Fundraising Day - 5th August 2006

[squeakypigs]

[font=Georgia]A big thanks to everybody who came to The Guinea Pig Forum and Barmy 4 Boars Fundraising Day.

Here are the pics from the day. If you took pics, please feel free to add them! :) (My camera battery ran out - typical!!)

Raffle Prizes

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraising3.jpg

Food Table

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraising1.jpg

Pigylmpics

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingpigylmics1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraising2.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingpiglympics.jpg

Alison

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingalison.jpg

Carolone and Lucinda

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingcarolinelucinda.jpg

Kelly and Guinea

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingkelly.jpg

Luke after doing all the bbq

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingluke.jpg

Alison and Spock (;))

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingalison1.jpg

Me, Susie and Kate

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingelliesusiekate.jpg

Susie and Lucinda

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingsusielucinda.jpg

Standing Around

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingstandingaround.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisining4.jpg

Group Pic with Guinea Pigs

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/squeaky-pigs/fundraisingdaygroup.jpg

Hope you all had a great day. I did! It was so great meeting you all!!

[cashmincal]

Thank you for the photos! :) I so wish I could have got up there.

Clare xxx

[alisont]

Yay great pics from a great day!

Heres mine:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2277.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2276.jpg

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http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2282.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2281.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2280.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2279.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2273.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2272.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2271.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2270.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b323/alit32/IMGP2268.jpg

Alison :)

[squeakypigs]

Thank you for the photos! :) I so wish I could have got up there.

Clare xxx


Perhaps we should set up that sometime we have something more towards the south such as going out for a group lunch.

It is a shame that you could not make it today - would have been good to have met you! :)

Alison - I love the pics... Can't wait to see everybody elses like Susie and Kellys! :)

[snugglypig]

The photo's are great ;D wish I could have been there
You can all come to me here in Ireland next year, Lol

Guinea's looked so happy too :) :)

karen

[starshine]

Lovely pics guys!!!

I love the group shot with all my piggies in! As they all hate each other I think its the only time I have ever seen them all together!

I had a really wonderful day - thankyou so very much to everyone who supported us on the day. You are all wonderful!!

[bevs]

Spock is soooooo handsome :-*

Looks like a good time was had by all :)

[squeakypigs]

Spock is soooooo handsome :-*

Looks like a good time was had by all :)


Alison has got her eye on Spock at the minute lol. My mum fell in love with Paddy and Murphy so she has got those two! :)

It was such a good day. I hope that everybody who came enjoyed themself too!!

[kellyandpiggies]

My photos!! I never took many though! :D

Lucinda and Spock (I think! )

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/Kelly_and_Mike_Player/forumdayout1.jpg

Me holding Treacle who I wanted to nap!

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/Kelly_and_Mike_Player/forumdayout2.jpg

My mum (Suey) with Paddy and Murphy - Murphy took a shine to her!

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/Kelly_and_Mike_Player/forumdayout3.jpg

My Guinea!! Loving his melon and also decided to pee on a few people!

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/Kelly_and_Mike_Player/forumdayout6.jpg

Group shot!!

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/Kelly_and_Mike_Player/forumdayout4.jpg

[starshine]

Treacle looks so lovely in that picture Kelly - she really took to you as she can be very shy sometimes!

I hope Guinea and Ton enjoyed their melon when you got home!!

[kellyandpiggies]

Really took a shine to her!!

Ton stuck his nose up at the melon and wouldn't even try it!! He scoffed the lettuce though! ;D

[Lucinda]

Absolutely fab photos. It's taken ages to get through to the thread today!

Brought back lovely memories of yesterday.

I love Spock and do hope Alison has him. Would love him myself, but he couldn't cope with all us girls. ;D

[Barmy4boars]

Hey Guys,

Like you all had a fantastic day ;D. You are a lovely bunch :D! Only got in at 10.45 pm, had all kinds of train troubles! Stranded in stockport for 45 mins when the service to Manchester Victoria was cut short, then when next train from Stockpot to Manc Vic came we were at a standstill because of signal problems... >:( then a late train on the way in to Halifax held me up too :o(!!!). Never mind though it was sooooooooo worth it ;). Can you believe there were enough pigs for one each for the piccys? With leftovers. Kelly please say "Hi" to Ginny... he did you proud. Also fell in love with Hannah (wow!!!!) and was already in love with all of Kate's piggers. Sorry I didn't post my piccys yesterday, I started to but I was whacked after being up since 4.30am

Here are my pics I've tried not to post pics that are the same as those already posted but have saved some of yours too. Never seen such a fabby group pic with Piggy's in it too ;D


Ellie and Debbie with the adorable Hannah (not Ellie's sister Hannah, the piggy Hannah!)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/EllieandDebbie.jpg

Hannah! :o :)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/Hannah.jpg

Debbie and Sue cuddling Max and Paddy... Congratulations Debbie. We all knew you had fallen for them yesterday though! Hope Spock ends up finding a new home soon ( ;) right Alison?)
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/Cuddlingpigs.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/Debbieandpig.jpg

Caroline with Spock
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/CarolineSpok.jpg

Caroline with Kate's Oscar
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/CarolineOscar.jpg

(Caroline had a cuddle of all the pigs I think! :)

Alison with Kate's famous Guinea piglympic Athlete Roo...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/Alysonnroo.jpg

Ellie with Winnie, Me with Tommy and Kate with a pig... (please excuse my eyes/face :D)
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/EllieSusieKate.jpg

Can one person run 3 BBQ's at once? Luke can! Give the boy a gold medal... oh yeah we already did (in the piglympics) ;D
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/LukeBBQ.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/LukeBBQ2.jpg

Me and Kate's Tommy (my how he has grown!)
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/MeandTommy.jpg

Luke and Ellie with Tommy and Winnie
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/LukeandEllie.jpg

Now the next pics I saved 'till last. Ginny was a real star. He was so relaxed when everyone was fussing over him, sitting on his Mums shoulder and checking us out. Then we had a game of (very slowly and carefully) Pass the Ginny parcel and Ginny got a cuddle from everyone. Cheeky Monkey Peed on pretty much us all, me and Ellie received a wet patch in the crotch area thanks to this guy (bear in mind I was getting the train), he narrowly missed Kate and Lucinda got lots of poops in her lap! ;D Lucky us. Then when Ginny had met his public he went in to a little run in the garden and ate some grass and some melon. He had a hidey house but he stayed out to keep an eye on us all. He is excellent! I am soooooooo jealous Kelly!

Mike and Ginny
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/GinnyandMatt.jpg

Ginny
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/Ginny.jpg

Ginny in his run
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/GinnyRun.jpg

People Cooing over pigs
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/b4bcavy/forum/cooingoverpigs.jpg

Big thanks to Ellie and Kate- they are the ones that have put in all the hard work making the day possible and to Carol and Luke who were also little troopers behind the scenes. And to everyone who supported the day by donating, buying raffle tickets etc... but especially all of you who attended you made the day a success and a lot of fun too! Looking forwards to that final total :)

[squeakypigs]

Big thanks to Ellie and Kate- they are the ones that have put in all the hard work making the day possible and to Carol and Luke who were also little troopers behind the scenes.


Big thanks to Susie who did all the Pigylmpics posters and score sheets e.t.c. They were fantastic!! Carol was an absolute star too with sorting out all the food and making sure everybody had everything they needed. :) Luke did really well handling 3 bbqs too! - I said the pic of him you posted Susie could be used for advertising BBQs lol


And to everyone who supported the day by donating, buying raffle tickets etc... but especially all of you who attended you made the day a success and a lot of fun too! Looking forwards to that final total :)


And of course thank you to everybody who came and bought the raffle tickets. As I have already said, it was great finally meeting you all!

Also... a HUGE thanks to those who donated the lovely items for the raffle. :D

[starshine]

More beautiful pictures - thankyou all for sharing them!

I have saved loads to remember the day by!

[kaoskat]

I tried to stay out of these threads since I couldn't be a part but I just had to stick my nose in and now I'm terribly jealous! Looks like you guys had so much fun! :D

[Lucinda]

Such gorgeous piccies. I love the ones with me and Spock ;D

Also it's a super pic of Kelly with Guinea - kelly looks fabulous (oh, and so does Guinea)

[DebbieR]

Those pics are lovely. It looks like you had a fab time. ;)

[starshine]

It really was a lovely day!

I'm still tired from it today and now have to put back all the junk I hid to make the house vaguely presentable!

[bevs]

Oh no don't open that cupboard door........ aaaahhhhhhhh avalanche 2funny 2funny

That's what happens in my house ;D

[princessguinea]

AW, WOW! great pics. too bad im on the other side of the world! :'(

[squeakypigs]

For everyone who has posted pics of the day, please could you email me the full sized pics to the_fire_burns_red@hotmail.com so I can get the photos printed :)

Thanks anim

[Lucinda]

Could I get some printed too? How would I do that?

[squeakypigs]

Alison is going to either send me her pics via email or disc and Susie has sent me some via email. If Kelly doesn't mind sending me hers then I will get them printed off and anybody wanting copies can get them from me! anim

[kellyandpiggies]

I'll send you my ones Lucinda! I'll email them to you Ellie - you want all the ones I put on the forum?

[squeakypigs]

Yes please... need the full sized pics as the resized ones wouldn't look very good when printed.

Thanks anim

[alisont]

Ive sent mine to your email addy on here not your hotmail one? Hope thats ok!

Let me know if you got them?

Alison :)

[squeakypigs]

Ive sent mine to your email addy on here not your hotmail one? Hope thats ok!

Let me know if you got them?

Alison :)


They worked they worked!!! Thank you very much Alison.... I really apprciate it. If you would like any of the pics I took (which is not many!!) let me know anim

[alisont]

Yay it worked :) glad you got them, im keeping mine on the memory card to get printed at Jessops - after my hols to Prague in 2 weeks as its £10 for 100 7x5 pics.

Alison ;D

ps keep lookng at a certain photo!!! dads said we will get the hutch out tomorrow - will see what its like then................................. ;)

[staffie lass]

Knowing Dads and daughters I think this sounds very promising Alison Good luck keep us posted :)

[alisont]

I really hope this works out, i need to look at hutches tomorrow. I might need to post photos to see what everyone thinks of the hutch and how low it is. Will need to see how Jed is if prehaps i put the girls in there for a bit. Now hes older he tends to ignore the guineas! Parents are not too keen on the idea at the mo ;) mum reckons if i had my own house id be overrun with guineas....me never ;)

Alison :)

[Lucinda]

Ellie, I would love a copy of that lovely one of me and Caroline.

And any with me and Spock ;D ;D ;D

[alisont]

Can i have a copy of the group one to start with?

Thanks Alison :)

[bevs]

How is Jed these days? with his leg?

[Barmy4boars]

Can i have a copy of the group one to start with?

Thanks Alison


Yeah I have e-mailed you a copy Alison ;)

[alisont]

Thanks for that :)

Hes doing well thanks Bev, going for short 1 mile walks each eve with me, still limps sometines but thats expected as he will get arthritus now. Vets pleased, his visits there have gone form weekly to monthly now, after next one should go to every 2-3 months.

Alison :)

[squeakypigs]

Got my photo album today I bought off eBay for the fundraising pics to go in.

Here is the link to the pic of the album I got :)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&item=180015772882&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

[squeakypigs]

42 prints - £3.19 inc delivery from Snapfish.co.uk - Thats a brill price :) 10p per print with first 20 prints free!!

I have ordered the size 6"x4" which my photo album is for the next size up but I wouldn't have got 20 free prints if I had the bigger size :) If anybody wants prints of the fundraising day, I might be able to give you the website address of the ones I have uploaded are on so you can just order them straight off there!!

[Barmy4boars]

Lovely album Ellie- bet they will look nice in that.

[kellyandpiggies]

42 prints - £3.19 inc delivery from Snapfish.co.uk - Thats a brill price :) 10p per print with first 20 prints free!!



That's great for the amount you're getting!

[cutecavy]

Wow looks like you guys had so much fun!! I wish I could have gone - well done for the great organization also! :)

[staffie lass]

I have just been looking at all the lovely photos again, can`t beleive a whole week has gone by already such happy memories of the day I would like to say hello to everyone I met on the day, and also tell you Debbie how great it is to see Paddy and Murphy so happy in their new home enjoying being peeping toms ;D ;D

[squeakypigs]

I was at my mum's earlier and Murphy is always standing on two legs rather than 4 lol. He LOVES starring in at the other boys. :P

It is sooooo funny :)

[staffie lass]

It is so great they are happy now after their bad start in life Murphy knows your Mom loves him bad eye or not ;D ;D

[squeakypigs]

lol his bad eye is cute. It makes him who he is. :) Can't imagine him with a "normal" eye now!! He is the funniest little boy I have ever seen!!!

[Lucinda]

Paddy and Murphy are so gorgeous ;D

[Janella]

I'm so jealous I don't live in the UK :-\

I so wish I could of been there, I'm glad everyone enjoy themselves

[furryfriends (Excellent Adventure Sanctuary)]

It was a great day and I came home with the most gorgeous little boys. Paddy and Murphy are such great little characters. Can't believe they have been with me a week already although they have settled down so well its as though they have been part of the family for ever! :)

[michellemuffin]

I tried to stay out of these threads since I couldn't be a part but I just had to stick my nose in and now I'm terribly jealous! Looks like you guys had so much fun! :D


totally agree with you, shame we are down south never mind the photos were brillaint