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Sale successfully concluded yesterday. The car is now in Cheshire and staying in the club.

Thanks for another great day out @Julie Hall - Peak District AO Thanks too for the Lake District tips. I’m sure we’ll be trying the out this year. 👍

Without, I suspect with, will drive you potty, as it’s not obvious what it is, you’ll get fed up of having to explain what it’s supposed to be all the time to the people that tell you you’ve got the logo wrong!

Thanks again @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for another brilliant day. Normally Julie takes photos of us members arriving at the start point. This time it’s her turn!

A low attendance today, anyone would think it was January. I mean, a muddy, damp surface of very cold tarmac in a light car with summer tyres on, what a driving challenge, I'll take that on. Andrew and Bill met us in Matlock We wiggled up the twisty Via Gellia road, it was 3 degrees at the top, then we went on our new road but in the opposite direction to last week. I can confirm that it is a cracking drive in either direction, sort of a 'Winnats Pass' on the level, it is to be savoured though, rather than a slaughter up a steep hill. Moving on we passed the Peaks of the Peak District had some action up the hills when we could and took the back lanes on the high roads, lovely driving and scenic too The big circular road to nowhere actually dropped us only 6 miles away from where we started, for us to sample the marvellous eating houses of Chatsworth. In the summer AND with a big group it is useless to try and get us into these places, they are just too full of tourists, but today they were mine for the taking. We arrived at our first venue sporting the 'rally car look'. The problem with the back roads is that they are scruffy farmers roads too, but hey, they were there long before us. We parked up in the half empty car park and went into the half empty cafe, great. I think Glen and Bill were trying to work out where the Porsche engine is, it's not under the bonnet, and it's not in here either It's defo not in here, but just feel how toasty and warm it is, you could wear your shorts! This is why you can't get in here normally, just look at the size of those humungous dinners, not bad at £10 each. Now here is a challenge, for those that just can't choose which cake to have, could you eat 4 pieces? And here is the reason why you can't decide We were moving on for our dessert though, to another of the Duke of Devonshire's fine establishments on the Chatsworth Estate, parking again in a half empty car park overlooking the beautiful estate village of Pilsley. Andrew's car had run perfectly all day again (remember he has a 2 hour journey each way just to get here so it's a good test) with the help of this fine club Andrew must really pleased with himself. We even got a window seat Bill decided against 'Roadkill' as his t-shirt might suggest and had a cream tea instead , as did Glen, while Andrew and I went for the bread and butter pudding with custard So here it is, another wonderful cafe in the Peak District, usually full and off limits Views over to Edensor Floor to ceiling windows to capture the views Neither Andrew or Bill can make it out next weekend (missing you already x) and I am not sure if anyone else is crazy enough available, so if you are hungry for it then drop me a line, Glen and I will be blatting about for sure. @AndrewBClarke I have not received the email that you have sent ? @BillyPee another place to go in the Lake District extra to Lingholm Kitchen is Lancrigg at Grasmere, I forgot to say

wash your mouth out young man 😊

How much are Martini paying you?

Is two sets of wheels not an option?

I have a Pixmax that I bought to learn how to cut with, I’ve upgraded to a large format Roland printer/cutter so the Pixmax is up for sale if your interested.

No gloves! I ought to add that I am not some kind of hard nut, I had just filled up with petrol and not put my gloves back on. The electric heated gloves have been on 1 all day and up to 3 when it turned colder on the tops. I am a wuss really.

I use a roland stika SV-8. Cuts with a knife,, no posh stuff like lasers.. but works well. I've used it for 10 years..with practice you can do some very small and detailed work. Much smaller than those of the pictures

I've seen good results from a Silhouette Cameo 4

I heard they were the wurst!

I used these for my doors. My doors are basically the same as the full doors but the bottom half only. I have two at the front and two on the bottom edge. The two at the front allow me to just unclip the other bottom two and the door opens like a proper door.

The over-populated will spill into (or take-over) the under-populated, with the sheer force of hungry numbers. They should be fabricators - that'll come in handy in the post-apocalyptic Mad Max outcome. And they can fix the Westie in the meantime.

Please note the time is 12.45 not 1.00 now