Peak District run out on Sunday 20th August

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

5 minutes ago, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said:

Will you be bringing your new donut munching - hair dryer pointing friend? 

 

Hopefully not! 😂

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

@AndrewBClarke I've posted the meet on the Book of Face too 👍

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

Whilst the queen of cake is on hol @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative  the king of cake @AndrewBClarke stepped in and put a great run on!

 

Thanks Andrew. I really enjoyed it.

 

 

[aeg]

Thank you @AndrewBClarke for arranging todays run around the Peaks , but I must say thanks to you all for letting the late comers catch up !!!
Our day didn’t start very well due to the wonderful world of road closures  🤬 first the A38 was closed north bound after Lichfield and the detour was taking us back down the 38 and off towards Tamworth on the A51 !! So plan B was hatched to go out via the A515 , great until we got to Draycot under clay where it was also closed sending us to Uttoxeter , a quick phone call to say go without us and we’ll catch you at the Ramblers, then Andy said he’d turn on WhatsApp location so we could track and catch them, well we eventually did But we were going the wrong way 🤪 thanks for waiting while we did a U e it was a great drive thereafter.

Pics from the co pilot

Billy no mates looking for friends

Being allowed to join in 

Getting your run up Wynats pass ruined 😡

Finally at the Ramblers

Thanks all see you soon Andy & Becky 

[ianali]

12 hours ago, aeg said:

Thank you @AndrewBClarke for arranging todays run around the Peaks , but I must say thanks to you all for letting the late comers catch up !!!
Our day didn’t start very well due to the wonderful world of road closures  🤬 first the A38 was closed north bound after Lichfield and the detour was taking us back down the 38 and off towards Tamworth on the A51 !! So plan B was hatched to go out via the A515 , great until we got to Draycot under clay where it was also closed sending us to Uttoxeter , a quick phone call to say go without us and we’ll catch you at the Ramblers, then Andy said he’d turn on WhatsApp location so we could track and catch them, well we eventually did But we were going the wrong way 🤪 thanks for waiting while we did a U e it was a great drive thereafter.

Pics from the co pilot

Billy no mates looking for friends

Being allowed to join in 

Getting your run up Wynats pass ruined 😡

Finally at the Ramblers

Thanks all see you soon Andy & Becky 

Looks like you were bringing up the rear. Shame that as nobody would have witnessed you guys ‘cutting some moves on the dance floor’

[AndrewBClarke]

Sorry about the delay in posting an end of trip report but Clare hasn’t been well causing disturbed nights etc. Sunday started for me at an ungodly hour of 5.40am and by the time I had sorted her out, it was 6.30 and not worth going back to bed to get up at 7 to get in a Westie at 7.30 and drive to the Peaks!!

[AndrewBClarke]

Thank you all for coming - especially as our women were playing in the World Cup final. Should have meant that the roads were quiet but as Andy and Becky found, this was not true. At least the weather was good. A no windscreen wiper day and no roof. It did have a little go at rain but this is a traditional English summer so I’ll take it. 

A fantastic turn out at McD Matlock of 8 Westfields. Rob brought along two with him including @Phippsys old car. Andy and Becky were struggling to get to us but on the positive note, @Chris Emmmade it for breakfast. 
 

 

Leaving @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AObehind to do granddad duties, we left Matlock and took a route designed by TomTom as ‘challenging’ via Winnates Pass (avoiding the locals) to Edale.

 

 

 

En route picked up the stragglers @aeg The Ramblers Inn car park was surprisingly empty so we lined up accordingly. it wasn’t empty inside thou!

 

We lost two Westies at lunch and the remaining six took a route back to Matlock which was ‘different’ as my TomTom kept on going to sleep so hopefully the followers didn’t notice the detours but at least we made it to the designed cake stop at The Fountain Tea Rooms in Bonsall. 
 

 

 

The obligatory cake photo for @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative who was missing. 

 

 

We all departed well fed and happy that the day worked out roughly as planned 🤪

 

215miles of no roof, no rain, with great company and friends. Not to mention the Westfield smile.

 

See you all again soon. 

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

1 hour ago, AndrewBClarke said:

Sorry about the delay in posting an end of trip report but Clare hasn’t been well causing disturbed nights etc. Sunday started for me at an ungodly hour of 5.40am and by the time I had sorted her out, it was 6.30 and not worth going back to bed to get up at 7!!  

 

Hope Clare feels better soon mate

[AndrewBClarke]

1 hour ago, Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO said:

 

Hope Clare feels better soon mate

Thanks @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO  It’s how life has been for the last 12 years or more and will not really change. Just need to manage/tolerate and enjoy the good bits. 

[Phippsy]

@AndrewBClarkeI'm still lurking in the background getting a 'DADDY YELLOW NOISY CAR' every time he sees one on m my phone! 

 

I need to sort the storage issue out long before I can't get another one 😂🫣

[AndrewBClarke]

A few more photos that didn’t make the cut 😁

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Glynn Walters]

Cheers for arranging Andy, Just been to check if someone’s scribbled on my number plate!😂

 

heres a couple more……..

[aeg]

Hi @Glynn Walters it was Becky that scribbled over your plate ,because she put the photo on the book of face , see you soon A & B