Mini HaHa clean-up Sunday 12th June 2011

No worries, I can bring a wheel barrow, see you there.

Ed,

Still on to come, what equipment would be useful?

Stu

met up with ed and his son mathew yesterday evening, and wandered along the minihaha
there's certainly no shortage of traffic cones and fallen branches to be pulled out

think waders will be handy, strong rake, pruning saw, if you've any of this kit, please bring it with you

Okay Jim,

I can bring most of these.

By the way, the web site is very slow at the moment. Don't think that it's me as no problems on other sites.

Regards

Stu

nice one buddy, look forward to meeting up, although we might have to bring our own coffee, I dont think colin is working that day

Evening Gents,

Will be there. I thought that I might get over a bit earlier to avoid any traffic. Is there a 'greasy spoon' nearby to fortify the inner man!

Stu

On the Middlesex (Ranelagh Drive) side:
There are a bit of an excess of coffee & sandwich shops in Crown Road in St.Margarets
(south of the A316) one option might be Ches's Trattoria http://riversniffers.com/2008/10/06/chess-trattoria-st-margarets/
North of the A316 in the other direction there's Greedies Cafe in Old Isleworth http://greediesworld.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=9
(doh! open 10am-8pm )

Not sure about anything over on the Surrey (Mini HaHa) side.

Don't think you'll need to worry too much about traffic at that time on a Sunday tho'!

Cheers Ed

Any excuse for a 'full english'!

Stu

nice one buddy, its a fair old trot and I personally appreciate it big time, richard crimp is another who regularly drives from walthamstow way, and thats what you call committment

I can't bring a wheel barrow, it's been a while since I used it and quite frankly its rusted to hell. I can still come along where are people meeting?

Sure no probs, ours is starting to get that way too i just noticed.
See the map on page 2 of this thread. Cheers, Ed

dont worry chaps, we'll have the prestige mk 4 carp porter, wide wheel, suspension and a mudguard if you wanna run with it, it'll carry 200lbs, as long as you can push it

So I thought I'd put some air in the tyre on my wheelbarrow just now,
perhaps I overdid it a bit, imagine my surprise when there was a crunch and the wheel rim collapsed under the pressure. It will still go, kind-of, but tomorrow may be its last job. Maybe the wheel on yours is still OK though Guy, may be able to make one working barrow out of the pair of them? LoL!

best if we leave any possible break downs at home, we dont wanna be adding to the stuff that we'll collect

A fantastic effort this morning;
We removed 18 traffic cones, a trailer chassis, large amount of himalayan balsam, a bike, a tyre, a computer screen of some sort and all manner of other stuff!
I failed to count the number of bin bags of litter so will have to count them on the photos.
thank you everybody, Ed.

(edit) figured out the "computer screen" was in fact one of those flatbed scanner things.

I won't bore you too much but pleasure to meet you all, really good to see anglers prepared to make a difference. Really enjoyed getting damp and mud splattered and quite a pile at the end!!

Stu

yes it was great even got to see a chubb 1lb+ that was in a traffic cone which was pulled out

+ 8 bags of litter collected


Nice cone-free river (we missed a bit - can't ever get it all!)

That's not as mini as I thought it was. I presumed it was only a few feet wide, that looks as wide as most of the Colne near Staines.

A few other pics chaps









Himalayan Balsam, pulled

what another great turnout,really enjoyed today and nice to meet a few new members,especially stuart who travelled from essex
also noticed that the kids are really getting stuck right in

it was great to see everyone in high spirits,especially as this week has been very traumatic

also last but not least a big thanks to john the lochkeeper for the use of his kitchen and toilet

oh and can you put the chub i caught up for fish of the month i didnt get a pic,but i had 16 witnesses.

thanks to all,and may you have a brilliant season.

willie

rivers,the veins of the universe.

a couple of hours hard work and the pics speak for themselves
a mahoosive thanks to everyone who helped out
sadly I cant testify to the quality of the cuppa, we didn't have enough cups
a special thanks to john and colin the lockeepers

Figured out that the computer screen was in fact a flatbed scanner.
Have sent article to Rich.&Twick. Times with selected photo's
- What's with you 2 looking the other way in the main pic?!
- And did anyone get a pic of that Chub?

turned our backs to try and get tac logos and script ing to the shot not being camera shy was w agood day but i dont think that there is a picture of willie's chub great catch mate