Christmas Sleigh

Ossett and Horbury RT complete is annual charity christmas sleigh collection in Horbury on Wednesday 16 December, after starting 6 nights earlier in Ossett. We're currently counting up the money collected and will post details in the new year.

Thank you to the people of Ossett and Horbury for their kind donations.

Go Karting Championship

The annual Ossett and Horbury go karting championship took place on Wednesday evening at Thornes Park, Wakefield. 10 competitors, one 40 minute race, and pre-race favourite Alan was in confident mood, especially after qualifying in first place. Alan won (as usual), with the rest of the drivers unable to overtake John 'Petrov' in second place who was slow but impossible to pass. Ex chairman Karl was looking likely for his highest ever position in third place until Andrew attempted an impossible overtake and took him out, allowing Steve to take third place.

A great evening and we all hope Alan puts on some weight over the next year to slow him down a bit.

Area Quiz round 1

Last night, we played Selby Round Table in the first round of the quiz last night. Venue was the bandstand in Selby Park which was absolutely freezing, followed by a beer and curry. We were eventual winners after being very close in the first few rounds. Thanks to the Selby lads for organising a great night, and to Sid from Elland for being quiz master.

Karl

Cosmic Golf

Round Tables from across West Yorkshire joined Ossett and Horbury Round Table at the Cosmic Golf centre at Xscape in September to compete in the Shellmex Trophy - an annual sporting event in Area 9. The winners would be the Table with the lowest average score per team.

The event was won by Huddersfield Pendragon Round Table, with Halifax a close second, and Ossett and Hobury in third place.

Karl

National Champions

Last weekend saw Round Tables from across the country descend on Lancaster for National Sporting Weekend 2011 'The Lancaster Bomber'.

Saturday saw many Tablers competing in 13 sports, with Andrew Steel and Karl Ashford competing in the Boules competition. 5 games, with 5 wins meant that Karl and Andrew were crowned Boules National Champions.

In 2011, National Sporting Weekend comes to Leeds, and both will need to compete to retain their crown.

Karl

Clay Pigeon Shoot

O&H Round Table held their annual clay pigeon shoot in the last week of July, at Walton near Wakefield. As usual, Barry and his mate Roderick turned up with the guns and the clay pigeon launcher, and after 15 round practices per person, the competition began to win 'The Rock' trophy.

Ten shots a piece, with the winner being the one hitting the most clays. Andrew, as defending champion went first and shot a frankly disappointing 9 hits, with the rest of the Round Table being very confident that we'd get at least 10. Not. None of us could get near to his score, so Andrew's garage is the proud owner of the Rock Trophy.

Karl

Table on tour

Ossett and Horbury Round Table are going on tour - the next meeting will be on 14 April at the Silver King in Ossett. See you there.

2nd at Hike and Bike

Area 9 Hike and Bike returned to Castleton YHA at the end of April, with 26 teams from within and outside Area 9 competing to win one of the three competitions. The competition began on Saturday morning with the hike, which Ray Dance assured the organisers that was 'no more than 18 miles', which ended up being about 21 miles even after the organisers took 2 miles out of the start. As in previous years, teams had to get to checkpoints within a specified time period and would lose points if they took longer than the time period. A total of 400 points could be won from the Hike, and a further 200 points could be gained from the games that took place at the bases - the much loved and vomited bushtucker trial (taking spoons out of wallpaper paste, saw dust and maggots), dingbats, jenga and a water challenge.

The Hike was a tough one this year - mainly due to the mileage - and the last weary walker got back to the YHA for 7pm, but a free beer at the end made up for it.

Sunday morning came, and the bike took place around Ladybower and Derwent Water. As in previous years, there were 4 checkpoints to achieve, each with a number of points to be achieved, with the furthest away winning the most. Along the way, there were a number of questions that they could answer to win more points, with the maximum total being 400 points.

Most teams got back within the 2.5 hours timelimit ready for the prize giving. The maximum score that could be achieved was 1000 points across the weekend.

The main competition was unfortunately not won by an Area 9 Round Table (its only ever been won by Ossett and Horbury!), but Frodsham were worthy winners, scoring 869 points.

The plate competition, which is the Europa league of Hike and Bike, was won by Hull Wyke on 708 points. The plate competition is designed for those teams who started Sunday being more than 60 points away from the highest scoring team on the hike, as its not realistic for them to win the main competition.

The Area 9 trophy was left to be presented.. Ossett and Horbury were gunning to win it for the third year in a row, but in the end, Paul Manning's Halifax team won with 821, compared to Ossett's 740 points, and Batley a creditable third on 708 points.

Congrats to Marcus

Marcus Phillips was voted in as Ossett and Horbury Round Table Chairman for 2010/2011 at our AGM on 14 April 2010. Marcus' key aim this year is to raise the profile of the Round Table. We all wish him the best of luck.

Round Table Riots!

40 Round Tablers from across the UK descended on the West Yorkshire Police Riot Training centre on Thursday 11th of March to go on a riot!!!

In order to help train the police officers, the shy and retiring members of the Round Table spent the day being generally boisterous, throwing rubbing bullets and wooden blocks at the police and their riot shields, with Chris Bowen from Elland launching petrol bombs at the officers.

At the end of the day, £1000 was raised for The Anthony Nolan Trust, and we all ached for days. Karl

Happy 50th Birthday

Ossett and Horbury Ladies Circle celebrated 50 years on Saturday 6th March. As is the tradition, Ossett and Horbury Round Table members 'interrupted' the Chairman's speech, doing a sketch based around the theme of Blind Date. Great fun, and our congratulations go out to the Ladies Circlers for reaching their 50th birthday.

Karl

Area Ten Pin Bowling

32 people from 8 tables turned up in Leeds to play in the area 9 Round Table 10 pin bowling competition. The competition saw Selby’s Neil Porter deliver 7 consecutive strikes and send Selby to a storming win with a whopping 374 points. Huddersfield Pendragon and Elland battled it out for second and third place, with Huddersfield finally claiming second by one point.

Ossett came a creditable 5th place, with 270 points.

Karl

Quiz winners

Ossett and Horbury played Penistone Round Table in the Area 9 Quiz Semi Final recently. A night of high drama saw the lead yo-yoing between both Round Tables through each of the 8 rounds.

The quiz went down to the last question, with one of our Tablers needing to answer the last question and win 3 points for Ossett to win. Fortunately, our President Mark answered correctly, and we are now in the final against Elland.

Karl

Happy new year

Well, a happy new year, albeit belatedly from Ossett and Horbury Round Table.

Christmas was a busy period for the Round Table, spending 6 nights raising money for local good causes, whilst having a fantastic 'mystery' night out in Leeds.

January has come and almost gone and we spent a nice evening with former members of our Round Table on the 13th, enjoying a good meal and banter at Brook House, Wakefield.

Tomorrow night, we are playing Penistone Round Table in the Area 9 Quiz semi final, who beat us at the same stage last night. Will we win - who knows but it will be fun.

Karl