Orwell BBQ - Tuesday May 15th

Party People,

A date for your social diaries. On Tuesday evening May 15th Orwell Wheelers are holding a BBQ at The Blue Light pub (Barnacullia Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18)
The BBQ coincides with the final night of the Orwell Ladies Crit League and will also double as a fund raiser for the Orwell Ras Team. Just days later some of Orwell’s most experienced & talented men set off to cover 1,168kms, over 8 stages, with 28 categorised climbs, three of which are Cat 1 – impressive stuff so please come and show your support.

As the Ras Team will be in attendance on the night, suggestions as to how they might add to our entertainment value are welcome…..they have all (sort of) agreed to take part in any activity which we deem suitable/necessary/boarder line public humiliation.
• BBQ starts 8pm
• Admission: €10 for Adults and €5 for Children
• Raffle/Prizes on the night

Right we have our first fund raising suggestion and it’s a good one! Bernadette Tansey-Daly has very kindly offered to give our Ras men a chest wax at the BBQ on May 15th. She claims to have the necessary qualifications (not that I will bother checking this out)….So, who is first up?

If I want to inflict pain wax someone, do I have to be qualified????

Make mine a Brazilian

Due to a severe lack of ball…body hair, we are no longer waxing the Ras men, instead they are now going to race a 300 metre TT (or whatever distance I manage to carve out of the Blue Light car park) on a monkey bike – in full TT costume.
This might sound easier than it is: (1) the bike is 2 foot high (if even), (2) we are not sure if it has the ability to turn/steer so it may end up being more a TT/cyclocross event, (3) parked cars and other random road furniture may have to be incorporated into the TT course (see point 2)

Are we allowed to throw tomatos at them?

Totally.

My money's on Aidan C. Brian may struggle a little in this one...

This is a technical course so bike skills may count for more than aerodynamics and pure power. Hard to call..

Just a reminder that this is on tomorrow night.

It's promising to be a cracker of an evening out, and the prize list that has been put together for the raffle is fairly impressive. The racing will start in Sandyford from 19:00, Barbecue in the Blue Light from 20:00.

All are welcome, if you can't make it along for the whole evening feel free to drop in for any part of it.

Great fun last night. Thanks to all those who organized the craic, and especially the FOOD! One idea though, would it be any warmer if we moved it to say, February?

What are you talking about, you should have been PLENTY warm after slogging that Dublin Bike up to the Blue Light!

On behalf of the Rás team i'd like to say a huge thanks to Anne for organising last night. A massive thanks also to everybody else including the greater Mclaughlin clan for doing the cooking and everybody else who helped out in making it a really enjoyable evening.
And to whoever sorted out the weather too - fair play and please do the same for the week of the rás...

Just to echo Brian's comments:
Thanks to all involved with organising the night for your time and effort, and also to those who donated some great prizes. Your generosity is much appreciated by the whole team.

Also thanks to everyone who came out and made it a fantastic evening.

Great night, thanks to the large team that put it & the ladies crit league all together.

Anyone who can ride a Dublin Bike up the climb to the Blue Light (touching 17% in places) has got to be in awesome form. I vote that Patrick Santini should be immediately included on the Orwell Rás team.

And I've been instructed by my Other Half to tell Anne that her throw away reference to Ferris Bueller during the raffle draw was masterly and highly appreciated.

Hear, hear etc. Although I thought some dill and cornichons would have lifted the potato salad from the merely exquisite to the sublime.

Indeed, a huge thank you to everyone who helped out with the BBQ last night, it was great fun. Thanks also to everyone who came along and offered their support, I picked up some good tips for the Rás.

A grand evening out. Very enjoyable, thanks all.

Daniel wrote:

Hear, hear etc. Although I thought some dill and cornichons would have lifted the potato salad from the merely exquisite to the sublime.

Thought strikes me - it would be a very Orwell coup to get a celebrity chef to endorse your musettes during the Ras.

Rachel Allen springs to mind. Not sure why.

I know I could probably look it up, but could Dan Guilbaud enlighten me as to what cornichons are?