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Please may I wish each and everyone one of you and your families a peaceful and very merry christmas. Please be careful with the brussel sprouts and your release valves. Stay safe and I hope you all get the presents you wanted. Cheers martin and emma

Happy birthday boss

Merry Christmas all. Hope you all get lots of Westfield parts! Looking forward to 2026 👍🏼

Have a lovely Christmas one and all.

Great, still want one 😁 maybe your bushes were pressed in originally with a little grease or copperslip (think I did this with mine)

Merry Christmas everyone. It's always a good day when you can see your club chairman on a photo with a turkey on his head. Have fun all !!!

Happy birthday to Martin, our new Events Man, thank you for stepping up to the committee role and we hope you have a great birthday today, Love from Glen and Julie xxxx

The webmaster would be the one to answer part two of the question; I don't know if it's been updated since, but it was a very, very, very old plug in, written for a much earlier version of the forum software, that neither plays nicely with the later generations of software, nor was particularly easy to update, without essentially writing a new plug in. As such, it's now become that elderly, somewhat crotchety relative that likes to sit in the corner and randomly respond to things on it's own, glacial time scale.

Two explanations, one highly probable, one barely possible but unlikely: 1) The system does not update that information instantly. It’s a sub-routine that updates the information periodically. Now that the other addresses are gone, it will eventually sort itself out. When? Sometime between now and The Rapture, I’m guessing. Sorry I can’t be more specific. Or… 2) Your fellow members living close to you are trying to send you a subtle message.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Merry Christmas one and all 🌲 🎅 🎁

Happy Christmas to everyone and thanks to those who have helped out with technical support this year.

Sorry, it is my niece's 18th birthday party on 28th. Have a lovely Christmas and happy New Year! See you in 2026. Luke.

Happy Christmas to you all.

Thanks @Captain Colonial. Yes I've moved 3 times in my 24 years of membership. It still hasn't updated my local meets though:

Happy Christmas everyone, Hope Santa brings you all the presents you want 🎅

I could be simple about this… but where’s the fun in that? I’ll bore you instead. I checked backstage yesterday, and there were four different addresses on your account. Only you can explain why, but I’m guessing that you’ve moved once or twice in the past. There are two different possible addresses on each account, a billing address and a delivery address. That’s because sometimes someone will buy a membership for another person at a different address. That’s where I think it went wrong backstage. You correctly updated your address in your profile, but the system retained your old addresses for billing purposes. Why? Eff knows. I also tried to remove the other three addresses yesterday and the system refused to let me, so I did the wise thing and walked away to get a glass of red wine. Today, they’re gone. No idea why, but they’re gone. So glitch gone as far as you’re concerned, which I will take as a win. Off for a glass of breakfast…

Merry Christmas to one and all have a great time🎅🧑‍🎄🎉🍷🍻 and now…..

Happy Christmas!

@mtownsend Happy Xmas to you too!

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a new year full of reliable, exciting, memorable trips out in our beloved pride and joys! 2026 will be a blast im sure!

Have a great day @Martin Aldred - Shows & Events Coordinator 🍺🎂

Well done excellent tool your decision to make that extra long threaded nut is definitely the key to success with this ive heard others using similar tools that rely just on a standard nut have failed with stripped threads

Just renewed my membership. Despite me changing my address in the system 9 months ago, the payment page still defaulted to my old address. I changed it again to pay, but it still went back to the old one in the confirmation Also, I now live in Hampshire, but my closest meets are still apparently Cotswold, Warwickshire and Black Country. None of this is a big problem, but it does seem to suggest that something may be awry in the back room.

So finally had a chance to get into the garage to sort the worn bushings out and try the tool i made. I made a couple of modifications including adding clearance where it butts up against the wishbone as some have larger welds than others, and also to make a custom nut with a very long thread to try to avoid stripping threads. This also makes it easier to use as a socket no longer needs to fit in. I can confirm that it worked - I knew two of the bushings were worn, but ended up replacing five as I found some of the others were worn. This was all I had to hand and I haven't even started on the rear suspension yet. Photos are the tool with modifications, the tool in use for removal, and the end result with the removed bushing on the tool. Installation was easier than removal. I changed the front upper bushings on the car without removing the wishbones so it ended up being relatively easy. I don't know why this worked when others have needed so much force for removal, but there was no significant rust at all so maybe that made it easier?