New Years Day, Carsington Water, 10am Breakfast meet

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Did I say something about 'making calendar pictures' on my last event? well we made some today didn't we @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman @Glynn Walters😂

 

We met the Burton Car Club at Carsington Water and made a lovely display of interesting cars in the car park

 

This was us

 

@Trevor Little (Trevturtle)  joined us at last with tales of the turbo'd MX5 at Donington on a cold December track day which delighted us, James in the Sonic had been there only the day after too on an equally cold day, talk of minus 2 in the morning!

 

We soon relieved the snack bar of it's sausage cobs and hot coffee

 

 

It's not like it was cold, we had some proper Cheshire flesh on display with us didn't we Dave, not like the nancies in Staffordshire who wear jeans in the winter @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO

 

 

We returned to our cars after we suitably dropped everyone's body temperature and I was approached by a man called Rod. He was a press photographer and wanted some photo's of our cars in motion, I told him my route and he said he would see us near the Miner's Standard pub, I passed him a business card and waved him off.

 

I gathered Dave, Glynn and James in the MEV Sonic for the onward journey to Hathersage. Glynn asked if we were 'roofing up' as it was spitting with rain, I replied that we will be moving so we will be fine🤣.

 

Around 10 minutes later the rain was biblical and we were on a twisty, narrow country road with no chance of pulling up. At the end of the road I pulled over to the left on a straight bit and we 'roofed up', we were soaked, inside the windscreen, seats, coats, hats, everywhere and I couldn't get my wet hands into my gloves. James had no roof and went home, Dave and Glynn had the same opinion as me, we were wet now so we may as well carry on. I am glad we did because by Bakewell the rain had stopped but it had left it's mark on the roads as you can see by Rod's photo's. They had made the Midland's News by the time we got home, thanks @HB46443 for tagging us on facebook, I hope Rod get's a good payday from them.

 

Anyway, we arrived at Bird Cafe in a damp state.

Bird Cafe, Hathersage car park

 

Yay, it was lunchtime, so the feasting began, followed by cake time. Treacle tart and cream for me

 

 

 

Have you noticed that the sun is out now we are sat inside a warm cafe😃

 

 

I will leave you with the rest of Rod's photo's for you to laugh at. That cyclist must have balls of steel to do what he did, Dave suggested that they may be rusty by now so I hope they are stainless steel ones. Don't forget to pay your parking fee for Carsington and I hope to see you next Sunday for a less eventful meet up, WOW, it's been a very memorable day today and I certainly feel alive, what a start to the year🤪

 

 

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

Great to see everyone today, thanks @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative  as always for organising it with Michael and the Burton Car Club 👍

 

Colin, James and I started at about 9am.

 

Martin (@neptune) had messaged to say he was in the tin top (in fact it was a van that's now called "Dexters van" due to the suspicious plastic sheets inside it 😂).

 

Note the blue sky!

 

 

 

Colin's Pinto engined car was sounding a little sick, a quick look over and it seemed to be a loose water pump pulley but when we headed off it became apparent that it was a tappet problem so he had to head home... being a man of action, he had it stripped and parts on order before lunch! Excellent work! 👏

 

James (in the Sonic7) and I headed for the B roads and found them almost deserted, meaning we had a nice easy run to Carsington, puddle dodging all the way 😂

 

 

 

After breakfast (who doesnt need more food at this time of year!?) a few of us headed home to fairer weather leaving the main convoy to head north into a monsoon!

 

A great way to start 2023!

 

Happy New Year!

 

[Glynn Walters]

Ha, the comments on Facebook on Derbyshire live are hilarious we get much more love than the cyclist😂 someone even claiming this is photoshopped fake news!😂😂😂

[Labrat]

@Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative Brilliant photos! You just need to add a rudder to the Westy and you could use it as a boat 😜 I hope Glen has been busy with the WD40!

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

https://www.facebook.com/MidlandsNewsandViews

 

https://www.facebook.com/derbyshirelive/posts/pfbid026M1kVmGntpf6fDf9sgRFhw6F3rSEhPRbspCdVYnv416aLWrpuLzsY3GVWrEtz5QZl

 

Do we have a press officer on the committee?😲

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

@Trevor Little (Trevturtle)  now you know why Glen was asking you for the new spring for the wiper arm, we may need extra strong variety😁

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

We are also reported in the Times online 'news in pictures' although not quite made it into the paper version.....yet.....the year is new...