[Regia-NA] getelds

[John Shulver]

 With regards to the cow in the lake at leixlip.Two points:-
 1 the Guinness brewery gets its water via a pipe line from the wicklow
mountains to the south of Dublin.
 2 the lake at the show provided water for a small Hydro - electric plant,
so the cow would make no odds!

 regards John

----- Original Message -----
From: yolli <yolli@lineone.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] getelds


> In 1995 or so we had a show in Leixlip just west of Dublin. The ground was
> very flat with only cow dung as an annoyance, and at the end of the field
> was the reservoir that supplies the brewery for Guiness - in which floated
> the bloated carcass of a cow......
>
> Anyway, the weather did take a turn for the worse and a real gale blew up.
> People quoted various forces of gale, but I would say that as it was
> difficult to walk when it gusted, it must have been in the 40 - 50 mph
gust
> region. I saw three tents fly before they were staked down. It's amazing
how
> quickly the take off - there's just no warning. Two took to flying without
> any damage, but a third was struck down. Chloe's tent by the
> way.........that for some of us here should explain everything.
>
> When it does get frisky, I prefer to use two large stakes at the fore and
> aft position of the tent. We run a rope through the crutches of the tent
> from one stake to the other, and use a lorry hitch to pull the tent back
to
> earth. Probably by then a ditch has been dug around the tent as a well.
>
> Ask Ian about Largs and his Viking Kite...........
>
> Roll.
>
>
>
> [If it's their only tent?  You betcha!  When it was two years old, ours
> rolled onto the battlefield at Pennsic during a major summer thunderstorm.
> Both the frame and the canvas still display their "war wounds" proudly. ;>
> Oh, and we learned to stake the thing down when camping in exposed
terrain!]
>
>
>
>
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