{"id":5891,"date":"2025-09-04T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:37:03","slug":"fancy-dress-paddle-and-bbq-2025is-thursday-2nd-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/2025\/09\/04\/fancy-dress-paddle-and-bbq-2025is-thursday-2nd-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy Dress Paddle and BBQ 2025is\u00a0Thursday 2nd October!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss our annual end-of-river-season Fancy Dress and&nbsp;Torchlit Paddle and BBQ!<br><br>The BBQ&nbsp;s \u00a34 per person (the paddle is free). Please book with Jean or Gail at a Tuesday or Thursday session.Dress up yourself and your boat however you like (but keep it safe, you still need your buoyancy aid!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget your head torch, and decorate your boat with&nbsp;lots of lights as we paddle back in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please be at the river for our normal meeting time of 6:00pm to allow plenty of time to decorate your boat.&nbsp;We will have judging on the bank before the paddle starts. There might even be a prize!&nbsp;Then we&#8217;ll paddle upstream past the railway bridge and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please add your name to the attendance list in the boathouse. This will also reserve you your boat of choice (kayak or canoe) on a first come first&nbsp;served basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then it&#8217;s BBQ time outside the boathouse!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our fancy dress paddles started in 2010, before that they were just torch lit. For inspiration have a look at photos of all our fancy dress&nbsp;entries over the years. Click on the year to see them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/afAMzCRRYLYgbG4j9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/oWEEMN6PwW4MYStv7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/DDCjwmF3hYqYtu4K6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/FLTn3tSLXA1fYpYb9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2021<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/udXRGVZ4iKb7rJch8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2019<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/HE7W43JzkVmfNWcF9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/RglkwkdoiUEYe56o1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2017<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/uhivZ7h9ZFrBb9ht5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2016<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/w7E6Vu1e5pDU4yfGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2015<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/m34AoeJzLzXoHGQi8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2014<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ZQavaTWUio4hwmMm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2013<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/DCvCdyQC6kqu88We9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2012<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ZB2fAREhdWm2mGZP7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2011<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/xcFcRftjEa2K7wgq5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss our annual end-of-river-season Fancy Dress and&nbsp;Torchlit Paddle and BBQ! The BBQ&nbsp;s \u00a34 per person (the paddle is free). Please book with Jean or Gail at a Tuesday or Thursday session.Dress up yourself and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5892,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions\/5892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}