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Oh dear
Not a good week

291 miles from home to Devon. 5 1/2 hours in total inc 2 pee breaks... knackered but Florence was utterly faultless. At one motorway stop had 7 different sets of people come over in car park to compliment us. Only one person asked if I got her new or as a kit....
HB

Only driving for a car wash after installing this third brake light. It is a very bright LED normally used by bikers but it looks decent in my view.

Drove down to Old Felixstowe for our Thursday walk. 5 or so miles to Felixstowe Ferry & back.

50 miles charging about the back lanes of Gloucestershire this afternoon, bedding in my newly-fitted EBC Green Stuff brake pads (Verdict: Excellent).

Passed another green Morgan coming the other way through Bibury around 14:15. Anyone on here?

120 miles to Gower and home. Lunch in the King Arthur, Cefn Bryn and then a quick visit to my sister in law on Welshmoor, all done in sunshine. Last journey before Tim Eyres gets the car and hopefully transforms front and rear suspension.

768 miles since Monday morning. Home to Lewtrenchard, Devon on Monday. Onto Polperro on Tuesday (damaged road with exhaust entering and leaving premises but still intact-phew). Bought a picture of Polperro in the snow and a wooden propellor in town (why wouldn’t you get one from a fishing village??) which subsequently found out was too wide to fit across the back behind the seats (ooops, I was a bit optimistic) this meant Lady HB had to spend the rest of the week holding onto it sticking from her footwell up into the sky..... Onto Trewithian via Bodmin steam on Wednesday. Onto Hungerford via Boscombe (defo recommend the aviation collection-can get into lots of different cockpits, took me back to my youth with the Chipmunk, v knowledgeable and helpful people present to chat to-brilliant) on Thursday. Back home yesterday. Majority of the time top down but regular showers meant frequent rapid stops to put roof up. Only time she leaked (the car, not Lady HB) was on Thursday in v heavy rain but only couple of drops. Florence was absolutely flawless throughout in terms of mechanical operation and sheer joy to drive. Much kindness shown by other people throughout, including photos, chats and waves from everyone from Ozzie fans, families, kids, biker ladies, white van man etc etc. Big shout out for Overboard bag (completely dry no matter how heavy the rain) and Kanulocks for security. Only saw one other Morgan the whole trip, which was a dark one on Thursday near St Austell. Lots of top notch hotels and food. Fuel economy varied between 40-45 which exceeded my expectations massively.
Overall a ruddy brilliant trip for me and Lady HB and a real high for us. I loved every exhausting second of it!
Can’t wait for our next major run, whenever that may be.
HB

Sounds like a fab trip HB.

Managed to get out this morning early doors but only did about 10% of your milage. Took the side screens off but only wore a shirt...definitely cold coming across the A59 at Blubberhouses

I want to go to Blubberhouses for no other reason than the name.
Whilst we were in Cornwall we spotted our perfect retirement village - Portwrinkle....
HB

HB re Port Wrinkle.

I think Blubberhouses must have got it’s name as you’d need to carry plenty of blubber on your body to survive the perishing cold there. It’s always the first road in our parts that gets closed my snow and for some reason always seems 10 degrees colder than anywhere else.