Absurd Amazon packing
Nosher's Stag Weekend: Paintball at Emery Down, and Lymington, Hampshire - 22nd May 2010
It's Nosher's Stag weekend, so The Boy Phil drives Nosher and a few of the lads down to the New Forest for paintball. That's followed by a hang-out at Sean's, a great Indian nosh-up at The Jarna in Old Milton, and then a few beers in Lymington. There was something of a moment as we witnessed a strangely-packed train leave Lymington station, on the other side of the river. It turns out it was the last-ever running of the old Class 432 rolling stock - the slam-door trains that used to do the sixth-form college run between New Milton and Brockenhurst. After various pubs, we end up in Lymington's classic sticky-carpet "night club" for a while. The following day, on the way back, we stop off at a pub Nosher first had a beer in at the age of 14 - the Plough Inn in Tiptoe, near Sway. First though, there's a photo of an Amazon delivery to the Taptu office of a few mugs, where the number and size of the boxes used is just so out of proportion it's not even funny. Paintball photos © Hamish.
next album: A Barbeque at Wavy and Martina's, Thrandeston, Suffolk - 30th May 2010
previous album: The BSCC Weekend Away, Buckden, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire - 15th May 2010
The Boy Phil and Bill at South Mimms
'Hotfood' for sale at South Mimms services
The Boy Phil has some stringy cheese to deal with
The lads do 'Abbey Road' thing at South Mimms
Driving on the M3
Simon, Sean and Hamish are already kitted up
Nosher, ready for Paintball
Simon and Sean
Sean, Nosher, The Boy Phil and Bill in full camo
Marc and Phil
Marc wanders over in a kind of 'war is hell' style
We get the pre-balling pep talk
Marc in a hut
The Stags are under fire
Sean, Simon and Hamish mill around afterwards
A Paintball group photo
Phil and Marc
We hang out in Sean's conservatory
Bill shows off his frankly staggering war-wounds
Sean plays guitar
Phil has a go at tormenting Holly the cat
Bill checks a menu out
Nosher irons everyone's shirt for some reason
Holly wants out
Nosher irons Bill's shirt
Marc and The Boy Phil play Mario-kart on the Wii
Bill does a bit of the Wii
Hamish, Bill and Marc in The Jarna
Sean in the Jarna
Sean and Nosher
We load up in Hamish's Sprog-hauler
Marc moons out of Hamish sprog-hauler
The junction with Barton Court Avenue
Hamish drives us out of New Milton
Down near the quay at Lymington
In the beer garden of the Ship Inn
Hamish chats to Bill
Marc pops his head over the wall
The last-ever slam-door train leaves for Brock
Boats on the river, and the empty quay
Outside the Ship Inn
Walking up Quay Hill
Hamish checks his mobile
Someone borrows the camera
Marc has a fag
Phil has a sleep
Bill is amused by Phil's dozing
Quay Hill and the King's Head Inn
A view of Quay Hill
A stray traffic cone
The lads cross the road
Our accommodation for the night
At Barton-on-Sea, Marc stares over the cliff
Walking the clifftop at Barton
Phil takes a photo of the Needles
Bill on the rocks
The Boy Phil takes a photo
The Boy Phil looks out to sea
Phil and Bill on the groyne
A carpet of pink flowers on the undercliff
Sean looks down from the clifftop
Bill and Marc in the Plough
Marc in the Plough
Phil and Marc have a quick sleep
Jon the Hair's mother appears
Bill and Nosher
Simon checks his phone
The Plough 'In'
Marc and Phil back at South Mimms
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Absurd Amazon packing
Absurd Amazon packing
The Boy Phil and Bill at South Mimms
'Hotfood' for sale at South Mimms services
The Boy Phil has some stringy cheese to deal with
The lads do 'Abbey Road' thing at South Mimms
Driving on the M3
Simon, Sean and Hamish are already kitted up
Nosher, ready for Paintball
Simon and Sean
Sean, Nosher, The Boy Phil and Bill in full camo
Marc and Phil
Marc wanders over in a kind of 'war is hell' style
We get the pre-balling pep talk
Marc in a hut
The Stags are under fire
Sean, Simon and Hamish mill around afterwards
A Paintball group photo
Phil and Marc
We hang out in Sean's conservatory
Bill shows off his frankly staggering war-wounds
Sean plays guitar
Phil has a go at tormenting Holly the cat
Bill checks a menu out
Nosher irons everyone's shirt for some reason
Holly wants out
Nosher irons Bill's shirt
Marc and The Boy Phil play Mario-kart on the Wii
Bill does a bit of the Wii
Hamish, Bill and Marc in The Jarna
Sean in the Jarna
Sean and Nosher
We load up in Hamish's Sprog-hauler
Marc moons out of Hamish sprog-hauler
The junction with Barton Court Avenue
Hamish drives us out of New Milton
Down near the quay at Lymington
In the beer garden of the Ship Inn
Hamish chats to Bill
Marc pops his head over the wall
The last-ever slam-door train leaves for Brock
Boats on the river, and the empty quay
Outside the Ship Inn
Walking up Quay Hill
Hamish checks his mobile
Someone borrows the camera
Marc has a fag
Phil has a sleep
Bill is amused by Phil's dozing
Quay Hill and the King's Head Inn
A view of Quay Hill
A stray traffic cone
The lads cross the road
Our accommodation for the night
At Barton-on-Sea, Marc stares over the cliff
Walking the clifftop at Barton
Phil takes a photo of the Needles
Bill on the rocks
The Boy Phil takes a photo
The Boy Phil looks out to sea
Phil and Bill on the groyne
A carpet of pink flowers on the undercliff
Sean looks down from the clifftop
Bill and Marc in the Plough
Marc in the Plough
Phil and Marc have a quick sleep
Jon the Hair's mother appears
Bill and Nosher
Simon checks his phone
The Plough 'In'
Marc and Phil back at South Mimms