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I though you might be interested in the passage through Bangkok Airport. Thailand is virtually Covid free and I can now see why. On leaving the plane, through the gate and onto the pier, you are escorted through tape barriers onto the moving walkway. At the end of the walkway there were rows of chairs and loads of security and people all kitted out with PPE. You are told to sit and a nurse takes your temperature and photograph, then checks your paperwork, all 17 pages of it. then she pins a number on your chest. Once that is complete your are sent to a security guard who then checks your paperwork, all 17 pages of it He sends you to a desk where all your paperwork is checked again From there to another seating area where you wait while they pick people out at random to check their temperature and paperwork Then its all stand and follow this person along the main concourse, but in a walkway defined by tape barriers about 6 feet apart, and into the immigration hall where its the usual routine, passport, visa, paperwork photo. Once clear you are escorted to the baggage claim and told to go to gate 9 when you have your luggage, here you are met by a lady who, yes you've got it, checks your paperwork, takes your photo, and makes a phone call. A guy arrives, he is our driver and escorts us to our cab, he then sanitises all our bags before putting them in the cab and off we go, he has a clear acrylic screen partitioning the passenger compartment from the front. At the hotel we are met in the car park by 2 young ladies, all kitted out, while they take our temperature and check our paperwork our bags are removed from the cab and sanitised, placed in the lift and gone, when the lift comes back we are told to get in and press 30, no one gets in with us, at 30 the doors open and a guy, all suited up points to an open door, in we go door shut, quarantine begins I can see why Thailand is in such a good place, and I am happy to comply with any rules they have. Contrast all that with our experience back in March when we flew it to Heathrow after being stranded in Australia, at a deserted Heathrow we passed through the normal immigration desks, picked up our luggage, got in a taxi and drove home, no checks, no questions, no temperature check nothing, I was absolutely disgusted, its no wonder GB got into the state it's in.

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Hi all, I've had my Westie since last spring, a SEiW 1800, and can honestly say I have loved every second! It was a long held itch that I needed to scratch, but with job, three (expensive) kids and the general chaos of everyday life, it's taken me until now to get my act together! Got there in the end though The club has a been a great source of information and expertise whilst I was looking for a car and since, probably answering lots of daft questions ranging from what to buy, what to look for, how do I jack it up, exploding indicator pods, fuel tank gurgles and the list goes on! I bought some bits and sold some bits too. Even answered a couple of questions! I have had a great time during the summer and put a good few miles on the clock, but as yet, only manged to frightened myself witless once - but haven't managed to meet up with any other Westie owners. I guess we need to factor in the whole Covid thing too though in fairness! I read the prior thread about Somerset & Devon which got me thinking. There is a bit of a gap between Bristol / Dorset and Cornwall and there were quite a few folks that had responded to the prior post expressing an interest in getting something going in the Somerset / Devon area. I live in Minehead - gateway to absolutely nowhere at all, but kind of in the middle of the area! So..I had a few really helpful exchanges with Ian Tolfree (Tolf) to see what might be involved and to check if it was ok to put a toe in the water! (thanks Ian - really helpful!) I'd be interested to see if we can get something going in the area and to volunteer some time to act as an AO. I work for the NHS and the last nine months have been a stinker, and there's a few more to come, and so I'd have to juggle around work and family stuff, but very happy to give it a go. I'd be really interested to learn: who's out there that would be interested? where you are? what you drive? What you're interested in - drive outs, touring, regular meet up, racing, sprints etc? And especially - Is there anyone that would be willing to share the load a bit? If you are interested then it would be great to hear from you! I'd be happy to collate the responses and summarise and if there are reasonable numbers and interest, see if we can get something off the ground? Just to be clear, you probably all know more stuff than me, drive better than me etc! I can't offer you Westfield ninja skills, engineering excellence or race prep insight, but I can maybe offer a bit of enthusiasm and willingness to give it bash, get some stuff organised and see where we go! So, if you are in the general area, are interested or can help, then I'd be really pleased to hear from you! You can either drop something in the thread or send me a mail! Also, if you are a local AO that can give a few pointers and maybe consider a joint event or something then please give me a shout too! Thanks and looking forward to the swathe of replies! Now pouring a huge drink! W

budget for an entry fee of around £100 to £120 a day. LDMC run great events at Anglesy and 3 sisters and you have to attend our own Blyton weekend

It typically ranges from around £120-£240(double headers) in terms of entry fee. Then you have fuel, food, hotels on top. I have budgeted £250 for a single event by the time I had in various costs but it depends on the event, Where you are travelling from, consumables. I am coming from Bristol so the northern and wales rounds are the big costs mainly in fuel whilst towing my car. thanks pete

I suspect that the penalties for non compliance in the middle and far east nations are both more severe and actually enforced rigorously as well so they have a real, discernable deterrent for breaching the rules. Completely agreee about the self-obsessed self-entitled nature of far too many people here in the UK too.

Can you imagine the p******** and moaning if that was implemented here? There is no way 'we' would accept that, despite the fact it is an entirely sensible thing to be doing. We are simply too damned stroppy in this country to let that happen - everyone is way too obsessed with themselves to consider the good of the group. Remember the crowded beaches in the summer? Everyone complaining how busy it was and that they had only come down for some fresh air and what were all these people doing here......then the tons of garbage left behind.

Impossible to be sure with the mask on but am pretty sure I used to work with the bloke in the 2nd pic who's waiting on the red dot

An incredibly depressed and somewhat melted Anglia maybe

The handbrake uses two spot pads operated by the lever assembly on the calliper. They can stick with lack of use and I doubt it needs a new calliper. attached is the procedure for adjusting them The inner grub screws hide behind the hand brake cable. So you need to release the cable by undoing the pin holding it to the lever first. You can send them back to Hispec for an overhaul, if you don't want to fix it yourself. There's a good diagram here: http://www.hispeccalipers.co.uk//svaultralite.html Was your MOT guy a kit specialist? HiSpec Brake- Setting up and adjusting the SVA HB.pdf

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Have you looked in the downloads section on here.? If not im sure someone will have a copy to share

Absolutely, we welcome all and any members to explore the role, as the more AO's we have the better, this great club can be. Ignore the comments above, which could be taken as negative! I'm sure this isn't the intention of those who've either done the role in the past or are current AO's.