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Here are a few of my holiday pictures for anyone who may be interested. A cracking little cafe right next door to where we stayed in Keswick called The Filling Station always had interesting stuff parked outside and lots of yummy bikers. We managed to find a V8 Marlin who was also on holiday. Heading out to the Honister Pass, video going on YouTube soon. That's all folks, hope you enjoy.

Must be nice to want to talk to a passenger.....or have the power to carry all that extra ballast ! Wouldn't be able to get any sense out of my kids as they just SCREAM........and my wife wouldn't have anything sensible to say anyway.....?only knows two words whilst in the car.....SLOW DOWN ! Got NO mates....I voted UKIP.....and the others already have 'sevens' !....

Hi Called into Ty Croes at the weekend and this clip came up in conversation a couple of times, seams it still makes people chuckle so perhaps worth a repost for the newer Speed Series competitors who missed it first time round Also thought Graham would appreciate how you should react when it all goes a bit pear shaped ;) Watch the whole thing for a wild ride on a damp track with a predictable outcome or if you have a low boredom threshold skip to 5.30 mins So, long long ago in a galaxy far far away when the GGR car was yellow another opportunity to have a laugh at my expense CAUTION, contains swearing not work or children safe! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZfMjsMsQg

I will try to get along but we are off on holiday on Friday so may just be a short vist and then back to packing! Bring along all the silverware Martin (just leave the rain at home!) Keith

Hi. Thanks for the pictures. You have no idea how much I wanted to go on both days. I wont discuss my movements...and I don't mean poo..... In the public eye but all Friday night and also Saturday I so wanted to throw a sickie but to be honest that's not my way. I often go over the moors and potter about on all sorts of roads up there just to see where I end up but I was itching to the west ride. I must have checked this forum 20 times a day on my phone hoping for pictures. I once said to you I loved the colour of your car.... and I do. Your car is beautiful and it looks really smart with the bags on the back and the peaks on the lights. I really do like the "touring look" and to be honest that's more my type of thing. if there is one place I want to go with Buttercup it is the top left of Scotland and just to drive the road round Loch Eribol............don't even know why I said that here. lol

Thank you again to Martin for another great day, what a top bloke. Here are some pictures from the day, sorry Buttercup for the delay, we really are going to have to show you how to dob a holiday in at work so you can join us when we are on your doorstep, that's twice in nearly as many weeks!

The problem I had was my son is still a teenager and the noise his side was great on a local blat but anything above 30 minutes was leaving a ring in his ears So I invested to save his hearing ...

Its his age

Well, nothing distracts from the truth more than a crazy conspiracy theory It's reckoned that most of all the UFO, Roswell, Area 51, aliens related crazy stuff was actually leaked by the military in order to keep attention away from defence related activities and projects during the cold war era (makes a hell of lot more sense than little green men). Find one crazy person, give them an idea, wind em up and let them loose.

You're beginning to sound like David Iycke.

It's no good asking people who have them, when you've spent £15'000 on something you don't turn around and say "actually everyone was right, they're not saving me anything at all". They have a placebo effect, you kinda just assume they're saving money because that's what the salesman told you. But I think even at current rates, 15000 in the bank is going to collect more interest than it'd save attached to your roof. They're also becoming a bit like conservatories, once one person gets one, the whole street has to keep up. Even in mid summer, with full light on them, they're not enough to run a high power appliance. What you are in fact doing is paying to have your house used as a solar generation point. You don't have batteries, so your not storing what you generate. If someone came to you and said "we want to stick a wind turbine in your garden", you'd say "hey, f**k off, not unless your paying me.......", equally if they wanted to turn the neighbouring field into a solar farm, everyone would be up in arms. But with some clever marketing they get almost exactly that, only you pay them for it. Solar water heating on the other hand (much more efficient that converting light into electrical power), that could be a massive money saver and really quite easy to DIY the panels with the raw materials. I've actually done some initial experiments and managed to heat half a litre of water to near 170c in just short of 1 hour. Whilst my solar power experiments have been nothing but a disappointment. I'm all for being "green", but lets do that by making stuff last longer, instead of ramping up production of consumer goods and making them last less than half as long as they should. Just my 2p worth

And "if you never try you will never succeed" I do like to stay positive you know or have you guessed? Terry

Dave - I got a video up eventually ! http://youtu.be/EAgDlUsqHQY

3rd and 4th May 2015. I certainly hope so as we've already booked the Marquee!

I hated this, then Tumble put it all into perspective. Now I hate it a little bit less...

Hi Folks Car is worse off than me but hoefully not as bad as last time! Thanks for all the support and help after the event A very special vote of thanks to James Alexander for allowing to use his car in a dual drive so at least I could get some points on the board! What a totally different experience in the Mighty Cross Flow Thanks again James G Free