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Taking place on Saturday, 3rd to Sunday, 4th July the Yorkshire area are having a weekend away in memory of @BugMan, Steve Pitt. We are taking over the White Horse Inn at Rosedale Abbey for the night. The day will start early meeting at 9AM to leave at 9:30 from Skelton Grange service station at J45, M1. The first stop will be at the NY 500 cafe near Pickering at 11:30 for a lunch break. After that, I'm not sure where. The route has been planned by @shutty1971, @marcusb, and @Rickyboy100 in a pub!! There is still a single room left if anyone is interested. And if anyone wants to join us on either Saturday or Sunday, please let us know so numbers can be arranged. Let's hope this is a fitting tribute to Steve.

Most of us have been where you are and it's a difficult thing to make and to deal with... its never a decision we have to make other than with our pets. Deciding on when is the most difficult part of it. Over the years, we've had 3 cats, 3 dogs and 2 horses put down. All of them have been a case of putting their welfare before my (or our) emotional needs. Whether it's old age, illness or injury it's never easy and feels heartbreaking. The only advice I can offer is that we all know in our heart of hearts when it is the right time, trust your instincts and do what is kindest for them. Animals can bring us such joy when they they are here, but the brightest candles always burn out the fastest.

That’s Clan McWesty for you - great bunch and just how this club should be 👍

There's two types of people in the world - McWesties, and those who wanna be McWesties!😁

Back home in NZ, many years ago in Auckland there was an explosion as someone was welding a no-smoking sign at a petrol station!

Our honourable chairman ‘flat out’ in his Westie!!!!😴

Hi Chris it was pretty short notic that is trip went ahead but we had a great time on some fabulose roads

Booked. 👍

MSV do a rewards card thing.. MSVT REWARD CARD Simply pick up your reward card at any point during your track day and get it stamped at the registration desk each time you attend an MSVT track day as the main driver. After collecting your second stamp you will be eligible for a 10% discount off your next booking. Please remember to leave your completed reward card with the registration team so we can email your discount code to you as soon as possible. Your unique Reward Card discount code is used at the checkout stage of the booking. However.. at the moment due to covid? they're doing it on line. So I was informed today, if you've done two MSV days recently, email them and they'll send you a 10% discount code to use against your next day.

...........and here is photographic evidence, just don't ask me for the route ask @Rickyboy100 😆

It's not following with the same band, it's the song title that would be a problem!!!!!

I should have been clearer I wasn't saying that lockdown mk1 or even possibly mk2 were the wrong thing to do under the circumstances. However they aren't all good and that was my point. Yes they save the lives of some but also probably had the opposite effects on others and possibly more than covid in the long term. However there seems to be a massive fixation on covid and all the other issues are getting far less focus. Which in my opinion is very wrong. However regards the current restrictions I am vehemently against them. We have a 'world beating' vaccination programme. Our vulnerable are fully protected. Whilst our cases are skyrocketing the hospital cases are crawling up and deaths remain flat. In fact the key metric according to Chris whitty is excess deaths, and they are 3 to 5% Less than the 5 year average. This proves the value and effectiveness of the vaccines Yet we are still causing untold damage to people, businesses, industries etc by keeping restrictions in place.

I stopped at Stirling Services for fuel on the way home yesterday. £1.60 a litre for 97 RON, and I'm the one that had to wear a mask! 😳🤬

Errr that’s Sierra SDV then 😁

Just had a great weekend Up North. Two nights in the Twice Brewed Inn, over 500 miles, really good. Seven cars started and seven cars returned. Jeff the Joiner organised everything, from the accommodation, which was perfect, to the roads, which were also perfect, although maybe a bit bumpy in places. Already booked for next year.

Great run on Saturday. Always made to feel welcome despite not being a Westfield driver. Good to catch up with everyone again. some new roads for me and despite a couple that were a bit poor surface wise, thoroughly enjoyed the day. Bob

It is indeed a sad question. One I think you already know the answer to. He seems to have come to the last stage of his long life, you are very lucky to have had such a good long life together. I think you will know when it's time. Thinking of you Jude x

Anything under a 40i or a 35i is not worth looking at. Deffo You indeed need AT LEAST 326hp to overtake confortably and pull from stop lights quick as a lightning...

Yeah my Croft day was £150 ish instead of £199 with club discount and a few points 👍

#GnuToo

Ok so update number 3 Javelin have come back and the current discount is what we would get as an independent group booking anyway so i will just make sure we always have a current discount code. I was reminded that we get 5% back as reward points as well for each booking as long as you have an account set up so that’s another little perk as with the others are willing to support a club only day at a venue somewhere but did point out that TDO will start getting there preferred date in the diary with track by September so I will look into the option for the club and will likely have to get a poll together for where we are likely to get most members attend and the price bracket members would be happy in paying. Just waiting on track obsession to come back now with an update and we have a very solid relationship with most of the big TDO in the country then. Cheers Simon

1. Me @Simon Waterfall Syman84 2. @Chris King 3. @Tony Smiley 4. @Jack T 5. @a15cro tbc tonight. confirmed thats a nice little group even if we get no more.

An OK day I reckon. The track seemed very busy at times, with a smattering of knobheads in the mix. my car ran OK mostly. Still got an annoying gear change problem.. will have to have yet another shot at fettling the gear extension. Got a good little session with @Mole, but unfortunately the gopro power supply let me down and it failed to record. Dammit! (Not really a GoPro issue, more to do with the crappy cig lighter socket power supply) However I had a session with Phil in the Molemobile which I have got and a session with the lad in the Megablade. (Non member and forgotten his name already 😞 ) As Scott says, rains came at about 4, wasn't going to swap wheels so got an early start home .. only to get stuck in a jam on the A1 for about an hour. Only took a handful of pics in the paddock.. Molemobile was too far away in a posh garage. 😉 Another Pinto! 😎 Scotty Fireblade Pintosaurus

Booked! Been out all day at a funeral and then to the pub, I was convinced it was going to be sold out by the time I got back home.

By the way, I'm in Hingham, just West of Snetterton.

Nigel Kennedy created the album "Music in colours" with Stephen Duffy, who went on to form Duran Duran which he left in 1979 (one year before they signed to EMI!) so hears a Duran Duran song without Stephen... Should make the next link easy! 😂

Good day today, loads of dry running until the rain appeared at 4pm. Somehow lost the passenger side mirror glass which flew out over the bumps at the chicane 🤔🤣 and managed to get through a full tank plus two full gerry cans of fuel. A few red flags (2 caused by the same ginetta going off) but overall driving standards were really good.

Found a pic

Time to bring back the trolley bus ?

Yeah it was on the BBC website. Terrible piece of fundamentally inaccurate, poorly researched claptrap from someone who I suspect was doing an internship having just got a 2.2 in media studies... except it was from their "Chief Environment Correspondent" which is a real worry... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57416829

Looks more like he's committing the route to memory, to me. As you're operating in foreign territories, It's not unusual to have to print the route inside your hat. 😉

Quotes from the article above: "Out of a sample of 297,493 people who had been vaccinated, 0.5 per cent were subsequently found to have a new infection of covid-19." "From a sample of 210,918 adults who had received both doses of vaccine, just 0.1 per cent were subsequently found to have a new infection." It doesn't say when the above samples were taken, so it could potentially have been a few months back when infections were at their lowest, but some dated figures taken from the same article... "The results of nearly 110,000 swab tests carried out across England between 20 May and 7 June suggest covid-19 infections are around 1 in 670 people infected." Which is less than 0.15%... John Hopkins Uni states a total of 92,810 cases in the last 14 days in England. Note this is TOTAL cases across a 14 day period, not a snapshot taken at any one time! But we'll roll with it anyway because they aren't giving us any proper data, only manipulated stuff to try and keep us scared. Of a population of 56 million (England only, remember), thats 0.156% (the two values agree). Churning all this through then, the New Scientist article actually states that if you have one jab your chance of getting Covid more than triples, if you have both it goes down by 35% ish - from what was an already incredibly small risk anyway. Even at the highest risk group, 70-85, only 5% of those who contract it will pass away. 5% of 0.156% is a tiny number - 7.8 people per 100,000. The normal death rate for this age group hovers around 7,000 per 100,000: https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/monthlymortalityanalysisenglandandwales/may2021/monthlymortalityanalysismay20211.xlsx I said right from the start that the measures put in place would end up with worse effects than the disease itself, I still believe that will be the case - more and more the longer this farce is kept up.

Yes my bad! Here it is before I started taking it apart 😁

2 for 1 Punday:

Looks a great evening @Robin (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO. I hope @Barnsley John was on his best behaviour and also managed to get a fish and chip supper for two for a flver.

First long run for a while, and a good one. 8 cars started out heading through Selby, Holme on Spalding Moor, where we picked up another, Market Weigton and Beverley, passing the race course and then on to the coast. Arriving at 6pm was good and bad. Free parking and toilets closed. More loos found a short walk away with a fish shop close by. Sitting in the sun with a bit of banter going on. After an hour, we set off for home, trying to take the same route, but something went wrong and we ended up on the one road we were trying to avoid, the M62. It was quicker though .

And a few from today.

Car now bought and tucked away in the garage - hopefully to start enjoying it next week!

Welcome Steve, I am the new AO for Norfolk and we are hoping to get some events organised in the county at the end of July. We are always interested in the detailed specifications of the Westfields in the area and any pictures when you get them are always a bonus! Everyone on the forums is really helpful and will help you get the most of the experience. All the best Phil

A few from yesterday’s run down to tyndrum

Almost looked tropical in Wales today. Found some new roads to play on.

Your right Dave, the Mazda SDV ones are different, one can only assume the Sierra ones are as well.

well, at long last i finally got my call up to go. it is now 24 hours since i had it, and other than a sore arm last night i am fine, none of the side effects as reported, so far anyway... my 2nd jab is in 8 weeks time, unless boris reduces the wait to 4 weeks. i can not tell you how happy i was to have it and i am still smiling today. richard.

Yep, there are three/four? types of Westfield cycle wing stay that I know of! Original cast iron Cortina stays. Westfield fabricated upright stays Westfield/Hi Spec alloy upright stays And the ones I'm not sure about, the Westfield Sierra SDV and Mazda SDV kits!

Enjoyed the run to the Chippy and the run back was even better . Thanks to Paul for organising

Welcome Steve, I'm on the Suffolk/Norfolk border.

Welcome from Somerset! Enjoy! W

Hi Steve. from another Norfolk member.@Phil Nelson - Norfolk AO is our Area Organiser. There are a few members in the county now. Whereabouts are you?