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[ SVVS Lunchtime Meeting - Red Barn - Blindley Heath ] ::
October 2024
The Red Barn at Blindley Heath
is a very popular eatery with a lovely smart separate barn restaurant and
has a nice big roomy shingled car park. The large yurty pagoda outside
which was much used during the Covid era, including by us on a couple of
occasions, has been re-instated after an absence. The pub can sometimes be quite packed and
getting a table to have lunch can be quite difficult. It is always
safest to book a table if intending to eat. A number of our Members lunch
here and advise that the food and the beer is good.
The Red Barn is also our last outside mid-month meeting venue of the year and
signals that Christmas and New Year are not far away; dark foggy nights! The
posing season
is now over, much too quickly. The weather here can be quite
unpredictable. One year the whole of the car park was under a foot of
water and only two cars occupied the whole car park. Last time here it was
sunny and warm, and this year the weather forecast was dull, - and delivered
accordingly, a dry overcast day with occasionally sunny spurts, no
water. Temperatures were forecast as overcoats, but required removal of at least one layer
on arrival. The sun however made photography difficult because the cars
are parked either in dark shade and/or bright sunshine, so one is shooting into bright
sunlight, with often disappointing results.
This year at this ultimate meeting we had a surprisingly low turnout of
Members at 20 cars, mostly of the
'classic' genre, also two interesting motorcycles at differing ends of the
age spectrum, and Chas with a fascinating bicycle with a frame likely to be at the
very higher end of the pain spectrum. Altogether we were down 14 cars on
last year. A few new cars were noted at this meeting confirming new
Members are attending, and some members came in moderns.
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