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Great to see you chaps and chappess! Crazy people that you are Hope you have a fun and safe trip, that the glove batteries last for hours and the cake is good 😀👍 Some pics from today.

Unhinged! Here are Team Unhinged at McDonalds, Matlock It looks like Rob was Bah Humbug but he did join in with the festive fun. Unusually Rob travelled alone, can't think why non of the Rabble joined him! After breakfast and a warm up it was time to go on our run out, I kept it to the big roads but risked going on the high roads to get some views, we mostly had traction on the very wet roads! As Ian said we stopped to let the deer cross the roads in Chatsworth, Andrew and Dave got a bit worried as they had antler's garnishing their cars! On the road It rained for just about all the journey and it was 2 degrees. We arrived at a very quiet Quacker's Cafe, took a few photo's and shot into the cafe for hot drinks and cake. Ian and Dave are having 'Parking in Formation' lessons for Christmas Andrew got the largest slice of cake but you knew that didn't you, he always does. We did pass 2 cyclists (who are also unhinged) but I had to stop talking about men in lycra as it was putting Dave and Ian off their pigs in blankets pannini After deciding that FatBloke Stu should be called Normal Sized Bloke Stu, we couldn't put it off any longer and had to extract ourselves from the warmth of the cafe and get into our very wet cars. I was quite proud of the puddle that I had going on in my car cover. I can't finish without putting this photo on again (just in case you didn't see the previous 4 postings of it). I was stood there quickly scrabbling around for my camera but missed the opportunity, so Stuart, you are star photographer of the day for getting this one, hilarious......oh, Rob, I hope you got your boot lock defrosted and lubricated and it is back working again, he he he he It might have been freezing and it might have been wet today but blimey we have had a good laugh, thanks for coming everyone and Merry Christmas. It's the shortest day next Wednesday so it will soon be better for Westfielding!

Nice to see the Deer at Chatsworth too-

It was nice to be given a warm welcome from @HB46443 and a couple of his bigger friends at Quackers-

Just noticed I caught @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO kissing his car 😉

Showing -4 degrees here, but fortunately it apparently only feels -8! Bigger numbers are better, right? 😂🥶

I thought I used to be sane but now you lot have got me up early and dressed like Santa to get into an open topped car with fairy lights on it in -6c in the dark. On my way you nutters!!! And it’s only 7.15am. 😁😁

Local roads were Icy when I set off. Always good to pass the Peaky Polo mint Julie managed to find us some snow!

Just popped a video of the Unhinged Gang leaving McDs onto YT. Hopefully this link works.

I think Dave should audition for a Wizzard tribute act 😆

Only -4 degrees in Derbyshire this morning! Semi slick tyres, no windscreen, no roof, no heater, no ABS, no traction control and definitely no sense 😂 All the little kids I passed on the way giving "Mad Santa" a wave seemed to enjoy it though 🎅

This was my 30min effort this morning before having to cancel!

Looks like a fantastic ride out! Well done for braving the conditions, great to meet you all. Very lucky catch with the picture of Rob, I only noticed it sometime after posting it up originally. The irony of my nick name is that I was given it aged about 18 when I was 6 stone lighter and in a rowing crew; I just happened to be the heaviest of us, they were all twelve stone dripping wet 🤪

Libby was standing with the same snowmen a bit earlier this morning before she got bored and demanded to go shopping. Sorry we missed you all. Luke.

My wife would not be at all surprised at seeing this photo 😂😂

I don’t know what it was today, my hair was just so fly-away and unmanageable! I’ll need a Santa Scrunchy for next year I think! (normally my hair is more flown away than fly away, I’m not used to managing it!)

Photo courtesy of @fatblokestu I'm not even going to try and explain, nobody would believe me anyway! 😂

ooooooo, you don't want inviting on our cake infested runs out next year? 😁

Is that Nora Batty dressed as an Elf😂

Talk about Christmas crackers. Utmost respect guys......

My mind is clearly to filthy or disturbed as there is so much that could be going on or that has already happened? So I'm passing on any comments for the sake of keeping my membership 🤣

So pleased someone caught him in the act! I could hardly believe my eyes, it would have been one of those photos or it didn't happen times! (Mind you, probably a good job we don't have recordings of what he was whispering to it!

Merry Christmas

Bagpuss is ready 👍🏼

Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year Drive safe 🤔☺️

Please God, please let me go with the rest of them next year

That photo is just brilliant! I've had to give it its own post as a "caption this" in the Stuff and Nonsense section so it will be preserved for all eternity 😂

Someone please help. I have got my tongue stuck.

Sniff my Diff!

Elf in Total fuel sniffing cult scandal!

It definitely tastes like cat pi55!

Get well soon Glynn!

Looks good. Ali and me have spent the last week suffering from this damn bug. Not been that bad but so bored. Hope you get over it quick and are raring to go come Christmas.

I went for some LED lights too, sadly they are about as bright as Joey Essex 🤦‍♂️😂

Heading off after shovelling snow for 1/2 an hour at 7am , and the joys of loading a westy with snowy tyres icy ramps 🤪 just stopped for coffee and about 2 hours still to go to Donington thanks to a blizzard between Perth and Edinburgh then the bypass being partially blocked with a broken down lorry. oh the joys to do 500 miles each way for a day at donny 😃

I decided to swop out my 1980s rs/capri wheels for minilite style over the winter. Looked at different options and ended up going for Compromotive ML r13 6J et18 wheels. Really pleased with what they sent me and found Compromotive as a business superb to deal with.

A superb day, weather be damned! Thank you one and all! 😀

@Glynn Walters.....we missed you today.......hoping you are still feeling ok..........if you are able to join us we should be back out between Christmas and New Year, probably the Wednesday 28th. I will post nearer the time when we have an idea what the weather is doing.

You still in there dave

Scratch & sniff snowflakes!

I don't care what you say you definitely sat on the bodywork

Great to meet you @fatblokestu and your daughter today! Thanks for the pics too.

Hi Gary I've agreed to buy the nosecone, just waiting on a reply re collection from Tony 👍

Fortunately we have hose pipes too! (and ACF50, to be fair!)

Ooops lost it under braking at the chicane so end of play 🥲 Just before lunch too. Just cosmetics and Part of the game to be fair , still she was going really well with the remap . A great bunch of folk too, I’ll be back

Not quite what I’d planned, but managed to throw a quick bit of tinsel on the car! Unfortunately it looks like what I thought was @just@ a flat battery pack on the Christmas lights is actually a broken wire or worse, too. So had to leave them off.

I’m sure someone will lend you some tinsel or even a snowflake from @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO 😀😀

Great to have a few names on the list! Hopefully a few more will join the fold in time for out first get together in 2023. Using Delia Smith's words, "Let's be having you!"