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Thought I would start this now, as we have Aussie builders / owners and their Christmas day starts very soon !! So, for everyone in the club , have a very merry and festive Christmas

Glorious sunny day in Shropshire. A rare break in the seemingly endless rain. So what better way to go and collect the turkey from the farm :D

Lee has sorted through his photos and posted them to his Flickr account - I really must get round to getting him a full WSCC account so he can post his own piccies Anyway - here's the album - https://flic.kr/s/aHsmvHaH8B And a couple of the best images to whet your appetite DSC_8498 by Lee Ogram, on Flickr DSC_8465 by Lee Ogram, on Flickr

Cos, you'll be on the sauce early and won't be able to type by 11am you have a great Christmas too!

Wishing all a very good Christmas break. If your working, my thoughts go out to you. If your winter tinkerin’ hope it goes as planned. If your waiting for winter to pass for your next trip out, hope it passes swiftly. Above all, Merry Christmas to everyone and I hope to put faces to names next year.

Back in my days as editor of Hot Car magazine, I got invited up to the factory to test drive a prototype twin-turbocharged version of this. It was blisteringly fast, but what I will always remember is that it had a set of analogue gauges installed in place of the 'futuristic' digital dash used on the production versions. When I questioned this, the Aston engineer I was with looked over his shoulder and muttered 'They're f*cking useless – always packing up, so we ditched them for something that works while we're testing the car'.

Yep, echo that sentiment, happy XMas to all

Yeah you do. The best trailer EVER.

That could be frightening

Holy cow thats awful Dave. Thats just like an early kit car monstrosity dash.

Thanks and you can be sure we will

Thank you everyone, this is what I was thinking off, CTEK MXS 5.0 Fully Automatic Battery Charger.

Thanks Gary. Hope you and Trina have a festive Christmas and we will catch up one day

2 words come to mind........................ first one is 'Bell' . second one is 'End' .................... I rest my case , m'lord

How do you get the westy on the wall bracket ??????

Yep, here we go... And then presumably, even AM gave up on trying to make them work! Looks that only a (tipsy) mother could love aside, half the problem, apart from AM build quality at the he time, seemed to be that the controls and things were just beyond what the technology of the day could actually make work, in the harsh environment of a car. Wood trim aside, looking back at the photos, it's also remarkably plasticky inside.

You too Alan. See you at the xmas doooo

Haha..next someone will be saying that now Russ has his trailer he can go further btobfind the rain! In fact this year only had one damp morning at Donnington..rest were dry.. including t shirt weather at Bedford in April!

That looks awesome Tom!

Happy Christmas TJ and all your household Merry Christmas one and all, from the rather damp Someset levels

We don't do wet days do we.

No need to rush it Stu

To you also Justin and everyone else too.

Have a GREAT Christmas all

@Tom (T3OMF) - Cotswolds AO Agreed, I’ll rouse them from their slumber in Jan and see if we can’t get together early Feb?

Forget about zzrs you need to be looking at those pirellis in the list

Tickets and camping booked for the three days. Better get my car finished.

Doesn’t look like there’s much taking off? I guess they must be shut for Xmas

I took some great aerial shots of Gatwick the other day.

We met in Ashbourne, Trevor, Martyn and Sue, Scott, Dave, Ian and Lee in the Alfa We had donuts, as warm up for doing them later . Trevor had been up since daft o'clock making them from scratch and take it from me they were still warm and scrumptious, thank you Trevor. The kids came to photograph us and they were offered donuts too Bagpuss joined in to the Christmas fun Bagpuss' dad kindly fetched a car-less Dave with him. This will confuse you, a very young Trevor came. Moral of this story is don't put photos on facebook that you don't want Glen to grab and play with. We all took refreshment in the M&S cafe, enjoying looking at the stress on the faces of the shoppers as we relaxed. Soon time to depart, Scott was ready Trevors passenger gave me thumbs up to go We left the retail park in Ashbourne Waved at the shoppers as we went through the town and hit the open road There would have been more photos on the move as it got really nice when we were on the tops but Glen dropped the camera into the footwell. I am glad it didn't rain anyway up there, huh, did it hurt your nose when it hit too? Trevor and Snowy were at the back, with Lee following and taking photos, as we arrived at The Travellers Rest. Come on then Lee, let's have a photo of your nice Alfa, since you were kind enough to join us and bring your excellent photography skills. It rained all the way up until we got inside the pub and then the sun had the audacity to come out. Moral of this story is don't go up on the high ground when the forecast is dry. The Travellers Rest Good job they had a drying room, ooh it was lovely and our table was right next to the fire Glen and Martyn had some warm up juice And we all enjoyed our lunch. The chef and bar staff came out to take our photo, they loved it. I had a really good close up look at the traffic lights after we went for fuel It was raining again here, so bored with waiting Glen took a selfie. Arriving at the Santa train in one piece, just, we took up our usual parking spot in front of the steam engine Martyn and Sue photographing you, photographing me And Dave was enjoying his long hair rather too much, have you still got it on now? you settled into it like a 50 year old in a granny frock The kids loved the cars and the Santas, and especially the choccies that Glen was dishing out to them. I was still raiding Trevor for more donuts A great big thank you has to go today to everyone's family, we changed the day at the last minute due to the weather and it cocked up a lot of peoples plans. You have put your car and club first at a busy time of year and it is really appreciated. I hope it was worth it and you have all enjoyed the route and atmosphere as much as we have. If you need to escape next weekend we are having lunch in Bakewell, tin tops are welcome, German sausages are on the menu, gluten free is catered for. Have a great Christmas everyone