If it turns out to be a wet day, I'm reserving the right to borrow my wife's diesel Touran! So fear not.

Fixed that for you....

weather is set fair for the next fortnight, so no excuses!

can i just check that the plan is to meet at the tea rooms at broughton at 11.00? we'll be coming up from carlisle and so there are a couple of ways of getting there.

just so that I don't do the same road twice, is the plan to get to moffat from broughton via the little road from tweedsmuir to st mary's loch and down the A708? If it is, i'll come up via moffat and the A701.

see you sun

Rich we'll aim to leave the tea rooms by 11.00 and head for Tweedsmuir and cut off toward Talla and Megget Reservoirs then St Mary's Loch.

I think this was the original idea proposed by my Honourable Secretary, fingers crossed or I'm in soapy

fab, that looks about right and we;ll come up to broughton the other way in enough time to get a cuppa

do the tearoom know we're coming??

Ambush?

Hm, you have a point - they should be warned about the Legolites

That's fine by me Simon.
Sorry, I didn't read your post properly the other night and thought you were getting confused where Howgate was.

That's the route
Leaving tea rooms at 11am.

Anyone not going to tea rooms?
I may give them a call and warn them to expect us.

You are talking about the shopping centre in Falkirk?

Now you are confused

I fine doing was forum I until this joined

A Yoda/Star Wars nerd as well

this could be quite a trip!

Coffee and lunch venues both updated with latest numbers

Spent a bit of time today preparing. Car is cleaned, polished and waxed. Wheels cleaned and waxed. Tyres scrubbed, dressed and pressures checked. She's ready to dance.
See you all tomorrow ladies and gents.

Esso @ 9.30......you picking up Rosso en route?

(cue Thunderbirds music...)

Cracking drive in magnificent scenery. Great to meet new coopsters and catch up with familiar faces.

Barney, you haven't changed a bit mate hope to see you in the Plus next time

Pics anybody? I didn't even attempt any with my phone!

Rob, so great to see you there and thank you so much for showing me what a 2.4T goes like. Your car is simply awesome!
Really enjoyed it today. Stunning views, blazing sunshine and most importantly honest, decent, friendly, respectable people. Thank you all for a great day.
Links to a few snaps I took...
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
If anyone would like higher res copies of the originals just drop me a PM.
Cheers, Bern.

yes- lovely to meet everyone (some of you again) properly!

and lovely to find ourselves at the Scottish Skimming Finals also!!

stunning weather and drives; great company over lunch, lots of laughs.

Parts of Scotland I wouldn't even have said were in Scotland!?

I think doing it again- I'd try to stay overnight in Moffat- if we'd all stayed overnight it would have been great!!

It was like a big family outing with a big family I never even knew we had...!

I hope you all put your handbrakes on and left them in gear so that you didn't roll into that big puddle , looked like a great day out .

As above, great family day for young and old, nothing too heavy and the best of sunny weather floated along above us.
A surprise and welcome visit from Rob40 in his Rosso 2.4 beast who forgot to bring his barbecue
and good to meet Barney too at last released from his desk in Baku even if he was slumming it in an mighty atom 300 bhp VX 220

The kids taught us how to play skimmers on the reservoir and we turned a head or two arriving in Moffat for lunch, very acoustically friendly

In the hotel forecourt
and ("I drove this")

en route



D.G. and Rosso, I've sent you pics via PM so you can vet them first!

Re lunch at Moffat, think I've now PM'd or texted everyone

Great photos guys!

I think I speak not only for myself when I say that I think we are all holding out for "the footage from the silver car"...!

(however, work and home life being what they are- an undefined point in the future of time will suffice!!)

Very much so...I feel this could be "extended" footage

I'm afraid you will be disappointed as the footage is not great - as it was the uninitiated Legolites - Sofia and Lewis who took the exterior clips with the monopod. Suffice to say they are not great. Young Michael who has used it before and has an excellent eye and photographic skills, was sitting on the wrong side of the car to be able to use it. He was also in Bernard's car part of the journey. I had meant to get the tripod and camera out the boot and get a proper group photo at the Hotel but alas forgot. So I'm even more annoyed because that was the best part of going to that Hotel.

The few stills I took are just the same as the others that have been posted.

I'll go check Michael's Pics, though he said his were not great.

Just thought, for quickness, I'd let everyone know that the hotel has refunded the correct amount of money which was overcharged - anyone can make mistakes and I feel that they should be given credit for owning up to it

We'll just be more vigilant next time!