Police Blue

Teaching today in an ex Rhodesian Police Land Rover, it was bought in Scotlandwell!!
Great fun but very hard work without power steering, it is going to join the Mad on Mud Club.
Still very dry on the hill but no doubt the rain will arrive soon.

busy September

I am normally playing golf for most of September but this year the training has not let up so it has been work, work, work!! Quad training near Drem today and a budding Club member yesterday.
Golf tomorrow!

Jeep

Teaching in a Jeep at the start of the week, good fun and didn't get stuck! Finished the last few days teaching ecologists from Edinburgh for renewables work. Golfing next week so I'll be having a few days off. Club BBQ this Sunday 1st September on the hill camping site, I am doing sausages and burgers for eats but bring your own drinks and PLEASE LET ME KNOW if you are attending.

Training

A selection of some of the vehicles we provide training to the British Off Road Driving Association standards on. BORDA is HSE approved and we can come you to do the training or do it here with our special dedicated training areas.

summer at last!!

JCB and I have been cleaning out the big pond for the first time in a few years, the mud gathers in the middle as people drive around it making it impassable. It has been so wet for the last couple of years that we have not been able to clean it out but all the mud is cleared now so who is going to be first to drive through it??!!
The Partridges have had a successful breeding season, although late with the cold spring, on the hill and we have quite a few mums with chicks around the tracks. Please look out for them and leave them in peace, if you see a Partridge very close to you it normally means she has chicks there  and you will hear her cheap cheap cheaping for them.
I was on the very top of hill (1023 feet) yesterday with Mark, who has just joined the Club, during a thunderstorm and we had a few snow flakes on the windscreen! Nearly the end of July!
  

June

Great fun with a lovely couple from Edinburgh last weekend who brought along their Jeep for a BYO session, it had lot's more mud on it by the time we finished!!
Club members having a usual weekend gathering.
The site is drying up a bit at last and I hope to get some of the water splashes cleared of the thick mud that has gathered in them over the next week.
Finally I will try and do this blog a bit more regularly!

Parking

Needing a traffic warden at times on the hill!!
Some of our local Mad on Mud Club members having a chin wag on a Sunday afternoon, as well as doing some pretty crazy off roading.
Last winters winds and frost have been so severe all the east facing gorse bushes have been scorched as you can see in the pic, flowering this year is three weeks behind.