4th Blue Nose Rally 1981

 

 

4^th BLUE NOSE RALLY 1981 opened by Bob and Madge Walker below is his opening remarks on opening the rally.   

                          

It all seems such a long time ago when caravans were stored away during the winter ice and snow, caravanners spent their

time doing over-hauls, and putting a wee smear of grease around their balls.

 

 It was brought up at a committee meeting amid a banter of words, could we run a rally between Ne-erday and the Early Birds?

It was decided we could but who would Marshal it, who would volunteer, the committee shivered they didn’t want to know but me

being a bit simple said I’ll give it a go.

 

I hand picked my team, The Wilsons Hugh and Isobel, The Ross’s Tom and May and Madge and myself.

 

We started preparations for this wintry venture, we wondered what could we have change, I  still don’t know why so instead

of a mug of soup we would give them a hot pie in stead. I’ll always remember that night, the pie smell still lingers standing

there in the cold, with grease running through our fingers.

 

We had 26 vans two first ralliers made up the pack, I don’t know what it was but one of them never came back, for we all we

worked hard displaying our charms, could it be to forgot to wash under our arms.

 

Caravan rally marshals are credited with having brains that’s why their first thoughts are for the caravan weans.

 

Dave Russell’s wee boy stood their with his lip at the droop, almost in tears for he hadn’t had any soup, so what could we do?

Wee just rummaged around until a tin of Heinz Tomato soup, was found so wee sat him down in front of my van at a wee table with a plate

 of soup, a spoon in his hand, and the droop on his lip turned to a smile of joy. We got a lot of pleasure out of pleasing that wee boy.

 

When you start a new rally with a new venue, the first thing to think about is emptying your loo on a public car parks new ground,  

you can't dig a hole in Tarmacadam so what should we do, contact I,D,C, they said "we’ll send down our man who can

deal with things sloping around in a can" he took us round and showed us a big heavy metal cover, looking down that hole was like

looking over the cliffs at Dover, the hole was deep enough but not very wide at the top, so how could we deal with the over slop?

Tom Ross said I’ve a hammer nails and wood. I’ll make a funnel to widen the mouth of this big deep tunnel and in no time at

all Tom had the job done we all gathered round and christened it the shit chute Mk 1.