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Heater, roof, doors? Nah, it's only -2.0° for goodness sake!

Me n’ Jim i was 70 three weeks ago, Jim is70 next week, old guys rock.....lol

Well that was different. Due to lack of people daft enough to bring their Westfield out today (I would have if you would!) we still decided to carry on regardless, only in our other cars. Scrapping Ashbourne and instead meeting @BillyPee and Bill senior at Sparrowpit we went to the Yonderman for tea and mince pies to start the day. Soft tops rule today. We detoured to take a route through Chatsworth Park and found some sunshine Oooh, it's so hot in here, doors, a sun visor even, what luxury as we passed Edensor church Chatsworth, but that isn't the house! Edensor Church Catching up my original intended route along the country lanes we were getting onto higher ground And we found the fog that did not lift up here, even after lunch We had lunch at the Red Lion, Stannage where Bill junior got 'chip envy' as Glen had fish and chips with mushy peas and curry sauce, while Bills steak ciabatta came with only vegetable crisps and salad - a bit of a healthy option that one. All was made better when Julie stopped mid sentence - wow - as the electric blue mini dress clad lady walked into the bar area, mental note, get the boys to face the bar next time we go here. Parked at the Red Lion Peak Edge In order to balance Bill's diet and to stretch the legs of that lovely straight six Porsche engine we set off up the mighty Slack Hill to bring us to the Fountain at Bonsall for cake. The lemon and blueberry cake was nice, as was the Victoria sandwich cake, but on being told that the banana and hazelnut cake had just come out of the oven Bill took no time in deciding that was the one for him. I still think he is turning into a bit of a health freak though, bananas and nuts are both vegan and healthy. I will have to reconsider your future membership to the Peak District if this kind of behaviour carries on 😀 With a serious lack of suffering today with our wonderfully comfortable cars, lets hope next Saturday is slightly better weather and we will see you all at GBS for totally unhealthy German sausages. Thank you to Bill and Bill for coming out with us today, albeit in the wrong cars, it was still good fun working out the quirks of our strange little cars.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow lunchtime

Have to do your bit for our elderly community 👍 Hence why I go out on runs with @CraigHew 😂🤭

November 16th, 2019 Spend: £10.00 Winter upgrade time! After cleaning the car last weekend, today I finally made a start with replacing the damaged nose cone. Part of the hesitation to do it 'in season' was that I wanted to go from 2 bolts holding the nose cone down, to 2 dzus sliding fasteners. I had @Ben (bunje) create two M8 to M4 reducers which would allow me to re-use my rivnutted M8 mounts on the chassis. But once they've been screwed in, there would be no unscrewing. But I shouldn't have feared the job, it turned out to be quite simple! Now I just need to fit a new stripe and grille November 23th, 2019 Spend: £13.99 It took some effort to get the stripe on neatly (I'm not a sign writer!), but it does look tidy, even up close November 30th, 2019 Spend: £10.00 I bought a nice badge from @marcusb again, but it has no fixings on it. I didn't want to drill screw holes in it, so I got some JB Weld SteelStik and improvised. And then I 3D printed some fixings that will hold it into the grille I bought from @Steve (sdh2903). Last month: £ 9402.26 This month: £ 33.99 ----------+ Total: £ 9436.25

Well why didn’t you think of that last year.

Thanks @Julie Hall - Peak District AO and Glen for a great day out. We both really enjoyed it. See you next weekend.

You are a hardy soul Kevin (Mr T) and fair play to you. I'm too old for that game now and car has just been SORNd so now looking forward to Spring. Just back in the house from my garage at +1C and didn't stay long......Brrrrrrrr.

We divergE.. I liked tax disks, in fact I thought like HGV’s there should have been MOT disks too. If only to act as a reminder.

You're only out this time of year cause Helen didn't let you out much over the summer!😄 Any sign of a cloud and you usually chicken out😏

In Sausage finger's defence, he was sliding round the Peaks in Oct:

Says @CosKev who SORN's his car at the end of August....😮

I'll be three too. But probably in a tin top.

The opposite side of the story is if a cyclist does not use lights it’s largely there own life they endanger, not others. Evolution... Personally as a cyclist with a high vis jacket, flashing helmet, and more lights than you could shake a stick it still appears I’m invisible . Today’s idiot.. yes just today’s.. I see them most days on a 50 mile round trip commute. It always the same problem, folk just don’t think, and judge risk based on themselves. I was in traffic following a train of cars doing 25 in a 30. The car behind me not satisfied over took but was left with the problem that really there had never been enough space for another vehicle between me and the X5 in front so she cut me up. She’d get home 3 seconds faster and only endangered my exposed life. That’s the key difference if you as a car driver bump into a cyclist you are likely to hurt them a lot. If a cyclist bumps into you are barely likely to feel it. Yes a rider should have adequate lighting/ reflectors etc, but I’d have to question a car drivers eyes if they with their lights on are unable to see a bike, or possibly pedestrian (these don’t have lights). Or anything else unexpected on the road. Blooming car drivers.... 💋🚴🏼‍♂️💋

Big, big, big thank you again @Julie Hall - Peak District AO and @Westfield Parts Dept for sorting out today's Black Friday Christmas pressies 👍

Mrs H (well me on her behalf) has been on the phone this morning ordering my Christmas presents - covers for both cars and an umbrella, discount was ~£100.