The Berkshire (Blue) Wednesday 16th March

[Merv_swerve]

I leave around 5:15 so should be there just before 7 - been relatively painless the ast couple of years

I am coming from Leighton Buzzard on Weds, are we talking half 5 depart to get there on time? Was planning on getting on the road by 6am.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Where are you coming from? In any event sounds like a good idea. I'm coming from about 20 miles away and I imagine I'll be on the road 6 at the latest as there is major roadworks on 2 key pinch points on my route.

The traffic in the Home Counties is dire and is getting worse as every year passes. Sometimes I wish I lived on the Hebrides.

I have lived on the Hebrides - you just have to put up with the sheep

I'm going from Leighton Buzzard

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I am coming from Leighton Buzzard on Weds, are we talking half 5 depart to get there on time? Was planning on getting on the road by 6am.

I like to be early so will be on the road from about 5:30 to make sure I'm not late - ex military - gotta be early

 

[chrisd]

I shall be on my way at 5am, who knows how long it will take ??

 

[rickg]

I shall be on my way at 5am, who knows how long it will take ??

You'll need to allow for your numerous wee stops :rofl:

 

[USER1999]

You'll need to allow for your numerous wee stops :rofl:

Um, I seem to remember you having a mouses bladder. Pot and kettle?

 

[Oxfordcomma]

ex military - gotta be early

You'll get over that Phil, my wife's father and grandfather were both RAF and there used to be a saying in her family about "Military precision" as a euphemism for leaving stupidly early. The older they both got though the more relaxed timekeeping became ...

Personally, I'm coming A34/M4. Google says 55 mins but Google doesn't drive as fast as I do so I'll be leaving at 6:30 at the earliest to be there 7:30. Why does golf involve stupid start times so much of the time? I don't get up at 6 for work EVER.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

It's taken me nearly ten year to get the wife into the mentality of being somewhere 5
Mins early

 

[JohnnyDee]

You'll get over that Phil, my wife's father and grandfather were both RAF and there used to be a saying in her family about "Military precision" as a euphemism for leaving stupidly early. The older they both got though the more relaxed timekeeping became ...

Personally, I'm coming A34/M4. Google says 55 mins but Google doesn't drive as fast as I do so I'll be leaving at 6:30 at the earliest to be there 7:30. Why does golf involve stupid start times so much of the time? I don't get up at 6 for work EVER.

Just a word to the wise, if you're coming off M4 and down through Bracknell and going down past the Sports Centre and Coral Reef on the A322 there's longterm roadworks there on the roundabout, and a new 'sequence' introduced this week that's been causing mayhem and long delays.

 

[richart]

Just a word to the wise, if you're coming off M4 and down through Bracknell and going down past the Sports Centre and Coral Reef on the A322 there's longterm roadworks there on the roundabout, and a new 'sequence' introduced this week that's been causing mayhem and long delays.

I will be flying in with Smiffy. Posh club bound to have a heliport.

 

[Crow]

It's impossible to make a definitive statement as I live in that general area and any option can go pretty manky sometimes as the volume of traffic is bonkers.

I was going to suggest that the M40 and then down past Wycombe & Marlow is more direct for you and a lot of it is against the flow of the going towards London madness.

However it really is a lottery and almost impossible to second guess.

My advice is leave early and have an extra coffee at the club.

Thanks all.

The above has been my route in the past and looks like it will be again, 5.00 start for me then and should be there just after 7.00 all being well for coffee and bacon sandwich.

 

[Blue in Munich]

I will be flying in with Smiffy. Posh club bound to have a heliport.

Those two hairdo's and the downdraught from a helicopter; the mind boggles………..

 

[JohnnyDee]

I will be flying in with Smiffy. Posh club bound to have a heliport.

Can you both get on a hang-glider safely?

 

[Crow]

Can you both get on a hang-glider safely?

They've asked Delc to glide them in.

 

[richart]

Those two hairdo's and the downdraught from a helicopter; the mind boggles………..

Superglue is your friend Richard.:thup:

 

[richart]

Can you both get on a hang-glider safely?

You are not endearing yourself to me. :angry:

 

[JohnnyDee]

You are not endearing yourself to me. :angry:

I did notice a big H on the clubhouse roof when I was there last November so naturally I assumed it stood for hang-gliders.

However these allusions by others to elaborate hairdos doesn't mean one of you is in fact Don Trump, does it, and that you are in fact both arriving in the Trumpcopter?

 

[richart]

I did notice a big H on the clubhouse roof when I was there last November so naturally I assumed it stood for hang-gliders.

However these allusions by others to elaborate hairdos doesn't mean one of you is in fact Don Trump, does it, and that you are in fact both arriving in the Trumpcopter?

Smiffy has a touch of the trumps from what I have heard.

 

[chrisd]

Superglue is your friend Richard.:thup:

As a Chelsea fan he's just resorted to sniffing it these days!

 

[Fish]

Okay, might come down the M40 then and cut across at High Wycombe, which is the way I've gone previously.

That's my route, it had me down as a 2hr journey last year but only took me 80/90 minutes, me and Tony were the first their, well early.