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As threatened, ours is taxed and back on the road. I see no reason not to use it for the once a week shopping trip - might as well enjoy the brief trip out in some some small way. Not as if queueing to get into Tesco only to find half the stuff you want isn’t on the shelves creates much joy.

Got mine out today. Just to sweep out the garage

I thought it looked familiar. A couple of photos of mine from the Detling Kit car show back in 2009.

Evening all. I now have a set of carbon effect stone guards that fit correctly, ZK body with detachable arches. They fit like a glove, and even come with a strip of rubber edging. Not sure where that goes as yet, I guess its up to body line side. These came from Westfield direct. The FW type were way to big for my little ZK arches. They are being returned to Westfield. Im just waiting for the glue to arrive next. Tiger seal from Ebay I Will post a few pics when I get chance, and get to fit them.

this just up:

Ribbed for your pleasure

Looks a lot like the butt plug @RussH and I shared last night Edit: From a safe distance, of course.

You are right John and its one of the things I have been thinking about including whether some of the marshals can attend or want to attend as they are a little older than some and more vulnerable. Start line marshals will be close together and everyone attending would need to be self sufficient in terms of food etc and even toilets may be an issue. Signing on, scrutineering etc all pose problems that we might not be able to resolve. It is really difficult but I do not think we are at risk financially as we have not paid any deposits. It's an awful situation to deal with and the easies thing would be to cancel but let's wait and see how thing go over the next 4 weeks. Everyone's patience and understanding is appreciated and we will do our best for the club.

Just for fun, have a go and put up your video!! I tried and they are linked below. Endeavoured to make it funny but it is surprisingly difficult and I don't really sound like that do I? It was great to get into the Little Beast and do a warm up even though not allowed out on the road. Not to get too technical - I might show my lack of knowledge - Rover V8 3.5ltr 200BHP, carbs so smells wonderful, underslung exhaust, Powerlite starter with power cables from the national grid, and a very noisy Holly fuel pump! GO ON - HAVE A GO!!

😆 I actually typed shot glass at first but thought a rude joke would be better.

No good deed...

The government are in a no win situation and it matters not whether the incumbent is red or blue. What we need in this situation is a dispassionate and non-partisan analysis of what we knew and when so that lessons can be learned and implemented in future by a government of any persuasion. If the opposition were to try to make political hay by second-guessing based on hindsight, I would hope we would all see this for what it is. By all means disagree. Ask questions. Hold the governments feet to the fire. Honest disagreements are perfectly fine and we need more of them. But the minute any politician says "I would have done x, y, or z" is where the real problem lies because what any of us would have at the time and with the information available at the time is unknowable. As for the press reports, I've been saying for weeks that our press have served us very poorly in recent weeks. They are more concerned with their advertising revenue that actual reporting of facts. And this thought has literally just come to me... With lockdown in place I'm betting the traditional print media have realised they can really push their on-line subscription readership so maybe there is a case that the sensationalism of many of these stories is more squarely aimed at the bottom line than anywhere else. They seem to have forgotten to do their duty in all of this.

Reinforcing my point precisely Don, the papers report numbers like 18 million, three months, 20,000, because big numbers get clicks, I said the 3 months is an irrelevance in the context , which remains true, and it likely remains the case that restrictions at airports in January/February would not have had a significant impact on the spread of the virus in the UK, but would have affected the economy and probably killed our airlines completely. Sir Patrick specifically mentions early March where we got cases from Italy and Spain, this is where we messed up, reported cases in Italy and Spain combined then were less than 2000 and people had just started dying. That seems highly unlikely now, those numbers fooled us. With hindsight a shutdown of our airports, apart from repatriation, in early March, would have reduced the impact here by a huge amount. If we want to hold the government to account and learn real lessons for the future we need to be realistic about what we knew when, and how fast this happened - not bandy about irrelevant numbers and timelines. Acting so we are "not losing lives needlessly and not wrecking the economy " in the context of this virus is a tough call you have to admit.

Shame - gone and spoiled it now! 😁

Don’t forget your Cap.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52594023 Crazy. Not at the start of the infection curve, not at the peak, not during lockdown, I know the end of May sounds good.

Surprising how often that happens!

Hand made blower direction box and matrix... Getting there.... Just adding the vent tubing now...

Well that escalated quickly...

Deposit taken 8/5/2020

Something that has occurred to me is that whilst some have the luxury of motorhomes etc, what about officals and those who would normally stay in B&B / hotels? If they arent open for business then there is a bit of a problem.

I suspect the poll is a little too black and white to probably capture the nuances of most peoples situation. I think the timing in July would, if it did go ahead, make it one of the first events so that clearly carries some risk in terms of both attracting entries and support from officials and helpers to make it happen. I have some uncertainty as to whether my car will be fixed. I am waiting parts to be made by businesses that are currently closed and I don't know when they will reopen etc. Having said that if it looks feasible to go ahead, practically and commercially, I would wish to try and support it if I can. Its John's last year too. I am in the camp where I am starting to consider our cure for Covid to be somewhat out of proportion now to the risks and the collateral damage in particular to the economy and shutting down most of the health service will in the longer term lead to more lost life years than we will be saving. As such I would like to see more effort going in to get things moving back to normal as far as possible. But with the policy the powers that be are taking I can't see such an event happening quite so soon. August or September maybe but not July. There's probably no right answer so I would align with adrians view to manage economic exposure in such circumstances.

A bit disingenuous of the guardian to pick a figure of 18.1 million and three months prior to the lockdown. Most of that 3-month period is an absolute and complete irrelevance in the context of how this virus has been managed. One month before the lockdown - there were 2 cases in Spain, 4 in Italy, 9 in the UK, there had been no community transmission in Europe, and there had been no deaths. At that point we were still 3 weeks prior to WHO declaring a pandemic, and even on the 5th of March the Lancet published an article stating that the virus need not result in rapid large-scale outbreaks” So, more honestly, they might have asked questions about the 2 weeks leading up to lockdown, where the damage was done. Even in 2 weeks 3 million people would fly into the UK, or more with Brits coming home, so you can’t stop them coming in, and you can’t quarantine 3 million people. Options might have included closing airports to all but repatriations, selective quarantine, but how? I wouldn’t have diverted testing capacity from anywhere else. Temperature testing at airports is window dressing, needle in a haystack stuff, CNN reported that US authorities had screened more than 30,000 passengers by mid-February without catching any cases, and at least four of these passengers later fell ill with coronavirus. If I understand correctly nobody has any symptoms during the incubation period and many don't have any symptoms at all. So instead of the increasingly prevalent crystal balls, I prefer to ask, what should we have done differently given what we knew at the time. Which has been tough for every government on the planet, but will much better inform us for the future.

taken the other day after removing the mesh from the the bonnet

It wont be what people want to hear, but I would counsel the commitee toward minimising financial exposure. Im sure if in the event it cant be run that any club investment would eventually be returned in full, but this many not be the case. I work with a number of UK events - albeit larger and there is very limited prospect of anything happening this calendar year. Whilst we have our own on site crews for medical issues, Im sure the event woudl need the support of local services for ambulance etc and I just dont see that happenning. There is overwhelming support for lockdown still and fear (rightly in my opinion) - so whilst ive voted to say I'd love to get to the event and start the season - both true staements, will I really be able to as a higher risk individual? We all need positive thoughts at the difficult time, but in business I plan for worst case senarios and wait for plesant surprises at the moment. As aside, I dont think it right for admins to discuss individual votes in polls - However im also sure that like everyone right now that admin team are under incredible stress trying to keep the show on the road so should be forgiven. I can say running my business right now, its difficult to get the judgement right. So kiss and make up. As a second aside, loads of business right now are doing the right thing by thier customers despite this making things harder for them. The MSA wont be one of them until the last possible moment. Oh what it is to a monopoly. Stay safe and keep smiling.

Such high tension comments, I think you ought to see his good points and not (re)coil in dissent.... maybe we should set up a rotor to send him some (sales) leads and he's a winner...... Sorry couldn't help myself...... Nem.......

Is there not a halfway though where we continue to shield the vulnerable and older people whilst those who can, get the economy moving? I dont mean for that to be patronising to anyone but there's not really a non patronising way to say it.