Sat 21st: Peak district Santa run.

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

40 minutes ago, Julie Hall - Peak District AO said:

 

 You and Trevor are mad, which does help with tomorrows activities funnily enough.

“`But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: `we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’
`How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice.
`You must be,’ said the Cat, `or you wouldn’t have come here.’
Alice didn’t think that proved it at all; however, she went on `And how do you know that you’re mad?’
`To begin with,’ said the Cat, `a dog’s not mad. You grant that?’
`I suppose so,’ said Alice.
`Well, then,’ the Cat went on, `you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.'”

[Oily Steve]

I did the same thing 2 weeks before Oulton at Silverstone!

I might become sensible one day and get a trailer 😀

[Andy_R]

2 hours ago, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said:

Great, you'll be in the Westie, then 😋

 

I wish ... Mav's stuck in a storage unit somewhere in the depths of Shakey Wakey 🙁

 

When the weather improves and I make space in the garage it will be back!

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

Bagpuss Blat-cast

 

Trevor’s not been so clever with the weather. Currently raining in Stoke-on-Trent 😱

 

However it’s not going to dampen our enthusiasm or stop us having a great day👍
 

See you all later.......just off to put my Xmas frock on 😜

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Chucking down here in Sandbach at the mo, my beards going to get wet!

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Er, it's raining here now, don't worry we won't shrink if we get wet, see you all shortly

[Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer]

It's dry in derby.😁

 

I'll look for  Addams family rain cloud arriving from stoke

[Scotty72]

Just stopped raining in Nottingham but were still coming. (That is if I can get the teenager out of bed) and 😂

[Oily Steve]

Just been out to fill up. As Trevor said its currently stopped raining here but lots of water on the roads.

Good chance to try the new Pilot Sport 3 tyres. 😀

See you all soon!

[AndrewBClarke]

Let the mayhem start......
 

 

 

 

 

Photos taken by Marie, sent to Michael in Ottawa and then forwarded to me in Blighty. That’s the wonders of the www!  
 

Wish we were there. Looks like you are barking mad but having a good time. 
 

Happy Christmas everyone. 

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

@Michael Clarke Thank you to Marie for coming to see us off and taking the lovely photo's, how very thoughtful xxx

 

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

We met at Ashbourne, ate lots of jammy doughnuts freshly fried by Trevor this morning and thanked our lucky stars that the rain had done one, we had a dry day afterall.

 

 

 

 

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

On the move, we travelled through the villages, waving at people and just generally making everyone laugh, there were some surprised faces. It always makes me laugh that it's the older people that wave the most, the kids are more nervous about it.

In Ashbourne

 

Through Matlock Bath and Matlock

 

To Bakewell

 

 

Castleton

 

With a good bit of quiet countryside in between. This is the first proper test drive for my front shock absorbers and we are highly delighted with them, the comfort of a production car whilst riding in a sports car.

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

That brought us to the Travellers Rest at Bradwell. We go to this pub often due to it's beautiful setting and we always have excellent food and service, the opposite of what tripadvisor suggests, today was no exception. 

 

Dave very nearly wore shorts today

 

Was he looking for them in the 'pass the parcel'

 

Everyone unwrapped a throttle cable until the final prize was revealed, oh my, I now have my very own Tango Man. He will be loved and photographed and will live in my car xxxxxxx thank you very much @OrangeCrush

 

 

 

 

Back outside Dave aquired a new sledge while the Honda boy's did the Honda talk.

 

 

 

Back on the move we had a train to catch

 

 

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

The Santa's Special train was in

 

 

Richard and Tash bought some toys that their own children had out grown. The rest of us were busy giving choccies out to the kids and eating mince pies.

 

Steve and Kate bought their reindeer out for the day

 

And we get tested on our emissions for a MOT, steam engines clearly don't

 

 

We posed for photo's like celebrities, the kids loved it nearly as much as we did

 

It was time for a brew and a sit down, still eating btw

 

Give us a smile Tash

 

Steve and Trevor

 

Steve and Kate with the cute reindeer

 

We were joined by a reindeer, now there is an idea for next year's costume, I dare you! 

 

Thank you to everyone for an absolute manic day, it really does compare to nothing else in life, same time, same place next year xxx

 

Oh and thank you for my present, are you trying to say that my car may be a fire hazard?