Saturday 1st June, Peak District, Ashbourne 10am

[Barnsley John]

41 minutes ago, stephenh said:

M & S Simply Food is next to Halfords, so no problem.

looks like borrowing then

[AndyMM]

up for this if weathers ok. Andy & Anne.

[Andy Westwood]

Hi Julie we will be joining you tomorrow. 

[Chris Emm]

Hope to be with you

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

@Barnsley John don't forget your passport 

 

There is a brew at M&S as Stephen said but the plan also is to drive for only 10 minutes to get coffee/breakfast before we go on our run around

 

Thank you for replying @stephenh  we were out last night and away from the forum

 

 

 

[Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer]

I will be getting next year's tick in the box today

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[Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer]

Hulme  end cafe.  Bacon  and a sausage sandwichs... then cake and coffee.

 

Oh this is after the event😂

[AndrewBClarke]

Fantastic day today. Thanks all especially @Julie Hall - AO Representative, Peak District AOfor organising us. Thought I’d put up some photos. The Tissington ones are to show everyone what we missed!  

[Andy Westwood]

Thanks for another great day 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Looks like a fantastic day!

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Firstly, a special thank you to @syman84 for inviting us to Michelle's 40th birthday last night, it was a great party and the live band were fantastic. The last time we met Michelle's dad we were at The Strines, it was freezing and he was in a turquoise Robin Hood, about 4 years ago, so it was nice to catch up with him too. 

 

I only wanted to go 5 miles for some breakfast, how difficult can it be? read on. We met at Ashbourne for a quick gather together before heading North to Tissington (or not as the case may be). We had a spare moment so we did the panorama dance

 

red cars ruled today, Chris and Mo arrived

 

Martyn and Sue arrived

 

as well as Andrew, Trevor and Kirsty, Andy and Ann, Matt, Richard, Stephen, Andy and Sue, John and Jacky

 

we nicely set off on our short and unremarkable trip through Ashbourne

 

I indicated right to turn into Tissington, but no, no, no, the road was closed due to the well dressing being on. Parking was in an adjacent field - in a Westfield? I don't think so, plus imagine the crowds, no, no. We continued, which was actually the route I had planned for later, so Glen and I racked our brains for somewhere suitable to take 10 cars, we carried on the route and STOP STOP STOP we met this fine fellow

 

An irate farm contractor, who met 2 of his work mates coming in the opposite direction in equally large vehicles. The road sign states 'unsuitable for long or wide vehicles' he had no brake/reverse lights, no tread on his tyres and the number plate is half hidden, and then he had the audacity to get out of his vehicle and tell us to back up, but only after he had aggressively reversed and braked hard towards me. I had nowhere to go obviously and had to sit there and gulp. Long one short, Glen got out and told him what an unpleasant man he is, I had kittens and we all turned around and went on a different road. Phew.

 

We decided to divert to Wetton but unknown to me (I had just given birth to kittens! cut me some slack) Richard had started to overheat and Trevor stayed with him. Richard appeared later and Trevor and Kirsty ended up at Hulme End ?????

Wetton

 

 

After being suitably refreshed and back on track we set off around the lanes of Dove Dale

 

 

To arrive at Willersley Castle, and what a beautiful setting to take our beautiful cars. 

 

The view over the river Derwent from the Castle

 

After lunch we risked a drive through Matlock Bath and it paid off because the traffic was flowing well and the road was lined with motorbikes and tourists, pose time!

 

With the warm weather we decided an ice cream farm was required and went to Matlock Meadows, engage panorama mode again

 

the bonnets came off and the ice cream was consumed, the conversion flowed making a lovely end to a rather challenging start 

 

Richard 2 cakes, and he even bothered to pay for them this time

 

 

 

Mazda, Zetec, V8 and Honda take your pic

 

Thank you to everyone for coming along today, hopefully you have enjoyed it as much as us, you are fun lot and make us laugh so much xxxx

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

Looks like a missed a great day out. I had an equally great day, helping @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary work on finishing his winter mods. 

[AndrewBClarke]

1 hour ago, IanK (Bagpuss) said:

Looks like a missed a great day out. I had an equally great day, helping @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary work on finishing his winter mods. 

The word ‘finishing’ was mentioned. Hope so as he is missed on these trips. He is normally a regular feature. Brilliant that he has mates who help

[stephenh]

2 hours ago, IanK (Bagpuss) said:

Looks like a missed a great day out. I had an equally great day, helping @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary work on finishing his winter mods. 

Winter? It's June!!😄

 

It was a great day out, thanks Julie. And I had a good drive back, along a road I know quite well.

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

44 minutes ago, AndrewBClarke said:

The word ‘finishing’ was mentioned. Hope so as he is missed on these trips. He is normally a regular feature. Brilliant that he has mates who help

It's no chore to work on Dave's great car with Dave. Unlike @Stu Faulkner the serial builder, I get my build fix by either re-building mine (I can change a radiator in F1 Pit Team times now!) or by helping Dave with his great project. It's an honour and privilege to help Dave and becoming more and more familiar with all the great tools he's got well stored in his garage, it's become a lot more obvious how he earned the name 'Gadgetman' 😎

 

There's still a lot to do, however a lot has been done too. We need to get @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary car out into the peaks soon for shakedown runs, before our road trip to Austria at the end of this month.