Peak District Run Out, New Years Day, 10am, Carsington Water with Burton Car Club

[AndrewBClarke]

25 minutes ago, Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative said:

Oops

 

 

There seems to be at least one cake missing!! Only 5 pieces between 6? Are you on a post Christmas detox?  With @Andy Westwood there maybe even 2 pieces missing as he has two at a time…..

[aeg]

3 hours ago, Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative said:

Hey, not actually raining!

So why no Westfield!! Have a great day guys 👍

[Big Andy]

It was good to meet up even though there wasn't any westfield but the company was amazing and so was the cake 

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Caketastic, what a sooooper start to the New Year. Agree with Big Andy, great company, shame we couldn't make the Westfield's work out but we had a good laugh. And yes @AndrewBClarke we were waiting for slow coach Westwood coming with the ginger and sticky toffee cake, he had to go for the gooeyist!

 

We started at Carsington where it stopped raining as we arrived. The cafe was unusually very quiet and the Andy's and us were delighted to be joined by not only Hedley and Tony but then also Martin, that's what made the New Year even more sooooper.

 

Our Hedley is a bundle of fun as shown here, never boring and never dull when Hedley's around!

 

Glen kindly took a photo in the Mainsail Cafe at Carsington.

 

 

The rain stayed off so we dropped the tops (some of us did anyway) and went a scenic run via Brassington, Longcliffe and over to Hassop. I don't think we have done that route in the Westfield's and on a dry day it will be excellent, although we drove most of it down the centre of the road to avoid the puddles (except Martin in the Volvo Tank that just ploughed through them having fun)

 

 

The road was flooded at Quackers with a car stuck in the middle of it! There was a lot uf running water about and I was glad the lights were at red in Bakewell so I could quick whip my soft top up as it had started to drizzle, love the MX5 for that, it takes 2 seconds.

 

The chat and banter continued in the cafe at Hassop and the cakes were in plentiful supply with Big Andy getting the biggest piece today and Westwood the gooeyist.

 

 

The top was up for the journey home as it was still drizzling. Thank you to everyone for coming out today and making it a great social occasion, we still talked about Westfield's and it's important to keep it all going even when the weather is not favourable plus WE LOVE TO SEE YOU ALL XXXX

 

More photo's, enjoy. Just in case you are wondering Big Andy's Azura Blue ST is a real Limited run Mk4, he tells me only 300 are in the UK, very beautiful and sounds the biz too.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year to you all, hope to see you soon xxxxx 

 

 

 

[Andy Westwood]

Happy New year everyone and what a great way to start the New year than meeting up with friends. It was great to see everyone and have a chat.

Let's hope we have better weather this year to than 2024.