06-04-2021, 09:34 PM
Today was doing a recce for the Five Hills Tour, to be run at the end of May. Some snow, a lot of sun for nine hours of motoring. One incident involving a retired kamikaze pilot driving a Transit pick up for a builder in Gloucester, fortunately there were no telegraph poles hidden in the hedge. Numbers of horses, no wild boar were spotted in the Forest of Dean. Encountered a 2CV owner who makes mine look like a car that carries coal and sometimes goes trialling, two 50s Mack trucks, a semi derelict 1500 BMC Riley but not a singleTR2. Longhope was last recorded as being used in 1922, despite the subsequent thirteen years of motor car development, it still proved rather steep for the Ruby, the passenger had to dismount and push vigorously to help restart. We ended up at Bill Parker's locomotive works.