Archives for January 2020

Coast to Country
The traditional ATUK “fish and chip run” is a popular event. As several friends were unable to make
this trip in November, I volunteered to lead a repeat run last Sunday (26 th January). To ring the
changes a bit we decide it would be interesting to tackle the route in reverse! No that doesn’t mean
we drove in reverse (although we sometimes did!) – we started the lanes from near Hunstanton and
ended up in Thetford forest with a plan to have dinner at the local “Hungry Horse” pub.
But first we had to drive to the Coast from near Cambridge. James Edwards aka “Taffy” volunteered
to cook the breakfast so for our planned rendezvous at 0715 we were greeted by a great selection of
Bacon and sausage butties. A great start to the day!
Hitting the road at just after 0745 we enjoyed a traffic free journey in lovely winter sunshine to meet
the rest of our group in Sedgeford, Norfolk for our planned start time of 0930.
Our group consisted of my Defender 110, James and Stuart in their 2 Defender 90’s, and James and
Jane and David in their 2 Discovery 1’s, with passengers we had a total of 11 “crew”, including Harry
our resident wildlife photographer who also managed to capture some great action shots of our
Landys too!
Having Harry along as my passenger provided a whole new dimension to the trip with him spotting
numerous birds from Buzzards to Green Woodpeckers and Mistle Thrushes. Just goes to show there
is always something new to learn about and see when out on our green lanes!
All in all, a super day out in excellent winter sunshine in good company. Thanks Stuart, Steve, James,
David, Harry, James, Jane and the children.
Alan King
27.01.2020

Last and first
The east of England LOCAL SUPPORT TEAM [LST] ran the inaugural last weekend and first weekend laning trip at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 in the Thetford and Norfolk areas. It was a well attended event and members came from far and wide including a member from Dorset.
We had two groups leave Thetford and head out for a mornings laning before meet at a local picnic site for dinner and a catch up before heading our own way for the afternoon session. ground conditions although very wet were ok with virtually all of the tracks in this area being of a hard surface. A few of us met at a local McDonald’s at the end of the day for a coffee and a chat about how the day had gone. we have had several comments regarding what a great day these events were and even a request or two regarding next[this] year!
All in all a very enjoyable event and the atuk team would like to say a huge thanks to everyone who attended.
for more information please visit our Facebook page or you can contact LST team members via the contact form here on the website.