.......and the sun shone

I had to dip out of a club run this morning much to my frustration, especially when the day dawned dry and there was a significant chance of sunshune later on in the day. I finished my domestic duties by midday and decided I needed to clear my head with some fresh air, even if the emphasis was on fresh. No sooner had I pulled the car from the garage then the sun broke cover and all was well with the world. 

Where to go, Lap of the Lyddring, a hoon down to Rye and return via Military Road sounded favourite. So off I tootled through Ashford and out onto the Brenzett Road. Roads weren't to busy and with the sun shining I actually had the darkened lenses in the Shades.

Lyddring was outstanding and only a couple of cars to contend with and on the hoon into Rye I duly slowed to 30 on entering the port on the Camber side of the bridge to be greeted by Mr Plod with a hairdryer. He smiles as I burbbled by at 25mph. Have a nice day.

I love Rye as a location anyway but when its bathed in sun its a beautiful place. Had a quick chat with a couple of bikers at the chip shop carpark and then headed out of town via the Miltary Road. Can you sense the childish grin in my writing?! For those that don't know the Military Road then you need to discover it. For those that do know it, you know what I mean!

I got back onto the Brenzett Road at Appledor and started picking my way through the traffic back towards Ashford. Managed to get the Indy sideways as I dropped to third and toed it to get past a car that was dropping some liquid. Clearly the fuel of satan was coming out and covering my tyres as well as my glasses! Thanks for that! I gathered my thoughts and gave them the universal sign for "you are leaking fluid young man and need to investigate at your ealiest opportunity" and headed home.

Now I had a great afternoon and got home feeling slightly better about myself then realised I had missed a number of photo opportunities during the run! D'oh! This year SKCC (Southern Kit Car Club) are running a photo competition for us to get our cars photographed in a number of different locations corrosponding to all the letters of the alphabet.. I passed at least 4 opportunities today. Note to self, extract head from orifice and get clicking!

Oh well, just have to do it again another day!

This Year (2011)

So here we are at the end of January (where did that go) and already I've covered close to 1000 miles in the car since its winter upgrade. A lot of these miles have been to run the car in and a trip to Norfolk to get it Rolling Roaded and mapped. I have however had two club blats (more of that elsewhere) in th freezing cold (I secretly love it) which means two cooked breakfasts.

The rest of this year's adventures are coming together nicely and I will cover them in detail as they occur but to whet the appertite so far the car and club social diary looks like this:

1. France for the "5th rallye des jonquilles" in April
2. A trip to Ypes for the WW1 experience in June
3. "Up the East Down the West" UK road trip for 5 days in later April
4. Stoneleigh Kit Car Show in Later April
5. Detling Kit Car Show in May

This listing doesn't include the weekend breakfast blats and evening runs in the summer. So all in all my blatting diary is shaping up nicely.

I mentioned ealier about a club, well I am a member of the SKCC (Southern Kit Car Club) and they can be found at http://www.southerkitcars.com/ . I have to declare they are the reason I love my car so much. I have made some great friends in the club and we are all like minded and dedicated to driving our cars the way they were intended to be driven. I will no doubt refer to the club a lot on this blog.

So enough waffle for now, I will be back to describe progress on my adventures presently.