Ipswich Branch Blog

The ride to Glasshouse Mountains has been postponed as there is a working bee that day to put the slabs down for the bench that we are donating, start at 9:30 at the gardnes, see you there!

The ride on 8th August is postponed, we have rides every other Sunday, we could however have a coffee run if anyone has an idea.

Reminder that our Branch meeting is this Friday. 7pm at the 'Ippy'.

Denis' (Dusty) funeral will be held at 11am Monday 21st at Warrill View Crematorium, anyone riding to accompany the hearse shoiuld meet at Yamanto shopping centre car park at 9:45. A get together will be held at Tom and Kylie's after,Contact Tom 0407655050.

If you are going to Tom and Kylies after the funeral Monday can you please let them know so they have an idea how many to cater for.

Thank you

Please wear Club patches and Branch Shirts.

Chopper

Branch Members, I am sad to inform you that Denis lost his battle with Cancer yesterday, altough he was not a member for very long the club meant a lot to him, even with his health failing he tried to get on as many rides and attend as many meetings as he could. He will be sadly missed by his wife Cheryl and family and by our branch family.

Details of the funeral will be given when known.

Chopper

Saw Denis yesterday and he was pretty zonked out. Ambulance took him in for re-assessment to Ipswich Hospital. Saw Cheryl this morning and they"ve taken him off Morphine which was causing the problems. He has asked for Cheryl to bring him in a coffee and computer mouse so it sound like goodish news. He is much brighter and is expecting a scan and hopefully home on Monday.

Baz

Update on Elaine from Warwick District Branch.

She is demonstrating a great internal strength by maintaining her health. She has been in an induced coma since the accident for her safety. During that time they have done some critical operations on her wrists, spine and face. She still has to endure a lot more in operations to repair her other wrist etc.

On a very positive note, they brought her out of the induced coma on Sunday for a little while and during that time she was abl...

Hi Guys, can we please remember that we need to respect other members of the Branch. Couple of instances recently that don't sit well with me and hopefully are 'one off's'.

Thanks

Chopper

A huge congratulations to Spook for being acknowledged by the National Committee as a worthy recipricant of Telemuchus Medal number 116. Spook has been a great ambassador for the Ipswich Branch since our inception 6 years ago and I thank our branch committee for putting forward the nomination for him. The Telemachus Medal is awarded by the National Committee for services to a branch and is a very prestigeous award. The Ipswich Branch now has three holders of the T.M. The first being our fo...

I put this up earlier, but it vanished

www.immortalgraphix.com/

 

 

This is a web site for spook to look at some tank protectors. I have an account, so if spook emails me on rossand [email protected]

I can order one for him.

Crash

If anyone is interested in joining me on a ride to Laidley's ''Eagle Rock Cafe'' this Sunday, 22nd April for a coffee, be at Yamanto 9am. Just a cool down ride after our Texas trip, home early for the football. Spook.  

Hi guys, hope everyone is well,  Sue and I are in Sydney next week for anzac day, i'm looking forward to that as i've never been to Sydney.

I'm back in the saddle again, yay, I'm really keen to catch with everyone next month. I'm also keen to lead a ride, I have a good one picked out.

Stay safe everyone.

From Ross (crash)

Ps keep those photo's comming in, I always look for them.

I just wants to say thank you for looking after me when I had some tire problems far away from home.

I'm in trouble now. Anni think I have been naughty. She reckon I rode like a maniac and the flat tire was one of my punnishments.

To my defence, I was just trying to keep up with the ride leader.

Anyway, we made it home with a few stops to pump up the back tire.

Thank you Sue and Peter for taking Anni and our stuff all the way home to us. Oh - and Anni don't wanna ride ...

As some of you may be aware at each National AGM there an invitation to each Branch President / Coordinator, Secretary and Treasurer to attend the Extended National Committee (this year in SA on Friday 11th of May). 

fyi:   The Extended National Committee meeting is an official meeting of the National Committee of the Ulysses Club Inc. and is an ideal opportunity for committee representatives of each Branch to meet fellow Branch Committee members and to be invo...

Ride report to Cabbage tree, first when i got up it was raining but it was 4:30am so i was still going, Ado rang and said it was raining up at Yamanto

but like a real biker I was going, so off I went 5 minutes into the ride and the drive belt broke so Ray whent and got the trailer to pick up my bike

and take it back to his house.  Then we went to McDonalds at Yamanto in the tin top, were there was 6 bikes ready to go on the ride so we ll went

for a cupper.  I will ...

Thanks to those who the AGM last night - all went smoothly and it didn't end up being a late night for us all.  For those who couldn't attend ... we missed you.

A special mention and thanks to Spook for taking on the Presiding Officer role and thanks for his kind words of encouragement for all to participate in the branch activities. 

The Gold Medal goes to the Ipswich Volley Ball Team:

Pres Adrian 'Ado'      Secretary Amanda 'Bling'   
...

From NATCOM March Intercom - just in case you missed it.

 

"Annual Membership Option

You asked for it and the National Committee is pleased to announce that members can choose to pay for their membership on an annual basis rather than three years up front, while the three year membership remains. The annual membership renewal fee is $40 and will be available from 1 April 2018 (no, this isn’t an April Fools joke…)"

Friday night is Infomeeting night.

It is also our AGM so can you please check your ulysses membership card and see if it is current and of course bring the card along to the meeting.

Hope to see you there.