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5 of us out today over the Mendips via Cheddar Gorge. Great day in fact.

Thought I'd take a new passenger out for a ride. She didn't look too keen to start with, but soon chilled out and started drooling on my arm.

Managed to get a short ride in today for an Ice cream at the local farm shop

A short ride to car barn beamish summer meet with apc1x. Jeffc former members tommy mac. Then what looked like his n hers mclaren and gt3

Finally getting some use now! Dropped my mates daughter at her prom on Friday: Followed by a meet yesterday that I forgot to take any pics, however I attended another local one today at the Renegade Brewery (Formally 'West Berks Brewery')

The final final version! 😊

We made it just in time to wave at Glynn and Steve as they left All gone! Luckily we caught Andrew and had a lovely coffee and chat in Quackers before heading off to Eyam where the locals told us 'all about these sporty cars that had been parked in their sports field' looks like we missed the Lotus again! Thanks for organising Andrew and we will see you sooooooon x

Set off at 7.30am under blue skys. No push bikes so lovely drive to Quackers although the clouds did roll in and there was a little dampness to overcome. @Glynn Walterscaught me up in Bakewell (I must have been napping) and we drove into the Quackers car park. Somewhat surprised by the sight that met us as we arrived. Must have been 150 lotus cars of all colours and models. Brilliant. Took a few photos before Gavin and Steve turned up making 4. @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AOsent a note as someone in his group of 3 had an issue with an accelerator cable and they couldn’t make it. I sent some photos of the cars and cake to @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative so she made haste and just caught us before we left so that meant another coffee😁 We all went out separate ways, so I carried on to Tatenhill Airfield for an Air Ambulance fundraiser which was blinking cold but worthwhile cause. Nearly a 3 hour trip home arriving at 5pm. Lots of miles and smiles.

I’ve been into the circuit today with @W Shep as a passenger, been a good day apart from we’ve been queuing an hour already to get out 😅

The Grannies of Verona, all delighted to catch a glimpse of the Silver fox @Greenstreak-Andy DThe ‘Gentlemen’ passed around Verona this morning and are now sat on a train in Innsbruck heading for Düsseldorf

Went through LeMans centre on way back to digs past Cathedral of Saint Julian of Le Mans 🙂

Dorset area are having our regular display area representing the WSCC at this show. It is always a great weekend with a large number of vehicles of all types on display, from steam engines up to modern classics. Organised by the Crashbox and Classic Car Club, the Historic Vehicle Gathering is the largest car show in the South West and one of the largest in the country. See: https://historic-vehicle-gathering.info/

Monthly meet for a natter and a pint, usual venue, The Crown Inn Bridport DT6 4AX from 19.30.

Sorry you didn’t make it. Hopefully Lee is fixed.

Agree on some of those road surfaces! I was tiptoeing down one of the lanes heading back home - smooth tarmac is always preferred, especially after a full english breakfast 🤪

I was with Paul and co. Nice day out, great cars, good mates but tbh bl**** awful road surfaces. I wish they'd spend some money on them! Weather pretty much stayed dry for us. Next one I hope to organise will be up into the Cotswolds, Tetbury, Cirencester, Stow on the Wold, Bourton on the Water and hopefully Fish Hill. May give Clarkson's farm a drive-by buzz too 😂 I guarantee you better and faster roads next time lads!

Great drive and meet up this morning. Nice run down to Cheddar Gorge and then on to Sweets Tea Rooms for a decent breakfast. Nice to see a real mix of kits on show The westies were joined on the run down by a GBS Zero and a V-Storm, and at Sweets we found a nice Marlin and a Spartan amongst others. I loved the interesting mirrors on the Spartan:

Adge - apologies I'm away, will see you on Sunday at Powderham.

Sorry to hear that! I don't think I'll make the Alton one either.

@AndrewBClarke we've got a few of the rabble coming. I'm meeting Lee at the A50/A38 services at 845, I think Steve and Glynn are meeting us at Quackers 👍

If it wasn't for the WhatsApp group this wouldn't have taken place. In the end we had 4 Westfields, 1 Cobra and a VW Up! A bit of confusion with the pub that turned out to be a cafe, and was closing at 5 instead of 11, but the pub up the road had some great food. Thanks to all who came.

There will always be another time @jaykay42 in fact if the weather is good I think we should do it again in August, it's such a good little blat this one

A few more recent images, some of the Moon, Venus and a recent large Active Region on the Sun. This shows a feature called Schröter’s Valley and the bright crater is Aristarchus. This one below shows two features called the Lunar X and V, highlighted in the next image. This one is of Venus showing around half phase. Finally a very large and detailed Active Region on the Sun. It was big enough to show a a black dot when viewing the Sun with eclipse glasses. Through a decent solar scope it was amazing, about ten earth diameters across I think.

Richard Burgess has kindly offered to step up to be a Joint Area Organiser with me for the Kent area. Rich does alot already with route planning and helping organising and things are growing fast in the South East! We have a few ideas to do a bit more than just the monthly breakfast meets in the future. So watch this space! If you have an suggestions, events, trips away, days out etc let us know…. Nice one Rich 👌

Have a great day @Kit Car Electronics 🍺🎂

Just a few of the finished article for the record.