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To WSCC Members, Thank you for supporting us in 2021 and being such a great community. We would like to personally thank you all and wish you a Happy Christmas & New Years. May 2022 be a great year for you and yours. We are closed from today until Tuesday 4th January. Take care and stay well. Warm regards Westfield Sportscars

Turn my back for day and there is war and peace to read on here, but didn’t want to ignore this question. Adam, you are right of course, just because it isn’t 80% doesn’t mean a healthy lifestyle isn’t significant in terms of limiting individual risk, and if you add in that many of the other comorbidities can be exacerbated or triggered by being overweight, yes, very significant, in assessing individual risk of death. Your point is that your healthy lifestyle, the consequent low risk of dying from Covid, put alongside the figures for vaccine adverse events, support your decision that the benefits to you seem marginal. As far as I can see though, that you have made that case purely in ‘live or die’ terms, if you factored in the extent to which a vaccine might lower the severity and prevent you getting long Covid, that might move the risk/benefit slider a little. Having seen the research and reason on here, which is excellent on both sides, it seems that we don’t really have all of the data to model this. We are missing a clear analysis of what “deaths reported as possibly linked to a vaccine” actually means, overall and in age groups, and we are missing a clear analysis of long Covid, 'how many does this affect, and how badly, by age? ' The data from Scotland shared by Steve, shows 30% of the cases coming from the unvaccinated, about 5% of the adult population, so clearly many people are getting this decision wrong! which of course doesn’t mean you have. Apart from the results of an individual life or death analysis, who wouldn’t get vaccinated if it did the following: a) Free up hospital beds so we can treat more of the non-Covid sick. b) Make lockdowns and restrictions less likely, more of our lives to live. c) Lower the hit the economy takes, we all suffer a little less. d) Lowered the case numbers and severity, and by doing so reduced the opportunities for future variants.

Hello everyone joined the club today, recently purchased a really nice car from a member advertised locally here in South Somerset. Hope to frequent the Dorset meets in the near future if I can brave the winter temps. Taxing it January, itching to go for run.

Hi everyone, thank you all for such a warm welcome, I am based in Chard on the Somerset/Dorset/Devon border so Sean I will keep my eye out for anything that is happening in your region as cross country it’s not very far. As regards pictures I have only got the ones from the previous owners advert and I don’t think I can really use them, I’ll try to do some over the next few days and post them up.

It was not the clutch pedal linkage that got me, work of engineering art that it is, but the big box of not quite correct linkages

Thanks @Quinten Uijldert - Webmaster I must have used an email alias for my dad's account when the logon rules changed. I tried with that and was able to logon. All the best, Bill

@jim_l and @jeff oakley (and others), thank you for your considered and mature responses. Great to have open discussions in this way. I am always intrigued by the breadth of thought processes humans possess, for example I struggle to understand those who do not question things which come from those in positions of power. Anyway... The red and green bar graph on the previous page does list the source of the data (genuine UK government data) - however it is presented in a way that is designed to try and show that the jabs don't work. I can't remember the site it was on, but I got to it via Vernon Coleman's website (known as a Covid skeptic). The bar graph with additional line on which jim posted afterwards is more reflective I think - providing the scales and axis labels are what I think they are. Bigger picture stuff... considering the chat earlier about general risks in life: "Using the most up-to-date data we have available, the number of deaths from the week ending 13 March 2020 to the week ending 10 December 2021 was 1,049,277 in England and Wales; of these, 983,453 were recorded in England and 64,448 were recorded in Wales." - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/10december2021 England Covid deaths are now at 128k total, thus making up 13% of all deaths since the pandemic began. I appreciate if Covid was left to "run riot" the figure may have been higher, but what are people's thoughts on why we (as a nation) aren't putting as much effort into preventing the other causes of death? These are the top 5 this year (totalling 169,000) other than Covid (69,000), and they have been for the past 5 years with flu a close 6th (source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2fbirthsdeathsandmarriages%2fdeaths%2fdatasets%2fmonthlymortalityanalysisenglandandwales%2fnovember2021/monthlymortalityanalysisnov2.xlsx). - Dementia and Alzheimer's disease - Ischaemic heart diseases - Cerebrovascular diseases - Malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus and lung - Chronic lower respiratory diseases We can't do much about the first one, but the other 4 (totalling 118,000 this year so far - getting on for double that of Covid) are health and lifestyle related. Given that there also appears to be significant reduction in medical complications due to contracting Covid from living a generally healthy lifestyle, my proposition is that it would be a good use of resources to promote general health in order to assist with all of the main causes of death we are currently facing. We have had some quite extreme interventions in relation to Covid, so maybe it could now be considered appropriate to (tongue slightly in cheek) make daily exercise compulsory, for McDonald's to shut 5 days a week, added sugar in food to be capped to a certain percentage, restaurant meals to be capped at a certain calorie level, cigarettes banned, etc. I understand the above doesn't really sound achievable, but if you'd said 2 years ago that we'd all be made to stay inside for a couple of months we'd have thought that very strange too. With enough venom from our leaders, people will conform. So, why the huge focus on Covid and medical interventions specific that disease, when I would say there is an argument that general increase in heath would assist with Covid and our other major causes of death / NHS drain. Thoughts on a postcard...

As I said I feared that the government was swayed by the dire warming of the NHS being overwhelmed and the Sage members demanding action. In Wales and Scotland they really went over the top as a result and England got off lighter. It will be interesting if they reverse any restrictions and let people have a Christmas and New Year as normal. I suspect it is too late to get parties going in the hospitality sector. Of course what this does is undermine the people who were demanding restrictions based on the science. They got it right with the first one and the Delta but who will listen next time, have they cried wolf once to often?

Yes, Sealskinz. They have 3 heat settings and I recommend that you use them on No 1, the lowest setting, that way you don't get sweaty hands and it just keeps the chill off. They are not really for adding heat as such, just to stop hands getting cold, I hope that makes sense, not like a HotHands type thing.

Not all of us, mind you I have always been odd 🤣

I would hope nothing I said suggested that, On this side of the fence I have been called some stuff too, nothing too bad on here apart from a particular woolly animal. Once or twice a week I go out in company that includes unvaccinated people, we made our cases long ago and left it there, they don’t have your defence, they smoke and drink like troopers, but they do test often. I haven’t lost any friends over it.

Mini road trip today, set out at 7.30am pitch black and 2 degrees , two and a half hours later and I arrived on the Wirral - I go on the A roads as I don't like motorways personally with a low, small car. Duties were performed , then the trip back same temp sadly and the roads were even busier, return journey taking 3 hrs with a 10 minute comfort break . pics are not so good, still getting used to this phone, but the car in Barnston, Wirral. I was tempted to stop en-route but to be honest my hands were so cold I could not work the phone 😄 Still thawing out to be honest and I have been back an hour , lol...

Sounds like a job for The Repair Shop https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/take-part/the-repair-shop

Thank you, I now think I have done it was the phone that was wrong not the ipad, what I had done was tell the phone to accect messages via it's own phone number, rather than share with icloud as well, i was on a landline call before and the ipad lit up telling me my sister had sent a message, so it works now. Sorry for the questions, but I do get there with it eventually.

This man is local to me. Peter works out of his house in Warwick, but gets around all over the country doing jobs. He just fixed a circa 1900 mantle clock for me. Best of all, he’s a petrolhead and a thoroughly nice gentleman. Worth a call after the New Year 👍 http://www.antiqueclocksandbarometers.net

Set up text message forwarding. On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Make sure that you're signed in to iMessage with the same Apple ID on all your devices. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding. Choose which devices can send and receive text messages from your iPhone. If you're not using two-factor authentication for your Apple ID, a verification code appears on each of your other devices: enter that code on your iPhone. As long as your iPhone is turned on and connected to Wi-Fi or a mobile network, new SMS/MMS texts can be sent and received on the devices that you added. iCloud now keeps your entire messages history updated and available on all your devices – even when you set up a new device.

@jim_l whilst I actually agree with the majority of your posts and their sentiments I do have to add a couple of corrections. 1. The data I posted earlier indeed could be used to support both views which was entirely the point. However the 40% of cases also includes people who are inelligible and children under 12 who are currently not being offered the vaccine. Which I believe are currently accounting for somewhere around 15% of cases. Also Not quite right when you see the latest data. So 18% of the eligible >12 population are not double jabbed which is the (current) standard to determine if someone is fully vaccinated. This is UK wide though admittedly. So going back to the earlier chart Cases. If you remove U12 children from the chart then 25% of cases being caused by 18% of the population. Hospitalisations. 30% caused by 18% which also doesn't cater people who enter hospital for other reasons and contract covid or test positive on admittance. Deaths 15% caused by 18% of the population An incredibly simplistic and not fully accurate way to work out the sums but When you look at it this way its not quite as obvious that the unvaccinated are the key problem that the media are portraying them to be.

Ok, new morning and a clear head. I needed to give this iPad permission to link to the cloud regarding the contacts folder,got all contacts visible now.

I have some brand new cycle wing brackets for cortina uprights

Yep, not the time for sorting techie stuff like that out. Thoughts with you at such a difficult time. (Sadly, been there, got the T-shirt. Dementia is a loathsome, terrible thing.)

After 10 years with the 1998 Yellow bathtub I’ve gone and bought another yellow bathtub of 2007 vintage and just 3900 miles. Has all the mechanical upgrades I was planning to do on the 1998 Westfield, which would save me a years work and a whole wad of cash. Anyone familiar with this car?as I want know what spec the Type 9 is, previous owner not mechanically minded.

Wow,glad you aren't in charge goodness me!🤣😳

It was 600 to 6000 deaths a DAY not a week. Agree 100% though. Regardless of anything else this **** has to stop. Even just last week the health minister said there were 200k cases a day and was doubling every 2 days based on the sage models. By now we should be seeing 12m cases a day. I see the modelling was later last week deemed invalid due to "behavioural changes". No they just made wildly innacurate false estimations and pumped them out into the media with no thought of the consequences. Appreciate its all guess work but it seems some of these sage people are enjoying the limelight just a little too much. Or they are drinking way to much wine at their work meetings.

Fantastic result for the charity and from 41 people who attended

I have these items for a wide, guess there are differences, but I don't know, available at the mo.

No fog in Snowdon. Fantastic 100mile run out today and only got caught out in the fog bank when I dropped down into Conwy for my last 5 miles and no it wasn’t me who hit Santa.

Well it’s taken me while to work out how I work the internet on this thing hopefully this will post

Yeah I get it now, I still have an issue which I will look into tomorrow, the ipad is connected to the cloud as I can see the photos of the car I took today, but is still won't access my contacts from it despite it being access from the phone, which would be useful for messaging. I can see all my contacts on the PC here , so it should work on the ipad. It will be a simple permission setting, but to be honest after todays drive and emotional roller coaster ( uncle with dementia not expected to see Christmas and having seen him today I would concur) my mind isn't really in a techy place.