Your Turkey’s been stuffed and scoffed, your goose has been well and truly cooked, you made an arse of yourself at New Year’s Eve and now all you have to keep you warm, in this chilly austere January, is an uncomfortable shroud of bills to pay.
Don’t feel glum! Here’s some reasons to be cheerful… Coming in May…
Midlands Mini Meet II
Vapefest’s little brother returns to a creaky bar in Tamworth under the stewardship of pint-sized vaping internet TV superstar DaveK. Details have yet to be confirmed - Saturday 19th May at the Castle Hotel has been suggested (now confirmed) - keep an eye on Dave’s TackleBox show on VTTV for the latest breaking news. Coming in August…
UK Vapefest 2012
After all the pressure and stress of single handedly pulling off Europe’s biggest Vapefest you’d hardly expect Wayne to take it on for a second time! However the rumour is that, against Doctor’s orders, the great Cockney Chrome Dome is considering managing the event again. As the last UKVF was unexpectedly over subscribed (x4) there is talk of staging the event earlier in the year to take greater advantage of the extensive grounds of the Moat House in a more temperate climate than the drizzle and chills afforded by it’s traditional slot in October. I should stress that this is all a matter of conjecture but early signs indicate that we might see the next UK Vapefest some time in August…
The Moat House
35-36 Lichfield Street
Town Centre
Tamworth
Staffordshire
B79 7QQ
T: +44 (0) 1827 311972
E: info@themoathousetamworth.co.uk
W: themoathousetamworth.co.uk
The Moat House is a Grade II historic building located in what were once the grounds of Tamworth Castle. Built in 1572 by William Comberford as a family home, it sits on the banks of the River Tame. A rare family of 18 Black Swans live around the grounds. In 1815 the Moat House became a lunatic asylum. It is purported that walking the second floor corridors is the ghost of a young girl named Emily. It is believed she was locked in the tower by her father and died in a fire that originated from a burning candle. So it’s an old haunted looney bin - perfect!
HOW TO GET THERE
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The Moat House is a handsome multi-gabled Tudor mansion, standing within delightful grounds, secluded from Lichfield Street in the heart of Tamworth’s town centre.
BY RAIL
Tamworth train station (0.67 miles). Regular train services from London Euston, Nottingham and Birmingham.
BY BUS
The 461 bus stops the closest at “Sunset Close”, however since it’s only a short walk (0.3 miles), any bus serving Tamworth Town Centre would do.
10:00 Meet & Greet
12:00 Bar open
13:00 First Raffle Draw
14:30 Second Raffle Draw
16:00 Third Raffle Draw
17:00 CAMVIP/ECCA Charity Raffle Draw
19:00 PUB Quiz
00:00 Last Orders! SIGNING IN
For Health & Safety reasons EVERYONE attending, will have to sign in at the door. FREEBIES!
The first 30 vapers to arrive will receive a FREE Garry Dibley Box Mod v3!
The first 250 vapers to arrive will receive a FREE bottle of Totally Wicked Vapefest eLiquid! PRIZES!
Throughout the day there will be opportunities to win some fabulous prizes. The goodies up for grabs this year include a Gold Screwdriver, a Touchwood Jarrah, a GGTS SS, an Alpha UltraMax + RES, a ProVari, ten Janty eGo Tank sets, fifty dual coil cartomizers, 2,520ml of Vermillion River Eliquid and half a litre of RY4!! FOOD
A special festival cavery is being served by the Moat House at £6 a platter. The venue also boasts it’s own restaurant - Comberfords - click here to download a menu. Booking a table in advance is recommended. For those on a tight budget there are plenty of inexpensive eateries in the local area - click here for a random selection.
Free WiFi connection so you can blog, broadcast, and upload embarrassing photos direct from the event. Vapourmists Jim & Andy will be running a live photo feed throughout the day. VENDORS ATTENDING THE EVENT Lisa from Cloud9Vaping, Nick O’Teen from Decadent Vapours, Olly from ECigWizard, Cam from E-Cigz London, Hank from Hangsen, Tim from Intellicig, Toby from iVapour, Abe from Liberty Flights, Craig from Mirage Cigarettes, the Guys from ROK, Daz from Safercigs, Jason from Totally Wicked, Ian from Touchwood E-cigs, Benp from UK-Eliquid, Paula from Vapour World, and Garry Dibley (the Modfather). VENDORS SUPPORTING THE EVENT UK VAPEFEST COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Wayne, Fiona, Garry, Jaded & Scott
Click here for a little reminder of last year’s UK Vapefest…
The planning for UK Vapefest 2010 was already in full swing when I was still smoking cigarettes and totally oblivious to vaping in any way, shape or form. When I first heard about it, having seen Smoke2Vape’s video of a previous meet-up at York earlier in the year, and then realising that it was being held just down the road from me, I had to go!
It took a bit of rearranging of commitments, but that day saw me rising at some ungodly hour for a Saturday and making the short journey (via the barber’s) to Vapefest 2010 in Tamworth.
The Plough & Harrow
I arrived shortly before the scheduled 10am start and wondered around the Plough and Harrow’s exterior a bit looking for familiar faces, before taking the plunge and heading inside. I saw a guy with a very impressive moustache, and a Red Tornado head through a door and followed him into the function room, where various members of the organising committee and resident attendees were finishing breakfast and getting ready for the main event. Amusingly, I had to walk through a gathering of Plough and Harrow staff gathered around the back door for a smoke, and thought to myself – if only they knew….
I always find the first few minutes after entering a room like this a bit nerve wracking, but it wasn’t long before introductions started happening and name badges were being written and that broke the ice a bit and I started to feel at home. After that it was plain sailing and I felt like I’d known these guys all of my life.
So, here’s my summary of UK Vapefest 2010, Tamworth, England!
In a nutshell – the event was a spectacular success and a credit to the organising committee, Cat, Sav, Cliffy, Hifistud and Rusty, all of whom can be found on the UK Vapers forum. A quite staggering number of prizes had been donated by all of the leading UK e-cig vendors for raffles and the Tombola, of which I did rather well myself – more on that later…
One of the highlights of the day for me was the “Ask The Panel” session, which particularly got my interest as I was in it, representing newbies across the Isle. Sharing the podium with industry celebrities like Katherine Devlin of ECITA, Peter “Nick O’ Teen” Cole from Decadent Vapours, experienced e-smoker and retired vendor Dave (Hifistud) was a little bit daunting, but I think I blagged my way through it, and nobody kicked, punched or even insulted me at the end, so that was cool!
In between the raffles, tombola, ask the panel and performing of juice reviews with a live “studio” audience, my day was filled totally. There were so many people to meet that I couldn’t try and list them all now for fear of missing anyone out, but it was nice to meet the Vendors, Tim from Intellicig, Toby from iVapour (who relieved me of some cash I was carelessly wafting around – watch out for some reviews in the near future), Cameron from e-cigz.co.uk who brought along (and sold) a few GGTS, GG Slims and the new GGTB to look at and try, Abe from Liberty Flights and of course Pete from Decadent Vapours.
Pete had brought a huge quantity of nic liquid, glycerines, alcohol and one of every flavour concentrate that Decadent Vapours produce and was happy to demonstrate and guide us mere mortals in how to mix our own liquid. I came away with 5ml of Doppio Espresso, which I will be ordering some more of very soon!
Another real highlight, or highlights in fact were the raffles and tombola prizes, all of which were donated to be raffled in aid of organising the event. I won first prize in the first raffle, for the first time in my life, and it just so happened to be a Puresmoker Icon with batteries and cartos all included, donated by Cloud 9 Vaping. As if that wasn’t enough, I then went on to win a Tornado Compact kit, a load of CE-2 cartos and some 72mg juice.
But the best thing about the day was to witness, and be part of the Vaping community, to meet loads of people and not one of them bad, and to see, try and even on occasion leave with some of the best kit on the market. I’m already looking forwards to the next Vapefest, and will be doing all I can to arrange a local Vapers’ meet in the near future. Brilliant stuff.
Reproduced by kind permission of The Happy Vaper
VENDORS WHO ATTENDED THE EVENT
Toby from iVapour, Abe from Liberty Flights, Nick O’Teen from Decadent Vapours, Tim from Intellicig, Trog the Screwdriver Supremo and Garry Dibley the Little Gem Genius…
VENDORS WHO SUPPORTED THIS EVENT
UK VAPEFEST COMMITTEE MEMBERS
HifiStud, Rusty, Cliffy, Sav & Cat.
