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Ssh, don't tell anyone, but I might have miss-read the time for this! I swear the last few meets have been 10 am at the Artists Corner car park!! still lovely run over, if you ignore the occasional heavy rain,

With icy roads on the tops, plan B was put into action, so lunch with a difference it was then, pork pie, cheese, biscuits, pickled onions and pickles, yum, yum. But I had promised ice cream, so, firstly, I found an ice cream farm near Matlock that was serving mince pie flavoured ice cream. My more traditional method of navigation, the JulieNav ( memorise the route basically, with reminders on a bit of paper), failed me today because I turned left too early, and the ice cream farm was only a 4 minutes drive from the Artists Corner car park. So we can practice our Christmas songs '4 minutes drive, 3 point turn, 2 seater car and a plonker in a Westfield' sorry guys. Glen thanked me kindly for parking next to the pile of poo, right where he steps out of the car, it's hard enough getting out of the car with the roof on, avoiding the hot exhaust AND now the cow poo too. I didn't laugh...much. The Ice Cream Farm in Matlock. Martyn and Sue, Dave Eastwood, PaulVX and Pat (in the GT86). After our strange breakfast option we headed East, away from the rain, to arrive at The Travellers Rest, Apperknowle for lunch. It has far reaching countryside views, real fires, real ale and is famous for its food. Beef stew in a hollowed out loaf of bread and the pork pie platter. Erdinger Weissbier and a Fuggle Bunny real ale to wash it all down with. Paul, one of the Derby/Notts areas biggest fan, with his Dick Spanner t-shirt on It rained all day and the roads were filthy, bring it on It was only half past one and we needed a sweet, did we? well maybe not, but it was the last day that The Tea Junction at Hulme End was open, as the owner flys off to Australia for the winter, so we went for kisses and goodbyes. We went for a monkeys tea party really, and the roads were better this way. Slack Hill plus Vtech, oh what fun we had. The Tea Junction, Hulme End The monkeys tea party And still it rained I did have to check my own instructions for the start time, I have no idea why I chose 10.30 and not the usual 10.00. It was funny though, because it was raining and there is no cover at the car park, when I arrived, we all stayed in our cars and I got Dave to ring me so we could discuss what the plan was. In future we will meet at the Sainsburys in Matlock. It is the Santa Run next weekend, but the weekend after that we will re-instate the Blaze Farm run. Thank you to everyone for coming out to play on such a freezing, wet day, I love you all, kiss, kiss.

Just arrived back home after another fantastic day in the Peaks. Didn’t get the hood off once, and the wipers were needed much of the day, but didn’t take the shine off it one bit!

Well sold Mr King, so Chris , get yer wallet out ....................

Glad you got out Dave. After last Sundays ' nuts frozen' drive and this week being colder, I decided to go shopping for the latest wifes 50th birthday present. Seems I spent less than expected , so I may have some carbon fund left !! That does look mighty cold in the picture.

As a trial member you have limited upload capability. Full membership will give you loads of space and is a bargain when you work out the benefits both financially (cheaper insurance for example) and in terms of the wealth of knowledge you will have access to. Sales pitch over!

Playskool will have 10 wide body caged cages for £850 each inc vat to be delivered before the end of the year. Plus £100 delivery inc vat - or collect from playskool or caged 3 of the cages are specified to fit the factory mounts, the rest are for earlier chassis without any bosses on. First come first served Straight from the horses mouth (Luke’s driving and asked me to post on his behalf)

Couple of photos of the mx5 6spd vs 5spd. Just for reference. 6spd above 5spd. Dont have image of Rx8 box though.

Enjoy and stay off any Pate Ice Cream I've got a trot round Wilmslow this morning, so can't join you. I hope the weather is kind for all of us!

Following on from my post a few weeks ago where I received some lovely kind words We had all decided that we weren't ready for a dog free house yet. We had tried the local rescue centres but as we have kids they would only rehome a pup with us. So after a few phonecalls and a drive up to oban in the snow we now have this little ball of energy to keep us all on our toes! An 8 week old border collie called Archie. He's already picking fights with much bigger opponents!!

Depends on the type but my SB47s half hood is fixed onto the rollbar with turnbuckles. Look neater IMO than those fixed to the tub.

Like the look, my Rover type mirrors are a pain, I cannot seem to adjust them into the correct position, and they lose adjustment easily,might take one off and see if I can do something like you. Where did you get the new mirrors from?

There seem to be at least two variations of Westfield half hood rear fasteners. The early ones, like I have are long enough to fix on the rear of the car, similar to the photo above, but only one strap each side, not those inverted v arrangements, like the Soft Bits hood in the photo. Since then, I suspect from what I’ve seen on a few people’s cars, that they’ve been redesigned and made shorter, so as to fasten on to the rear stays of the RAC roll bar, (or MSA bar, depending on hood version). But really, as long as you can get sufficient tension on the rear straps, and that they’re solidly mounted, there is no right/wrong way particularly, just what suits your car. So if you have a tonneau cover, you might need to mount them slightly differently to if you have an open boot box, same if you have a boot lid. Note the side straps use the same press studs that the tonneau cover/roof uses, so again, you might need to move them, or better still change the relevant press studs on the tonneau cover to the back to back stackable type. Photos of the set up you have at the back of the car, and the version of half hood you have might help us?

Trailer test, what’s one of those? Sometimes being an old git has it’s plus points

What fixings do you have ? They either fix to the roll bar rear tubes or the body. I have the stock roll bar, so mine are body mounted.

Banshee Motorhomes are fine and welcome for camping G

Doing the classic for the first time next year with a mate who has an Ultima - hope he can keep up with me

I don't really know why I'm posting this, I'm feeling a little traumatised. It might be upsetting, so please bear in mind if you want to read on. This afternoon, Beth and I were first on the scene to a very serious car crash, I'll keep the details brief as Im sure there will be an investigation, suffice to say it was a head on collision in a remote area. For those who don't know, Beth's a Doctor. We stopped, assessed the scene and their was one major casualty. Beth did her stuff, myself and two other guys had to drag him out of the car to perform CPR. 4 of us fought for 15 mins to save him, but he was pronounced dead when the Air Ambulance turned up. Its brought home home how fragile we are, but also how strangers pull together to help, what a great job the emergency services do for us, and how careful we need to be in our westies. It's not nesscessarily our mistakes, but those of others that can determine our outcomes. Stay safe, I need a drink.

Sorry folks. Not on for me/us this weekend. Have a good one and keep those Westie’s in a straight line!!