This evening we had our Monthly Blood Bikes Wales NE meeting, and on this occasion we combined it with a Christmas Party. The meeting was packed with people, most of whom were wearing Christmas Jumpers. I feel like I should own one for such...
Welcome to my Blog
This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
- Version 1: Was hand coded posts on my original Website back in the early 90’s before the term Blog was even invented.
- Version 2: Was on Livejournal
- Version 3: Was on the three-Ninjas site
- Version 4: (And hopefully final version) is here!
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
BBW – Talk for the Lodge of Rhuddlan Castle
Today Nev, Hugh, and Myself went along to the White Table meeting of The Lodge of Rhuddlan Castle, to give a presentation on Blood Bikes Wales. It was a well attended meeting, with a large number of Masons, and None-Masons (or not yet Masons) in...
BBW – Talk for Gwerswult Scouts and Cubs
This evening Neville Owens, Hugh Jackson, and Myself went along to visit the Gwerswult Scouts and Cubs to give tell them a little bit on what Blood Bikes Wales do. They were very well behaved, and asked a lot of interesting questions. The Scouts...
BBW – Sams Cafe Fundraising Weekend Cheque Presentation
Sam's Cafe had one of their week long fundraising events in aid of Blood Bikes Wales. The week had ended, and all the monies counted up and made ready, and since the sun was shining and all the Bikers were out We decided to pop along to collect the...
BBW – A Talk to the Broughton District History Group
This morning Nev, Hugh, John, and Myself went along to Broughton District History Group to give a talk on "The Story of Blood Bikes". The talk went down very well, and the Group gave us a donation of £45 which was increased by a bucket collection...
BBW – Sams Cafe Fundraising Weekend
Sam's Cafe is once again having one of their week long fundraising events in aid of Blood Bikes Wales. So since the sun was shining and all the Bikers were out and about on Saturday, we decided to pop along to help support the event (Edit: And to...
BBW – Donation from Berwyn Lodge
Today Nev, Hugh, Myself and the Duty Rider Chris popped along to the Maesgwyn Masonic Hall in Wrexham To meet up with members of Berwyn Lodge No. 7361. Their Worshipful Master and his good lady (Paul & Velda) recently held a Ladies Night which...
BBW – National Blood Bike Awareness Day
Today is National Blood Bike Awareness Day, So lets us take a moment to say "thank you" to the 1000s of volunteers who give up their free time to help support this wonderful and important service. There are multiple Blood Bikes groups across the...
BBW – 40th Anniversary of Volunteer Week
I first heard about Blood Bikes Wales when I was an organiser of the Charity 3-Day Motorcycle Tour's of Wales. In 2016 we had selected Blood Bikes Wales as the Charity of the year, and some Blood Biker's joined us on the tour, and at the...
BBW – The End of an Era
Four score and seven years ago, or at least a long time ago (I forget the exact dates, since it was so long ago but I am thinking 2018), Blood Bikes Wales (NE) moved home to the Maesgwyn Hall Masonic Hall. We had a container setup as storage for...