Herts,Beds And Bucks Herpers!!

[FoxyMumma]

Originally Posted by chris s

the one i posted up last nite
http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/gener...uton-meet.html

Ahhh must have missed that somehow!
hmmm Ill try and make it...

[Genetic]

Hi all

Welwyn Garden City

Paul...

[Willenium]

Lots of people very local to me. It's just crying out for a local meet. Maybe Hatfield or something so it's not too far away for any of us? Airfield pub is lovely.

[GAD58Y]

Quote:
Originally Posted by bizz
Underwaterworld in Stevenage is closing down, Ian is having a 50% off sale of everything in the shop, so if your looking for some baragins, now is the time


hello all
can someone tell me where this shop is in stevenage plz,as im after some lighting equipment for a new viv thanks

graeme

[DazedLewis]

I'm in Herts! lol

[Barry P.]

There used to be a successful club in MK which had approx. two hundred members which met in Bletchley on a monthly basis and had a very succesful annual reptile trade show held at Lord |Grey school. Unfortunately during the late 90s the club slowly disappeared. The Herts branch of the IHS is still going strong ,mainly due to the hard work by Carol, and I believe the Thames nad Chiltern group is still in existence which meets monthly in Amersham.

[FoxyMumma]

Originally Posted by Barry P.

There used to be a successful club in MK which had approx. two hundred members which met in Bletchley on a monthly basis and had a very succesful annual reptile trade show held at Lord |Grey school.

Oooh bletchley would be such an easy place for me to get to aswell, shame its not still running..

[Barry P.]

When the club was originally formed back in 1985 it was difficult for reptile keepers to get any expert advice and several local clubs were set up and flourished. It was reasonably easy to get speakers, Chris Mattisomn came to the MK meets on a regular basis and Robert Sprackland flew over from the States to do a talk ! Nowadays people no longer need to hear first hand from experts, you just look it up on the internet to find out your answer.
As a result fewer people attended the meets, not only at MK but at lots of the other local societies, the club at this time was being chaired by Lois Hook, who was also running her shop Northampton Reptiles, and I think it became an issue with the amount of time needed to run the club and keep the business successful.

[FoxyMumma]

Originally Posted by Barry P.

When the club was originally formed back in 1985 it was difficult for reptile keepers to get any expert advice and several local clubs were set up and flourished. It was reasonably easy to get speakers, Chris Mattisomn came to the MK meets on a regular basis and Robert Sprackland flew over from the States to do a talk ! Nowadays people no longer need to hear first hand from experts, you just look it up on the internet to find out your answer.
As a result fewer people attended the meets, not only at MK but at lots of the other local societies, the club at this time was being chaired by Lois Hook, who was also running her shop Northampton Reptiles, and I think it became an issue with the amount of time needed to run the club and keep the business successful.

Yeah, thats understandable i would imagine its very time consuming, it is such a shame though as meeting up with others who enjoy keeping and discussing reptiles is far more rewarding than searching the internet, well from my point of view it is, although for emergencies and the like the internet can be very handy.

[TashaS]

Im near Watford, Herts