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😲 hope to see you both before you go😮 if not, have a grrrreat time out there xxxx Breakfast at Quackers was a well needed Almond Frangipan, how does the pastry crust stay so crispy and the middle be so soggy, it surely defies the laws of physics. Hedley, our Entertainments Manager, decided that we were to make a Western, aren't we all daft and very compliant Parked at Quackers, 8 Westfield's and 2 Porsches Rob and Tony had to escape South and AndyR took off North after breakfast, but it was lovely to see you all, thank you for joining us. The rest of us headed down the 13 bends, up Curbar Gap, down Surprise View before hitting the little lanes for the last section, landing us at The Eyre Arms, Calver for lunch. Curbar Edge Up to Curbar Gap Hairy legs and scruffy cars at the Eyre Arms Our Choreography Manager, Hedley, did a good job in the car park, of doing what we are not quite sure, but it was fun. Parked at The Eyre Arms, poor Big Andy had his car machined polished and ceramic coated last week, well now it is sludge coated too...for freeee😮 In the Eyre Arms You folks are all fantastic for coming out on a cold, at times damp, January day in our fun, summer cars. I hope that you have all enjoyed the route, the venues and the company, we certainly have XXXXXXXX🥰

Great day out with Westfield Sports Car Club. Keep your eye out for the Western filmed on location in the Peak District. Everybody got involved to make what will be a poor Western, but we had fun anyway. Starring Peak District posse “broke back Bennett” “Cotten eyed Glen” Dave Eastwood, (Western baddie) as himself @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretaryand the Sheriff Calamity Julie. @Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AO Most definitely not for children, although I do recall seeing Bagpuss@Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO Now on for the cleaning. HB

One Westfield running and one being fettled....

A very cold and damp morning meeting up with the WSCC Peaks "posse"!

Little video of everyone leaving Quackers..... Sorry for the delay in the middle, we had to wait for Brokeback Bennett (aka @HB46443) to polish his rusty Sherrifs badge before he drove off... judging by the little slide in the car park, it may have needed cleaning again after this too 😂

A wee breakfast run out with John in the JNS up the back road along the Spey to Grantown, before retracing our steps and then on to mums for the afternoon and home in the dark 😃 Just a few pictures from today

Nah, at least 3 secs to spare, though from further back it may have looked differently! It was a leisurely pass in 3rd, could have dropped to 2nd for more zip 😉

He did try a few for size-

@HB46443when I said get a decent hat !!! Any other person would have got a nice bobble hat ! You need therapy 🙄 enjoy your car cleaning 🤣

Great photo's there @Andy_R, thanks for posting them, we will miss you when you move to the Isle of Arran Top going down

Great to meet up with everyone this morning and sorry I couldn't stay for the run & lunch. Hopefully everyone is enjoying the blat and the cowboy hats are starting to make sense 🙂 Weather on my drive home was lovely until I got to Sheffield ... so the top went up as it started to rain 😞 @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO You should have seen the look of horror from the driver coming towards us after you overtook that car a little after Quackers ... white as a sheet springs to mind 👻

First breakfast meeting of the year and a good turnout for a dull day, although only 2 braved it in Westfields. Good to meet up with first timers @Steve Hirst and @Phil1987uk. Hope we haven't put you off.

Blasted thing wouldn’t start this morning. With a strange new noise coming from the fuel pump. So aborted the planned trip out, pulled it out of the garage, cleaned it, and pushed it back in. The fix can wait until the Spring.

Replaced all rear fuel lines with R9 and fitted a new fuel filter, 1st job with the Quick Jack - wish I'd bought them years ago and now have easy access to the propshaft grease nipples so won't have to ask nicely during the MOT. Touched up a few chips in the chassis powdercoat while I was under the car, I'm impressed how clean it is after ~30k miles and 9 years although the rear wishbones need to be stripped and recoated.

No snow this week? @Gary Taylor almost summer again😂

That will be unlikely Julie We are now playing safe and avoiding unnecessary contact, just in case. But don't worry, we will be back, unless the mission goes belly up We have now booked a return flight with a different airline, due to the current situation we had a number of flights with different airlines on hold, so we had to co-ordinate available flights with our itinerary. WE WILL BE BACK See you in march

It needed cleaning several more times on the run!

It has been widely known since the start of the pandemic that Covid mostly affects people with underlying health issues, I don't know anyone that doesn't know this. If they wanted to scare people, they would be using the 175,000 figure, which is the number of death certificates on which Covid 19 is mentioned. As it happens the 151.000 figure is about right for 'Covid being the underlying cause of death' as opposed to being 'a contributing factor' meaning, people that would not have died in the absence of Covid. It is important to understand that these 'people with underlying conditions' are not a small section of the population tucked away somewhere, it is MOST of the adult population. Anyone with any of the following is at increased risk: heart disease (7 million) Diabetes (5.4 million) Asthma (5.4 million, including a million children) Cancer survivors (millions) Other lung diseases, arthritis, transplants, fibrosis, hypertension, stroke, dementia, HIV, kidney or liver disease. Add in 14 million obese people. The very existence of the NHS fills the population with people with underlying diseases, by making sure the first thing that makes you sick doesn’t kill you. Surviving underlying disease is what differentiates us from the countries in Africa where life expectancy hasn’t made 60 yet. It is also important to not just focus on deaths, how many survivors will have their lives adversely affected by this disease, damage that may not come to light for decades? As an example, we are seeing it now, an apparent increase incidence of heart damage in athletes. Of course, the antivax community reach out and link this to the vaccines, but any research at all will find you the historic and Covid specific links between Viruses and Heart damage. So, it comes to light in athletes, they are monitored closely and push their hearts to the limit, but how long until we know the consequences of mild to moderate Covid in ordinary citizens, do they fully recover, or is there lasting damage? “Researchers in Germany examined data from 100 patients thought to have recovered based on a negative nasal swab. Two to 3 months after their COVID-19 diagnosis, 60 of the individuals had indications of myocardial inflammation on CMR…”

Hello Steve, I'm your local AO, welcome to the club. Sorry about the short notice, only just seen your post, but we've got a meeting today at the Motorist in Sherburn in Elmet on New Lennerton Lane I'll be there from 10:30. There'll be a couple of other Westfields there. The next meeting after will be at the Fox and Grapes on York Road, A64 on the first Tuesday of the month,the next one is on the 1st of February. Hope to see you there.

thanks @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO A day of cake and alcohol is aways a good day😁.

Sorry Kev misunderstood your intention. People who had underlying issues clearly were at risk, but many of these were not life threatening on their own. Being overweight can lead to a shorter life but many obese do live to old age unaffected. Asthma on its own unlikely to kill the vast majority, prior to Covid it was less than 1000 in the UK per year, throw in Covid and that has shot up as their respiratory system cannot cope. We had too many "experts spouting Armageddon which they will claim it is their job to give worst case scenarios but it undermines the current message when they were so wrong before. We are coming out of this and I think this will be the last year for restrictions here unless something changes. But for me is a bigger concern that if there is another pandemic, with a death rate much higher and more severe, how will the public react next time? Will we all want to take our chances or disbelieve the prophets of doom next time. Without going into politics, every party has members who broke rules, even professor lockdown broke them to have a *******, Cummings went to get his eyesight tested and is now trying to finish Boris off for drinking in the garden. The queen stuck to them when burying the Duke but why should we if those who set the rules ignore them. only time will tell

It's like the stat for hospital admissions that never seems to make the news. How many people are in hospital FOR covid vs how many WITH. I believe it's somewhere around 60/40. That's never going to happen when our illustrious party animal leader says "it's easier to take the booster than lose weight" I mean seriously w. T. A. F.

We don't seem allowed by the media/govt to celebrate and recognise the efforts we can make to improve our own health and lower risks for ourselves. 4 years ago I had a nasty virus that led to a persistent chest infection which wouldn't clear with antibiotics - even leading to a CT scan. The respiratory consultant advised that I was 'overworked and under-exercised'. I took up running, and 4 years later I feel younger than I did then - I've had minimal colds since, too.

@Davescay was talking about changing his for an aero.

Looking at two differing things Kev. The 17K are those who have died because they caught covid and then died of complications from it who were otherwise healthy. The 151K is the figure of all deaths who tested positive for covid within 28 days. Some of those deaths are a direct result of covid, ie someone with a heart condition gets it and dies which if they had not caught it they would not have. Yes also some would be in my opinion erroneous to count as a covid death. Mr,c, everyone is entitled to their opinion, for many young and healthy people they do not get much more than mild flu symptoms. However when this first started before the vaccine kicked in my Daughters ITU ward like all others around the country, it was like a warzone with so many needing help and Dr's like her having to prioritise who got ventilators and who was made comfortable till they died. This was not Flu with a coat on and I hope you never have to see the way people died in that initial period as the medics struggled to work out what treatment to offer to the thousands who needed it. It is clear it took the old, frail and those with underlying health issues first but it took 17K otherwise healthy people as well. The enquiry in the future will see what the real outcome was and we will also need to add in those who died as a result of hospitals cancelling operations due to full ITU wards (where patients go after operations) and staff shortages created by it.

Unsuccessful data logging exercise tonight. Didn’t notice the laptop cable had fallen out…. Noooob.

The MIL likes us to save all the cardboard boxes for her friend. She was over yesterday so i shouted through from the kitchen "Catherine, do you want a box?" Then came in to the lounge with the dukes up. Oh how we laughed.