Photo thanks to: Ben Meyer, Becca Cullen, Jacqueline Bale [AFG_gallery id=’24’] The UL attended an eventful and thoroughly enjoyable SUA which, I have been reliably informed, may even have been as good as when we hosted it last year (I know… shocking!). For those people who decided to accept the President’s Challenge, the event started […]
Photo thanks to: Helen Saddleton, Jacqueline Bale, Lucy Bricheno and Tom Sibley [AFG_gallery id=’19’] Day 1 – Saturday 3rd September 2011: Most of the UL Summer Tour-ers arrived in Nottingham with one notable exception – Jenny Willis who managed to get the wrong train (claiming that there were 2 trains on the platform) and ended
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This year it was decided that it was time for the UL to host the SUA competition. What could possibly go wrong? The Friday ringing session was at St Mary-le-Bow, people just had to get there. It turned out that Bristol went to Hart Street Church for reasons best known to them, and the rest
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A band of regular UL “Thursday Night” members including two freshers entered the 38th Annual Tewkesbury Shield competition. We had (unusually for us) a good draw when compared to the OUS (the only people we really wanted to beat!) who had not only been up since 5am to ring for May Morning, but had a
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Having missed both the Freshers tour and the pub crawl this was my first UL event. I do not pretend that this is necessarily a true and accurate representation of the events occurring, but I hope that I have got some of it right at least. On the Friday afternoon I met Heather and Nick
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Danes (Monday), Seps (Friday) and Swindon (Saturday morning) provided the venues for the practices for this year’s Tewkesbury Shield team. Unlike previous UL expeditions to striking competitions all the team members were of good health on the way to the practice and Tewkesbury itself. Having reached Tewkesbury and parked what seemed to be 2 miles
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I am being forced to write this whilst sitting in the Marisco Tavern as I have been avoiding writing this due to alcohol erasing most of the weekend from my memory. Definitions ADD: Alcoholic Drinks Drunk MOOS’AW: Members of other societies acquainted with Day 1 We arrived in typical UL style in time for the
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The ULSCR, friends, relatives and the rest having gathered at the appointed time on the fourth Saturday in July settled to begin their adventure. I have, for my sins, been asked to recount the whole particulars about the Treasure Hunt, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the drunken ramblings and after
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After the usual dithering and disinformation about the meeting place (thanks Charles!) the cars headed west on the M4. Andy and Rupert both seemed determined not to be overtaken by the other but Andy’s car appeared to be winning the race – until he mysteriously pulled over onto the hard shoulder. The mystery continued for
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On a fine Friday evening in November, the UL bravely set off, equipped only with beer, pasties and a hand-drawn map of Bristol, to the SUA competition. Organised only days beforehand, we were surprised to have a map at all but thankfully it was accurate enough to get us to the first pub, having arrived,
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