Hi All,

The next Derby and Notts area meeting will be on Sunday 3 June at The Queens Head, Main Road, Watnall, NG16 1HT at 8.00 pm, everybody welcome.

Regards

John Area Sec

Next Wednesday, 30th May, 7PM onwards, Malt Shovel Pub, Coventry Road, Nr Stonebridge, Coventry, CV7 7HL

Entrance to the pub car park is off the A452 Chester Road heading North 50 yards from the island.

See you there

The area meeting will be held at The Church Mouse,Waldridge, Chester-le-Street. DH2 3RJ on the 30th of May. all are invited to attend, so whether you have a Ferrari, a MX5, a Zero or an Astra Van you are all welcome. I have contacted the weather forecasters and they guarantee brilliant sunshine so look forward to seeing you all there.

The annual Wales Weekend will take place as usual on the second weekend in August, Friday 10th to Sunday 12th 2018.

Im putting this is the Members area first because we normally get some club funding and therefore its only fair that members get first shout on places before its rolled out to others. Some of the regular attendees have already asked me about this and have started booking accommodation so well keep a similar format to last year as things seemed to go fairly smoothly and if less things are changed, less should go wrong.

For any newcomers the format is departing on the morning of Friday 10th August with overnight stays on Friday and Saturday nights, a jolly days drive Saturday and return home on Sunday. The Friday morning departure isnt compulsory (some people may need to work) so if you cant travel up in the group, you can join us later.

Accommodation choices are camping, B&B or hotels in the Nefyn area of Gwynedd in North West Wales. The camping has been a slow starter in previous years but it gathered some momentum last year and hopefully this will continue. Possible choices locally area as follows:

Terfyn B and B
Lon Terfyn
Morfa Nefyn
LL53 6BA
01758 721332
http://www.terfynbedandbreakfast.com/

Llys Olwen Guest House
Lon Tan Y Bryn
Morfa Nefyn
LL53 6BT
01758 720493
http://llysolwen.co.uk/

Glascoed B and B
Lon Uchaf
Morfa Nefyn
LL53 6AL
01758 720151

Nanhoron Arms Hotel
St Davids Road
Nefyn
Pwllheli
Gwynedd
LL53 6EA
Tel: 01758 720203
http://www.nanhoronhotel.com/

Fairway Country Hotel
Lon Ilchaf
Morfa Nefyn
Gwynedd
LL53 6AD
01758 721888
www.fairwaycountryhotel.co.uk

For camping most people stayed here last year and it seemed ok. Graeanfryn Farm did do B&B as well but I believe this isnt now available but the camping is still on.

Graeanfryn Farm Camping
Morfa Nefyn
LL53 6YQ
01758 720455

Second option is a bit closer to Nefyn, no website and its fairly small site but its very popular for camping and gets good reviews:

Wern Caravan Park
Pistyll
Nefyn
LL53 6LN
01758 720432

Third option is just down the road from me, looks a nice site right next to the sea but might be worth checking access for kits because I know that the access road was a bit uneven:

Penisarlon Farm
Pistyll
Nefyn
LL53 6LR
01758 721553
http://www.penisarlonfarm.co.uk/home

Ive only stayed at the Nanhoron Hotel so I cant offer reviews on any of the others so if in doubt, see what the regulars are booking and try and bag a place there.

For the Saturday run out we will be going back to the Canolfan Prysor at Trawsfyndd again for late afternoon food. We popped in to see Beth there a few weeks ago and shes keen to see us there again this year so Im happy to return. Theyll sort out some meal choices and Ill post the details later.

On the Sunday morning Jackie is going to organise some horse riding for anyone thats interested which will probably be a 3 hour session. This can be tailored to all abilities so if youve always fancied a go, this could be the time to try it.

We want to give this the broadest appeal possible so if families want to come along but dont fancy the drive on the Saturday, theres plenty of other stuff to do in the local area and we can give details of that as well.

If theres any question, just ask.

ATTENDEES

Richy and Jackie

Kerry and Sharon

Dan + one or two

Nanhoron Arms

Derek and Marilyn

Mark B and Craig

Steve, Dee and Paige

David

Martin, Karen and Isabelle

Llys Olwen

Trevor and Brian

Fairway Country Hotel

Stuart and Sarah

Zach and Hannah

Andi, Clare and Jasper

Jez and Andy

Location TBC

Keith

Durham automobile Club are organising this event at Witton Castle, Witton le Wear Co. Durham DL14 0DE, from 11 am till 4pm with classes for all ages of cars, tractors and motorcycles.

Entries from Tel. 07733243842 and entries close on 30th June.

LE167QB

9am until 2pm

£3 to get in

All details in this link

https://motoringevents.net/classic-car-show-autojumble-details/28615-Harborough-Sports-Classic-and-Vintage-Meet.html

We will also get a look into the future.... It`s where the end of season bash will be

Hi all, Winterslow Village Fete have invited us once again. Takes place on 16th June starting at 12 noon. We would like a few (or many) cars to grace the field in aid of the local Scouts & Village Hall.

We shall have an evening BBQ for those attending or we can enjoy the live music at the Rec. Or we could manage both.

Music continues 'til 11pm.

Names & cars attending please.

It probably wont have escaped your notice that we've had some downtime of the forum over the last 24 hours. To avoid any unnecessary concern or speculation, the reason was as follows.

Yesterday evening, following guidance from the company that provides our forum software, a duplicate of the website was taken so that an update could be tested on it. To be clear, this was an update to our existing forum software NOT the application of new software that was mentioned at the AGM and is planned for later in the year,

Unfortunately despite following the expert advice, the upgrade process failed and when a fresh install was run to correct the failure, it actually overwrote the original site.

Attempts to restore the backup then failed due to the size of the files involved. The backup uploaded successfully but were too large for the server to process so it timed out during each attempt. Due to the configuration of the server, we were unable to simply re-upload the backup to restore the site as access to do the restore this way wasn't available.

Today a support request was sent to the company that provides our hosting and attempts were also made to contact them by telephone. Contact was finally made just after 7PM tonight and a full restore back to Monday was done which was completed successfully and the site was back online for a short period around 830PM.

It was then manually taken offline in order to bring the site back up to the point it was just before it went down yesterday so there should be minimal data loss.

Unfortunately this seems to have been a case of despite following the guidance of our software provider, things that they said should have happened didn't and we weren't in a position to fix them.

The committee are already discussing what steps need to be put in place to avoid a re-occurrence of these sort of problems and when this is done, further details will be posted.

Thanks to Stuart for his efforts trying to sort this out. I know he has spend a large proportion of the day on this - time he should have been spending at work.

Thanks also to Matt Augier (matt-moo) from our current web hosting provider for his assistance in resolving these problems.

Now Stoneleigh is out the way Its on with the next big event.

This years End Of Season Bash will be held at the Market Harborough Show Ground, Market Harborough LE16 7QB on the 14th-16th of September.

If you have not been before this is a Great Value Family Fun weekend of camping, driving, bouncing and entertainment with like minded petrol heads with the added bonus of the Market Harborough Sports classic and Vintage Meet on Sunday the 16th at the end of the weekend which has plenty of attendance link below.

https://www.facebook.com/Harborough-Sports-Classic-Vintage-Meet-870986849750952/

A Treasure hunt type run out is being planned to ensure there is plenty of opportunity to get out and enjoy the cars and there are certainly plenty of nice country roads and places to explore.

Ticket are available NOW online via the link below (Members discount code will be posted in members section)http://www.rhocar.org/index.php?showtopic=46639

Advanced pre book Ticket prices are as follows and available Via the link below and will be avail til 10th sept.

https://billetto.co.uk/en/e/the-uk-kit-car-end-of-season-bash-tickets-286936

Members Camping

Adults 16+ - £15 Per Person
Children 10-15 accompanied by an adult - £7.50 per person
Children Under 9 Are FREE (Ticket download still required)

Non Rhocar Members Camping

Adults 16+ - £18 Per Person
Children 10-15 accompanied by an adult - £9 per person
Children Under 9 Are FREE (Ticket download still required)

Day tickets for Saturday 15th ONLY are available @ £7.50 per person age 10+ (Must leave site by 10.00PM)

Online Tickets are subject to a booking fee per ticket

On the gate tickets will be available but will be £20 for the weekend camping (£10 child over 10) and £10 day ticket (Saturday Only)

Online tickets will be available until 5pm Friday 14th September 2018 so plenty of time to get them in advance!

Getting your ticket in advance helps us organise the event as we can plan better if we know the number of attendees.
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If anyone has anything they can add to this event, Idea's for the weekend, Maybe you are a budding musician and would like to play or a trader that wants to offer your services etc please contact me on Events@rhocar.org

I have attached an image of the flyer please feel free to send this out to other, share the event etc The more the merrier the site is a total of 60 acres so space is not an issue and would be great to get as many car there as possible.

All activities are subject to change as the event develops and all updates and additional information will be posted here.

If you have any issues with Links etc please contact me on the above email.

Many thanks

Keith Kelly
Event Secretary