December 2010 - the Big Winter Trip

Early December, and Daisy has her biggest trip to date, 547 miles in 2 1/2 days.

Leaving Lichfield, with my sons friend "Hutch" it was a little trip down to Lympstone to see Tom get his "Green Beret". Why we choose the coldest weekend of the year for this trip I will never know, the window screen just about keeping ice free and the van temp about -1!, the warmth of the MOD canteen and a hot coffee had rarly been so welcome! After the presentation, I left "Hutch" with Tom and headed back up the M5 to bed down in a Travelodge, sorry but there was no way I was sleeping in van at -12!     

Friday dawned, along with the frost we now had fog, the planned route to Glastonbury a slow drive with very poor driving. Glastonbury was fog bound and after a quick coffee I was back on the A363 / A36. 

Hopping on the 303, a coffee stop at Stonehenge, and group of Japanise tourist taking as many pictures of Daisy as the stones!  

Lymington reached, time for a night out with the Action For Charity "crew", a great night, but not such a great morning after! 

Saturday morning and the fog and frost had given way to rain, and so at least I didnt after to clear the ice from the windows, M27, M3, A34, M40, M42, A38 and home. Daisy never missed a beat and apart from a few wagons we held up we didnt have any problems, altough the fingers and toes took some warming up!

Classic Car Show

November, sorry for the lack of updates, life has been getting in the way!

November sees the Classic Car Show held at the NEC and my plan was to pop along in Rascal the MG Midget, but the size of our party increased so Daisy was called to action.

It was a great day out with some lovely cars, a good auto-jumble and a few trade stands, plus Wheeler Dealers "live" stage, which was entertaining!   

The highlight though was the wonderful "Wall of Death" http://www.wall-of-death.co.uk/index01.html if you get chance to see these they are great!

http://www.necclassicmotorshow.com/