Super Heroes Mulsanne Montage "Monge Toute Rodney"

Well Thanks Skip for the chance to let
us entertain all day! As you all know Mike and I are very introvert and it was a big struggle for us to come out of our shells!!

Skip manages to stop the Super Heroes from taking off using only the power of his Magic Slippers!!

Banana Teapot Man !

Eat yer heart out Lone Ranger! Wally Man Always rides Bare Back

Service Garcon Wally Man proudly shows off his packet whilst balancing beer on a tray

Wally Man goes Invisible, even the Gendarmes can't see him!


That Fire engine was doing 70MPH Wally Man uses his Magnetic Feet Powers to Save the World with a water pistol !!

The Dynamic Duo.... Oh Purleeze don't look at Me........We're sooooo Shy....

Fuel Man thinks he is leaning on the armco BUT Wally Man is Invisible Again!!

Off and Away to help Michelin Man Save the Universe..........



Sticker sez it all.....

Time for bed.........

Cherry! (Suits you sir)

Media/photo swopping

Hi All,

Thanks to all for making the weekend what it was.
Special thanks to those that made the week what it was.
Trojans, Skip, Lofty and Jason, members of the Logisitcs Department, performed their magic and we had a camp containing unimaginable luxury's and for that Marsty and I are truly grateful. Thanks Guys.

I still feel rough.

Got a very bad tum, has anyone else suffered?

Maybe I'm geting too old?

Can those that want copies of Marsties photos please reply to this entry with postal address in order for the appropriate number of CD's can be burned and despatched?


Laters doods.

Mark.

Rastafarian meet at L/M

Captions please..........

This picture was found by:Chris (Driver No.3)

a load off the ldvs

i think we should all say a big thankyou too rachel and her sister who has found us a storage for all team spanner gear in france so we dont have to drag every thing from england next year you are both vip members of team spanner welcome in out pits any day

loftys dodgy pics

try and see the pattern emerging
ummm may be hes not hetrosexual
things look up maybe he is hetrosexual
[he says i took this pic but i didnt emma]
then he blows it with this shot glad iam in the awning next year

2008

what can i say my best year by far! as last year a great drive down not a fast one but at least you take in all the views and you dont get lost hey chips the trams where great easy too get to town where the irish bar was outstanding cheers skip never been anywhere like that before {bit too many mens penises for my liking though} had four great relaxing day them the mayhem comenced last year i held back a bit being the new boy of the team but this year with my new found good looks lol i got a tad pissed on friday [not as bad as you last year mark but close]what a day never seen lofty that pissed and i cant belive what he was saying too sharon and rachel!!!!!!! not sure weather they were intreaged or scared!! good on ya loft. found out the 24h bar isnt!race day was outstanding cars , women , an we upset some germans what more could you want as per usual lost cotton on race nite and the icing on the cake was sunday at the finish i think we can safely say we was the loudest by far cant take team spanner anywhere only 355 days till next year id like to say thanks too lofty an skip for getting every thing there and hi too john and rachel [good too see you are well rachel] and hi too all we met thish year and a big thanks too you all for a great year cant wait for next year now love jason [fuel man]

2008 what can i say

which way now driver?????
the trams where a god send
loftys uncontrolable hormones
captions please
team chef and new freind

Anybody know who won the race???

Now that my hands have stopped shaking a bit I would like to Thank all Team Spanner members for making the trip such a Large one!! Particularly All the hard work put in by Skip, Lofto and Jase to make it all happen. The start of the race was as Mad as ever but the end has gotta be the Loudest ever!! Chips exceled hiself this year with over a 1000 pix n vids!! The Cherries worked well and Mike will forever be Wally Man to me!
Cheers people... DC

Bon Voyage Team!!!

Have a bloody great week, look forward to hearing all of the stories and seeing the pictures

Make sure you come home with some silverware?

Hope LDV Convoy get there ok without any hitches!

Have a good one et al

Team Members (Reminder!)

We needed to pay for 2008 tour shirts on this FRIDAY if we can please!!

The Toy Car is a Bit Sick............

Hi Ya All....Well the Cob went through the MOT with a little help from my friend! It seems she is over fueling a bit and the emissions were'nt at their best. Sorted with a different car on the ramp! Anyway, I have had a niggling water leak and whilst in cleaning mode over the weekend I found the culprit....See pic. The thermostat housing musta come from India or some other third world casting shop, cos it is well corroded and lost a decent chunk. Sooooo got a new one and me n Nick are gonna put her back together tonight. Also I have got hold of the engineer that built the beast and I am inviting him down over the coming weekend to give her the once over.
makes ya laugh don't it....There's me giving Skip n Lofto stick about the LDV's and the week before we go there is stuff to fix!!! Anyway have checked the weather http://www.accuweather.com/ and it looks good for race week, like 27 degrees on race day and a dry run down for Thursday......Appeeee Daze....See ya all soon......... DC

A BIG THANK YOU !

A big thank you to our team engineer, Gip who once again has work non stop over the last 4 days getting the support vehicles ready for there annual trip.Especially Lofty silver dream machine which this year has give us a few problems.But have all been sorted now (hopefully) Thanks Paul ! From us all........

At the risk of Stating the Obvious.........

IT AINT LONG NOW!!!!!!!!
Cob's in for her first MOT tomorrow, it will not rain, took her out last saturday for a 110 mile shake down, all looking and feeling good, espescially to the cars I overtook! LOL Hard to believe the car is three years old, 6,500 miles and one careful owner!! Looking forward to seeing you all and partying down in a puddleless field (is that a word?) I understand the Team shirts are under way for this year, well done Shaz X There are other things you can do apart from vodka based ones and well done Skip for leaving it to the last minute again LOL. Got us a few newbie/beer carriers for the trip and looking forward to introducing them to the team. Unfortunately Jamie n Lisa won't be on the tour but ya know we can fone em from the start! Well done too, to Lofto for getting his LDV ready for the trip, All on his own, apart from Skip helping with the shower curtain....Soooooo see ya all soon for a HOT Le Mans 2008.....DC

shower curtain slasher

just a quick word on the dangers of opening a new shower curtain with a stanly knife! its not big and ints not clever hey skippy?

Greetings from RHODES,GREECE

SPANNER RACING IN FALIRKI! HELLO EVERYONE. HAVING A GREAT TIME ,PRACTICING FOR 3 WEEKS TIME!

Not long now

Hey guys not long now but I'm getting a bit worried cos my h/a sud camping tickets aint turned up yet, have been assured they are on way but.....................! Skip will pop in to weymuff to drop my tent off and have a cuppa with you on wed morning, are we short of anything?? when are all you guys getting to L/M? I'm out on the vomit comet at 07:30hrs from Poole on thursday (weather permiting) hope to get on site around 14:00 if I can keep outa sight of the johndarns! ttfn

Coleman's Eye Shots!!!

Just for you Shaz - with Stick!

Just For You D.C. - Looking Younger...

A Few More Pics from the Year of the Chicken!

Welsh Richard aka DAVE!!

SKIP - Are you Breathing?
This is a comfy Pillow...Where's the ravioli!!

Mange Tou Derek!!

2001

More 2002 Pictures

2002 Crew...

2002 Team Spanner "Dance"

Found this in my archive of digital media...

Its a bit quiet on here..............................

Where is every 1,Shandy Fountain???????
Ive not got anyone's addy's so i was hoping to talk to bonafied team members on our wonderful site but there's never any1 about except DC at 11pm at night!lol
come on its been nearly a week,surely some1 has some interesting news they wish to share (RD)...............................

Hip Hip!!!

Oh thanks to me for getting the clock working...

To busy worrying about what channel to watch, who will be the fat controller with the remote and who can't give a stuff....

There you go, so you know how long before the camp site opens - guess that will be wrong, do you want it to show when DC will arrive, or the start of some race that weekend...

Or maybe when the next Bracknell (BMW) branch might post a comment or blog entry...

Hay how - off to find the adtaper for yee sat...

Projector Update

Jase

Projector should be in Dorset next week - either I will be down to see my mum or they will be coming up for the weekend - depends what the doctor says tomorrow at the Chemo Clinic :-(

I have just tested it and as I thought one of the colours is not working, the picture is ok but colour is not great - you need to run a resolution of 1024 x 768

The projector is a Compaq MP1600 - just checked on Ebay, there are two projectors on there, one for spares and new bulbs but these are £165 or £399...

Can't find the 35mile vga cable though...

You could see if you can get a digital USB TV tuner for your laptop, then you could see if you can pick up any local channels

Is it just the PC you want to hook up or the Sat decoder? If its the decode I will need to try to find the adapter...

When you turn the unit off, you must let it go into standby before pulling the plug otherwise you will totally kill the bulb

I will let you know when it is only 20 miles away unless I can get gyp to collect it or if I am down, then I will come to the fair ground to see all of the projects at LDV World!!!

Question?

RD. Hows the damaged camera film you were having done? Did you get it back.

the new shower

i apologise for not posting on the blog for a while but as you can see ive been busy doing sum small alterations to our shower tower what do you all think not great but its a bit better are you happy now skippy?????

more cable please

i have been tasked too do a job by skippy an was wondering if neone has any cable to attach my lap top too the projector i have laid it all out and my cables only reach southampton and the projector is with julian in guildford so if any one has about 35 mile i could borrow that would be great then i can test it out!!!!!!!!!! on a serious note has ne one got a satelite dish the old larger size is needed

WANTED: Team Trailer

Now the Weymuff crew are seasoned coach builders with the 2nd LDV, surely they could build a bespoke Team Trailer

Couple of axels, bit of welding by Jas, electrics by Gyp - job done...

Come on Skip, Challenge Spanner!!!

You could even build a shower/porta loo trailer...

What do you think Team?

New addition to the fleet

Hello, everyone.As Lofty has pointed out,not long to go.
Just arrived!Our new addition to the logistic team.We do need another one,if anyone No's of one.Also there is still a satellite dish to find!(someone must no of one?)Our we having new shirts this year?We need to start thinking about this.(your thoughts please!)Plus anyone wanting tee shirts (as previous post)we need to get these ordered.
Julian! We need to sort out this new site,ASAP.Plus don't give us CAN'T,ref the count down clock.Find a solution.Projector?
Jason.Hows the new shower coming on? Bet its looking good!Perhaps a photo?
Do we have any other requirements ? Lets sort it now rather than leave it to last minute.

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN........

No sign of the clock on the 1st page yet then??
For those that are starting to get excited about june,its 8weeks,4hours and 5o minutes (at the time of posting) that " senior" management(RD),enterainment management and logistis personnel and not forgetting vodka control,can get together for a few cold one's as we cross the channel!
Looking forward to seeing all other team departments,old and new a few days later.

What Skip does on a sunday evening.

Thought i share with you,& explain to Mr Cotton what i was doing when he rang me.Been building a old fairground ride on the beach.You don't no how difficult it is to get a truck & trailer on to a soft sand beach.We had to board over the sand with 30 sheets of shuttering ply just to get it there.I no what you are asking? WHY? The BBC are filming EASTENDERS in Weymouth all week & this has been brought down for that.

Lofty's Shower Update

I know that alot of you have been asking hows it going.Some photos of the shower in the LDV.(Thou i believe that Jason thinks its a big ash tray!)

Sculduggery on this Blog

Dear Honourable Members from Southampton, Weymouth, The South and the Midlands,Thames Valley and the Midlands,

As an Administrator, I have on occasion had to allow using Admin functions, comments made by non members on the Blog.
Today I noticed there were two such entries awaiting approval.
I had a look at one of them and was immediately sent to an Anti Spyware page that started to download a program.! Gulp!
I killed it instantly, and deleted the two entries awaiting approval.
I can't for the life of me remember who the Userids were, but lets take a lesson from this, if you don't recognise the originator - and this rule should also be used when opening emails, etc, in the normal day to day operation of the WWW-, delete immediately, do not open!

All administrators, be aware!

Regards

Mark.

Need a Doylie Wiv That??

Quality........Beatsa tent wiv No maid..............

Honey I Shrunk the Cob !!!

wasnt there dunno bout the veryan gotta mix up in the date should I turnuo mid July wiv me whites???

How many Weeks???

Bin playin a bitta table tenniss....n remebered it's aint far away./..(pleazzz note i m ritin in Weyfufffffffffffff mode) so all can understand xXXXX D Xxxxx oh yeah and a bitta Brackenese...............So seems , no bmw boys, JC John, millsie?? Nige nah..Lolly??? such a nice man....Jeff? nuther beauty...is H e on it? N H & S??? Paul>( one trip an dlegendry? Wot you just ticked the box?) And John??? so just the 17 of us ..hey ho Born Slippy,,,,Jamie over this weekend...from my end swe ave chips n ermma...we'l see///j n lisa...we know sthat lady can party!!! new on my side will be Mike ..cob co pilot and Marty ....part animala and dont want any pics vids etc...just wantsta be surpised...they will fit in!!! chip n emmm all I really need iss the boot space ...sure it will be a party... Lofto if ya cant get barn pic wiv yer cam try DoylieVisiobn!¬ X! Oh and Sharon AKA handbrakeholder are you on the trip this year?? you bin very quiet for a LM Party Planner? Now that you have stopped cookin (Visa veeee Tram to Town) does that mean the washing wont get done?? that is enuff terxt cos we all get bored with the big blogs...like the n ones from Wey Muff

Just for those Green Fingers in Team Spanner!!

Jase - in Holland they call this Guerrilla farming!!!

Le Mans 2008 ticket availability

Gents,

Some of the Central Southern Branch and the Midlands members are not going to make it this year, so...........

JC and John have 2 General Entrance, 2 Grandstand and 1 Houx Annexe going.
(I am going to take the camper for Julian)

So offers to either JC or John for the tickets that are available please.

Regards

MArk.

Localised Postal Strike - Basingstoke

I have just realised that Spanner Productions were going to send out "The Adventures of Team Spanner 2007" last year

I know post offices are being shut but there can't be a postal strike for this long!

Has anyone spoken or seen the Safety Officer?

I know he is probably busy in Bahrain for this weekend's GP

Guess the Car!!!

Come on you petrol heads - tell me what this is?

Spotted on the streets of Moscow a year ago - is it was in an Auto Trader it would be gold plated!