Drive It Day..27th April 2014

[John W]

Drive it day ..anything planned Tim?

[Davemul]

I think I'll be going to Brooklands for http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/index.p ... e-it-day2/

[Bigfootmgf]

Tim's planning something or not as the case may be!

[ianhunter]

Knowing Tim it's probably 'a cunning plan'

[Bigfootmgf]

So we have a start place and yes its close to the Bunny Blast start so Ian I hope you can find it this time
Its a bit of a Lazy plan so make sure you bring your satnav
So the plan... we are meeting for Breakfast at 10am
The Priory Farm Nursery Café
Sandy Lane
South Nutfield
Redhill
Surrey
RH1 4EJ
http://www.prioryfarmnursery.co.uk/cafe/

Then we are going onto the
Wings Museum,
Unit 1,
Bucklands Farm,
Brantridge Lane,
Near Balcombe,
West Sussex
RH17 6JT
http://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/

So Who wants to come.......
Paul
Ian & Liz
John w
Dave
Marty
Karl w
faz & Oli
Muddy Andy
Ron & Joan
Dave & Linda
John R
Paul & Mandy Smith
David & Amanda

[ianhunter]

Providing I can find the Cafe we will be there
Ian/Liz

[talkingcars]

Would love too if we weren't on the Wales for a week, hopefully top down and not tin top.

[John W]

Yes! I'm up for this..quite good at getting lost

[Davemul]

Now this is on Looks like I wont be going to Brooklands after all

[Marty c]

Looks good should be there

[Oliver_K]

Faz and Oli will be there

[BooBoo]

Now this is on Looks like I wont be going to Brooklands after all

Brooklands was my first choice also until I saw this

Shame we cant incorporate the Brooklands event as well but there just aren't enough hours in the day

[muddybear]

Its gonna be tough having to do another breakfast meet event , but il sure i'll manage it some how

see you all there

[RonandJoan]

Ron and Joan will also be attending. Sounds good!

R&J

[davec441]

Sounds good - dave & linda should be there

[paulg]

Can't make this one - family party on same day!

[churchsquare]

Hi,sorry we cannot make it either also family party ,Davek & Andrea

[TimM]

Probably worth mentioning that the Wings Museum does not take card payments. Cost is £8 per adult cash only.

[Oliver_K]

Hi.

Faz woken up not feeling well, so we will have to bail out of this one.

See you all soon Faz and Oli

[fatbaldingoldgit]

We were only going to go on this DID if the weather as good and as it looked like being completely pants at bedtime yesterday we decided at that time not to attend. However, after Amanda had dragged the dogs around their normal walk this morning she arrived back in good spirits and the weather was pretty good...sunny and although threatening it didn't seem to us to be coming to more than a shower or two. So much for the BBC weather forecast! So..a quick "shall we?" and a "but I have to wash my hair" - Amanda...."well I should scrape my face first" - me.... "no time..oh bugger it let's just go.." - both of us...we decided to leap in Ellie and meet everyone..albeit a little later than planned. We even chanced it and lowered the hood.

Not having met any of you guys before it was a bit of a punt on our part as to what it would be like..but a full English out on a Sunday was a definite attraction...no cooking..no washing up and the possibility of meeting a few local-ish like minded (T)F nuts was an equal pull...Wasn't sure about the Wings Museum thing..which actually turned out to be quite interesting but only for about 30mins or so..There are only so many bent pieces of metal you can muse upon before embarrassed boredom sets in.

I bought Ellie (2009 LE500) last August when I decided to sell my bikes and up/down grade to something a tad more civilised..A quick test drive in my step son's prospective TF purchase and I was sold..Amanda was a definite convert..well she would be, wouldn't she?..a convertible with A/C..blimey! how decadent can you get? Harks back to the time when we had a 289 and toured all over doing tulips and race circuits etc...but without the seemingly many wet episodes sheltering under motorway bridges trying to assemble the tent like erection excuse for a hood. Happy days.

Anyway, it was great to meet those of you who we did..The drive down and back was pleasantly green and wiggly with overtones of bright sun and grey sky. The breakfast was tasty and good value and those we were fortunate enough to chat to were welcoming, pleasant and verging on the normal. So John, David, Ron, Tim, Paul?..etc in no particular order..and those whose names we can't remember..It was nice to meet you and assuming we didn't manage to offend anyone we will be attending again...maybe next time we'll actually arrive at the right place and on time..although to be fair we weren't alone...!

Thank you.../David