8th March

Thanks one and all for coming out on this, our last for this season of scatter rallies. I hoped you all enjoyed using a part of map 187 that we seldom use, there certainly are some good lanes down there albeit slightly busier than the equivalent lanes of Kent.
Sorry about the wrong plot on clue 3, I just didn’t see the correct white on the map when I was working things out. I don’t think we’ve featured on the local news as yet ……. Men seen waving torches outside elderly lady’s house!
Apart from that I know every clue was there even if some were hard to find …! It’s always easy as an organiser to tell people, ‘of course it’s there, on top of the gate into the field’ but I know myself how they can be b******s to find at night.
A pity we still can’t get more out on these events but perhaps a different night and more importantly, a Weald scatter championship will improve things when we return in October.

The result:

Driver/Navigator	Car	Club	Points
Ian Crocker Daren Hall	Honda Civic	7Oaks	170
Andy Ayling Neil Ayling  Frank Collins	Peugot 206	Croydon	150
Andy Elcomb (him) Viv Elcomb (her)	Toyota Corolla	7Oaks	135 (2 mins early)
Chin Ralph Travers	Opel Manta	7Oaks	135  (1 min early)
Ian Phillips Russell Coleman	Vauxhall Firenza	Chelsmford	90
Colin Rodger Molly !!!	BMW	7Oaks	85

Mark dawson

Scatter Chatter...How the Competitors saw it...

Ian Crocker..Well it was lucky Sam (Collins) didn't turn up or he would have suffered the humiliation of losing to 'Old Flat Cap' and the Grandad Civic!  Of course, most of the credit goes to Daren (Hall) who was on the maps.
It was a good event.  I always dread the '187 map' because there are so many roads with speed limits but Mark had some cracking roads.  Loads that were covered in mud and you never got out of 3rd gear.
There was the usual bonking couple in a car park.  So near the start that I expect all the entrants disturbed them!  And then the bad plot by Mark.  The less said about that the better...  Oh, alright. It ended up right next to a house in the middle of nowhere and I mean RIGHT next to it.  I said to Daren "It can't be here" and he said, "It must be, it’s a straight forward plot".  The house was dark and had security bars on the windows.  While we were searching Frank Collins pulled up too.  As we drove off the lights had come on in the house and a little old lady was peering out of an upstairs window.  I expect she thought she had a load of perverts in her driveway and the Police were probably already on their way!

Andy Elcomb….Well she was right about the perverts!  Yes, good event and nice to be out in very unfamiliar territory.
Viv & I decided that we had to let some others take the spoils, so we just pottered around in the 1300 Corolla taking in the scenery (visually that is, not in through the front grill).
We did get too close to the scenery once though - right by the bonking car too. Having not found Mark's white-tagged electric pole (did anyone get that one?), I was three pointing and had backed towards some greenery when the back of the car went down significantly. Yep, I'd dropped the back wheels right off the road and the car was sitting on the sills.
But hey, took more than that to stop us. Viv offered to push (yeah, right), but was better off applying pressure to the right pedal while yours truly stood in the ditch and lifted the back of the car up - what a hero!!
3rd place was ok for us, but I really must put a map light in, it’s getting boring just using torches.