NEW YEAR FORUM AWARDS

[Graham]

We thought we would have a bit of fun and make some New Year Awards to our loyal members, its just for fun and there are no prizes unfortunately.

MOST POSTS (not including admin)
This award was very close but VIV came out on top with 535 posts a close second comes WENDY with 506 and third is YAMAHA with 334. Many thanks for your contributions folks.

LONG SERVICE AWARD
We have four members who are currently still active and have been with us since May 2006: WENDY, DEREK and JACK (Shedbrewer) but one person just pips them to the post MOYA joined in April 2006, she doesn’t get much chance to post these days but we know she is still reading the forum frequently, well done Moya and we hope all is well with you.

FUNNIEST POSTER
There was no competition here, this award has to go to YAMAHA who has kept us all smiling with his frequent postings in the Members Section. Well done Mike and keep them coming.

MOST HELPFUL MEMBER
This award goes to ANT from Avon Motors who has always been on hand to help out with his vast technical knowledge of Romahomes. Thanks for your contributions Ant you are a star. Also a special mention to DEREK who regularly comes on the Technical Section and helps out members with his pictorial posts to diagnose problems, thanks Derek.

MOST TROUBLESOME VAN
This has to be JAYJAY's van, she has had lots of problems with Daisy her demountable Bedford Rascal Romahome, hopefully with the help of other forum members her problems are now sorted.

FAR FLUNG POSTER
This award goes to LUNNIE who made us all jealous by posting from her holidays in Sunny Turunc, in second place was GEONOMAD who regularly posts from his base in Andorra.

MEET ORGANISER AWARDS
Four awards in this category go to:
YAMAHA for the Bridgewater Carnival Meet which by all accounts was memorable.

ROMINGTIM who along with Kris organised the Hayfield Meet which was a big success.

And finally JOHNS1 and WENDY get two awards for the meets at Devizes and Chipping Norton both were very enjoyable and well attended.

A big thank you to our all our Meet Organisers for all there hard work on some truly enjoyable meets.

DISAPPEARING MEMBER AWARD
This goes to HIDEHI who joined the forum in May and quickly got us all excited by organising a Meet at Corwen but then vanished never to be seen again!! Seriously if you are reading this Hidehi we hope all is well with you.

FUNNY OR INTRIGUING USERNAME
several contenders include chowzamma, snobbyafghan, ozziegrandma, lizziebythebeach but our favourite was BALDYBANTAM.

FORUM MASCOT
This goes to MARTINW’s dog NIQK who we have met at a couple of meets and he’s a lovely friendly old fella (so’s Martin for that matter ;D).

STRANGEST VAN NAME
We have lots of contenders here including: Rhonda (DJSooz), MiKel (Wendy & Johns1), Elvis (Jax), FreddyVan (Jana), Freda (Sotontraveller), Arnie (Dabs), Priscilla Van Morrison (Lizziehill), Daisy (JayJay), Rosie (peterholden), nipper (blondieandi), Sid the Snail (Jonnieandcharl) but our favourite was from ROBIN who has a Auto Sleeper Harmony and calls it Hairspray. Nice one Robin.

FUNNIEST PICTURE POSTED
This goes to DABS for the picture he posted of himself dressed as a Sheik Mustapha Bongo at a Bongo meet. Judge for yourself:
here

OUTSTANDING OVERALL CONTRIBUTION
Finally the best award of all goes to......................ALL OUR MEMBERS this wouldn’t be the best and friendliest Smallmotorhome Forum on the web without all of your contributions, many thanks and all the best for 2008 to all of you.

Graham and Pauline

P.S. If you can think of any awards we have missed feel free to post them here.

[martinw]

NIQK says - Woof Woof (thanks very much) for the award

Martin

[lunnie]

Happy New Year to All members and here's to hic hic to 2008!

[viv]

That was so funny Graham and what fun. Terry always says I talk too much. I also like to practive my touch typing that I taught myself. See how fast I can go, did you see how quickly I typed this. I must have too much time on my hands. I start work at the Palace soon so then I won't have so much time on my hands!!

Love all the awards. Happy new year.

[jayjay]

Daisy says thank you very much for the award and that she will do her very, very best to make sure she keeps the title for at least another year!!! That's if her owner doesn't birch her like John Cleese did to his car in Fawlty Towers! ;D ;D ;D

[ant]

Thanks Graham, its my pleasure.

A happy customer is always ultimately the most profitable customer and if a crisis can be turned into just an irritation, and the irritation can easily be soothed so the happiness can begin to return and the cycle resumes! It costs me nothing to be the ointment!!
Happy new year.
Ant

[jax]

How about Graham and Pauline for the "Good Egg" award for keeping us all strung together! Seriously, you both do a grand job and it is always a pleasure to get onto our site and see what's going on even if we don't contribute. Elvis has had a good Christmas and was overflow accommodation for various family members who said he was quite cosy. Mind you, they were mostly already well-heated before they climbed in. Elvis has been my only transport since the summer and he seems to be thriving on daily use. Thanks again for your dedication. Jax

[Graham]

Bless you Jax, thanks for that, but as we always say its only a really good place to come because of the people who post on here, and we've certainly got lots of really nice friendly people who come on to share their experiences and help each other out for which we are very thankful.

Regarding using Elvis as a spare room several people seem to have used their small motorhomes for that purpose it must be quite a common thing this time of year when all the relations decend on you. It would be a bit uncomfortable to sleep in ours because its parked on a slope, people would be rolling out of bed ;D

Regards
Graham

[moya]

Dec 31, 2007 12:59:07 GMT Graham said:

We thought we would have a bit of fun and make some New Year Awards to our loyal members, its just for fun and there are no prizes unfortunately.


LONG SERVICE AWARD
We have four members who are currently still active and have been with us since May 2006: WENDY, DEREK and JACK (Shedbrewer) but one person just pips them to the post MOYA joined in April 2006, she doesn’t get much chance to post these days but we know she is still reading the forum frequently, well done Moya and we hope all is well with you.

Just to let you know I am still here - I think

An extremely belated thank you for my award Graham & Pauline.
I can't believe that is two years gone by! Unfortunately I haven't even been on to read any posts let alone post any myself.
I haven't been well since before Christmas but hopefully back on track now. Our van and weekends away keep me sane - just about!

Anyway a very late New Year resolution that I have made is that I am going to make time to come on the forum regularly again.

One problem though. It will take me about a week I should think to catch up with everything.

The Forum Awards is brilliant and I enjoyed reading them all.

You both do a great job.

[Graham]

Hiya Moya

Great to hear from you, sorry you haven't been well and we hope you start feeling better soon and are able to get out and about in the van again.

We hope you keep your new years resolution because we love reading your posts and especially seeing your smileys.

All the best

Graham and Pauline

[Pauline]

Lovely too see you Moya, I know Graham has replied for us but just wanted to say a quick hello from me

[moya]

I have managed to read through the posts from all the new members on the hello page. A lot of new members since I was last on here. Shows what a great job you both do.

Even though I haven't been well we have still managed to get away in the van about once a month. Thats what has kept me sane. Thats why I love our Romahome so much. It is the best thing we did when we bought it.

Ok I had better crack on with trying to read all the posts I have missed.