Rather than relying on Essex to provide us with our run-outs I wonder if there's enough interest in organising one of our own next month , perhaps Saturday 11th or 18th February. Going down to the coast is perhaps the obvious destination and yes I know that its still a bit cold but we could always find a fish shop on the front for something to eat when we got there.
It's since been suggested that we make it either Sunday 19th or 26th - I hadn't realised quite so many people worked on a Saturday and we could also make more of a day of it , grab a pub lunch etc and possibly more people would come along knowing that they could bring their littl'uns, which with hindsight is probably a better idea. You can tell that I no longer have wee folk to worry about - what a selfish b88tard I am So we're now going to have to relist preferences for 19th or 26th ok.