OUT AND ABOUT SO FAR

We must have been Crackers!!!!!

We entered this run in our Mini just to lower the tone from all those impressive MG’s and had a good run starting from Rheged early on the Sunday morning. We saw Les and Ruth in their very smart looking MG and Mike and Alan in the very purposeful looking Tiger out to play for the day .I was a bit concerned about the weather, being for a change wet but the Mini shrugged off such problems and ran like a dream as only an eighties Austin Rover

product can. Alright I cant pretend any more we had a little damp problem , sorry must come clean It ran like a pig not helped by drowning the thing trying to cross the ford ( and I don't mean the Jim Scott type of ford ) This caused the present Mrs Ashcroft to get feet wet and left me wondering were a

civilised well bred lady learnt language which I could not possibly repeat here. something about Minis and could have been sat at home but it was a bit hard to be clear from the inside of the car, in the dry!

After a brief drying out spell and bribery to the navigator we managed to get going and continued on a choice of cylinders , not all at the right time maybe, for much of the day, but we did manage to finish where much to our surprise we were not A) last or B) the only ones to suffer in the ford. I would certainly recommend this run to any one as a good way to finish the Classic year and recognition must go to the organisers of the event which is well run and most all fun for everyone to do . Just next year we might bring some

Wellingtons in the car!

Ralph