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A great day out, lovely scenery and great roads ,Food ,ice cream and company all excellent . It was my first time up here and I loved it ,I can see why so many people join these run outs . In the words of Arnie I’ll be back. 👍 Thanks @Julie Hall - Peak District AO For being a great host and @Trevturtle for showing me the way back .

Second that - and thanks for welcoming the ex-pat. Great to meet you all and will definitely be up for doing it again if you'll have me. Perhaps not every week with a 2+ hour drive at each end. I actually made great time on the way back without too much motorway. Home at 1635 which was perfect 'cos at 1645 it started to pee down 😊

Oh what lovely comments guys, thank you, we have enjoyed every minute of today all because of you xxxxx We met at Matlock and there were Dave Eastwood, Ian Kinder, Andrew, Stuart, Trevor, Steve, Chris, Rob, Luke and arriving lastly was Bill. Bill was nearly as late as us, since I got in the car to a flat battery this morning. My headlight bracket had broken in the week and so Glen had fixed it and had used the lights a lot to check the alignment of the beam, draining the battery in the process to 7V. Good job we have one of these handy little clicky things. Matlock Matlock Tyre kicking in Matlock Off onto the country lanes through the villages waiting for a bus? No, just some Westfields until we arrived at The Queen Anne in Great Hucklow where we promptly compared cow poo. Dave won! At The Queen Anne where we would have sat outside if the wasps weren't so friendly PaulVX was waiting for us in his BMW 240i Ian and Trevor worry me sometimes as they seem to be very close to each other, don't mention rear wings to Ian though will you We all enjoyed our lunch in the pub and few people had to leave for family duties.Trevor had an idea and the troops were gathered let's have a group photo yes, here he is, trevtrouble Next is the most hilarious bit, we all got in our cars ready to go for cake, I had a last look around before setting off, to find Ian's car was empty. Ready? you will laugh at this, he had left his steering wheel in the pub and had sat in the car and done what? God only knows. He coming running out of the pub with his steering wheel shoved up his t-shirt, but we won't mention it will we? Speaking of steering wheels, I jumped in my car this morning and set off, late as previously mentioned, and drove down the road with a wonky steering wheel. The current husband had been feeding his cleaning OCD and had put the steering wheel back onto the boss in the wrong position. This is it with the wheels straight. With all wheels in place we took the lovely route to an outdoors cafe, The Smithy in Monyash and had ice cream. There was the usual large gathering of motorbikers, cyclists and walkers so it was a case of park where you can. We all dispersed in different directions from there. Stuart's satnav had said it was 2 hours 40 minutes for his journey home, so I think that is a record, well done Stuart and it is comforting to read that you had a good journey back. Nobody is local so you all deserve a pat on the back, not a cow pat though! Thanks for coming, being great company and good drivers, hope to see you all next time xxxxx

A great run out as always! Given my recent tinkering with rad, dash, EWP, throttle cable and gear selector, it was good to confirm correct operation of all items! Thanks @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for the planning that goes into these great runs! I 'think' this pic has all 11 Westfields in! Glad @Stuart got home dry! I did by about 20 mins. I susect others may have not!

Another brilliant day Thank you. Drive down wiggly roads with great views, eat good food with good people. @Julie Hall - Peak District AO thanks again for organising, it makes all our drives much easier.

See what you missed!

Yeah sorry, I’ll go back on the meds 😆

Don’t want repeat what has been said by the others so I will just say it was brilliant. Thanks for all the effort sorting out the route and for herding us all.

Seems I missed a good day out - the downside of Saturday jobs.... @IanK (Bagpuss) - you might have sorted your rad, dash, EWP, throttle cable and gear selector, but you seem to have mislaid your front numberplate 🙄

I wonder? Do Cavan and camping forums talk about owning a Westfield?

Fantastic day, horse/cow poo now thoroughly washed off car! All shinny again ready for next time. Great day, great friends, glorious V8 sound track in front, heavenly Honda’s behind! Fantastic. Great to see @Stuart and @Weekend Warrior coming up/over to join us as well as the regulars.

I know - I’ve actually been thinking the unthinkable - got a towbar already and drivespace for a small 2 berth. My wife looked shocked when I broached the subject - “what!!! You! A caravan! - you HATE caravans and whinge every tine we have to overtake one... hmmm could be a good idea”

Yeah top day @Julie Hall - Peak District AO and the wscc owners for coming out to play! 👍🏼

Just caught up on qualifying. Unbelievable - just watched it and the last 5 mins my jaw was on the floor. I just have one word. How?

Wash your mouth out this instant!

Yes, you need to play spot the birdie 😁

Have a good day Archie. Presume you got Lionel's rusty suspenders sorted out.. hope he behaves himself for you.

So, if you run with a fully roadgoing car, you are expected to go faster than the same car, stripped, no MOT to worry about, and Super Soft ZZrs? I'm not being an ass, honest, I'm just highlighting the lack of sense on the approach... I think that instead of deffending the ilogical approach when this things happens with the system we use (like the wet track Rule in some situations... and so...) it should be noted down and adressed with the aim of sanding down all this rought corners the system have.

He's called it Lionel because he won't call it by its true name, which is Chocolate Starfish.

If it’s dry I’ll be up. Hopefully see you tomorrow

Exactly, they ruin they day as they can rarely keep up

For sat nav, buy and download Co Pilot. We use that over the navara built in unit and our £300 tomtom unit. CoPilot allows size and weight of your vehicle and routes you accordingly. We use it with our 7m caravan and so far, including a month in France, no small single track lanes or cul-de-sacs etc... From memory it's about £35

Still planning on coming and meeting at Tomintoul but depends on waking up in time!!!! Will keep you updated on the day.

Sorry to re-float this... but, appears, once again, that class A has a harder Target times than C in one of the days. I'm not sure what maths are you using guys, but the formula that is giving as a result that a roadgoing car with road tyres should be faster than a roadbased-modified car with non road tyres, is obviously wrong...

Thank you all for the ongoing interest and for your patience. I'm waiting for exact prices. We have a location in the north and south. I chased confirmed costs this week, the moment I hear any news I'll update immediately. It will be this year with more planned for next year.

As you've discovered, it's really all about the layout and the storage . I took a career break with my wife in 2003 and lived in this for 18 months: At a little over 10m, it took some careful planning... We later swapped to a 6m Hymer A class, which I'd argue is the perfect size for 2, but when kids arrived we changed to caravans. Much as I like the current caravan, I'll be changing back to a 7m motorhome as soon as the kids are bigger and finances allow. No matter how much you research, you really wont know what suits you best until you try - so really assume the first one is just to allow you to work out what the second one should be...

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, thanks Geoffrey for the offer - I will most definitely join you folks (after my holidays the next two weeks!) Please see attached picture 😉

Sooty guys looking like I’m out !!! Just back from offshore and found evidence of water at the front of the car. Pulled the nose off and the rad is punctured somewhere!!! bl**** thing isn’t that old, I suspect that f*****n top dressing crap the council have been putting on the road along with the clowns who still do more than the 20mph signs have thrown a stone and holed the rad....gutted was looking forward to the day.