 Craigmoor Avenue, Bournemouth. BH8 9LT

07754455276 or e-mail davdee46@gmail.com

Articles for the December issue must be with me by 10am, 19th December.

Next Committee meeting is to be advised .

www.newforestda.com

Weekend stewards mobile number

is now

07514 555790

Chairman’s Welcome

Unfortunately, the rally at Norden Farm had to be cancelled due to a waterlogged

field. The weather is something we have no control over.

Luckily the following weekend had mixed weather and 25 units attended the last

meet of the season at Sandford Park. At least Sunday was good weather. The

majority of the campers took advantage of the D.A. money off vouchers for the

Claypipe Pub. We are hoping to hold a rally next year in March and hopefully

incorporate a skittles evening. Also, we hope to have another rally in October.

Booking forms will be available on the website and in Pickets post. Closing dates will

have to be 6 weeks before the rally as we have to pay £25 deposit per pitch at that

time.

The committee would like to thank Ian Fraser for offering to step into the sites

officer role. This is a caretaker position, just so that we can keep things up to date

until someone else offers to do the job. The laptop is being updated with all the new

forms /paperwork and there is a job description if anyone is interested.

At the Christmas lunch Christmas card boxes will be available for you to bring your

cards. Please write your names on the reverse in case the people are not there, and

you have to post the cards. We will be having a raffle to support the Macmillan

Charity. Donations of prizes are always acceptable. Please help us make a profit on

the raffle as we made a loss at Birchwood. It is such a worthwhile cause.

Weekend rallies and THS 2020 – stewards are required. Please see sites list to

see where we need help. We need two sets of stewards for our Easter meet at

Sixpenny Handley. If anyone would like to steward who has not done so before,

please contact me and we can organise a weekend where you can steward with

someone else, so that you can see what is required.

To date we have not found a replacement treasurer. It is imperative that we find

one in order for the DA to continue functioning. We have many people co-opting

over to our DA as they enjoy what we do. So please if anyone out there is interested

please contact myself, Tony or Tina. We will have a few vacancies on committee

at the end of April so we will be starting soon putting in a nomination form for

anyone to complete who is interested. If you are interested to find out what is

involved and how you can help, please contact myself or Tony Tester.

Pickets post – It has been decided that the LAST POSTED PICKETS POST

WILL BE THE FEBRUARY EDITION. AFTER THE END OF FEBRUARY YOU

CAN ONLY GET PICKETS POST BY EMAIL OR BY READING ON THE

WEBSITE. PLEASE REGISTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WITH DEAN

(davdee46@gmail.com) BY 20TH FEBRUARY IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE IT BY

EMAIL. EVEN IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS,

YOU MUST RE REGISTER EACH YEAR.

Colin & I had a lovely letter from HQ this month. We have been awarded the

Certificate of Honour for services to the Camping & Caravanning Club. We are very

proud of this and hope to receive it at the SWRSM at Wrantage in July 2020. The

booking form for this meet will soon be on the website. If you want to be

included in the NFDA block booking area, please send your form plus cheque

payable to the Camping & Caravanning Club New Forest DA or BACS payment

with reference SWRSM to Dee our Secretary by end of April 2020 or give to her

at our AGM (26th April at Birchwood).

On behalf of New Forest DA I would like to congratulate Christine Cole, a DA

member, on her success at re-election for 3 years as a National Councillor. She also

obtained the second highest number of votes.

Colin & I hope to see many of you at the Christmas lunch but to everyone may

we wish you a very Happy Christmas and Happy New Year, where we look

forward to a new camping season.

Heather Brown

Chairman. New Forest D.A

DINNER DANCE CAMPING

If you wish to camp for the NFDA dinner dance 7th March camping is available at Lytton Lawn site nearby. The cost is £25 pun inc hook up. You will need to contact the site direct to book and pitches must be vacated by 10am on day of departure.

Seasons Greetings

In Praise of our Wonderful NHS A big thank you to all in this Friendly Club who have sent messages of support and Get Well wishes. Thanks to our wonderful NHS Brian is still with us and determined he will be fit to do Birchwood THS next June. This year following a meal at Birchwood he had a discomfort in his chest which we put down to the new anti-inflammatory tablets he had been told to take by our GP. An appointment was given and following this a chest X-ray, Blood test and ECG all the next day. A visit to Poole's "treadmill where a quick thinking Cardiologist told him to listen to his body and do nothing strenuous pending a Cardiac Catheter investigation at Bournemouth. On 28th Oct I left him for the 4 hour slot only to receive a phone call to say he was being admitted immediately pending transfer to Southampton for open heart surgery. WHAT! This very fit man now on a ward with a mobile heart monitor. To say we were all in shock would be an understatement. 11 days in Bournemouth having further investigations, transfer by ambulance to Southampton and on 5th Nov his heart was removed, 4 bypasses performed and the main valve replaced. How wonderful is that. Unfortunately it did a blip next day needing CPR and on point of return to theatre decided perhaps it had better beat as it didn't want to go back there again. Another 7 days and we were on our way home via the New Forest as he hates the A31. Unfortunately for some unexplained reason he gradually declined and following a 999 call was admitted to Poole hospital where it was discovered he has an infection of unknown origin. We do need to keep that ED dept at Poole!! Have another at Bournemouth by all means but do not deprive us of our wonderful service at Poole. 48 hours on and he is better than when we first brought him home following Intravenous antibiotics. The morale of this story is :- Please do not ignore something you may think is indigestion!!

Next we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Camping in 2020. (No cards this year as I have a patient to care for. No Christmas Function but we plan to be with you for the Dinner Dance with Brian able to Dance! Janet & Brian Setchell

May I just take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy

and healthy 2020.

Hopefully I will catch up with a few of you at the Christmas Dinner.

Don’t forget to register your email address with me to continue to receive the

Pickets Post from March onwards. (davdee46@gmail.com)

Best wishes from Dean & Ruth Mueller-Davies.