JEC South Lincs - April 2024. Club News

This year’s driving season began straight after Easter, when 23 members visited Doddington Hall, Lincoln, to enjoy a convivial and hearty breakfast.

Later in the month, April’s meeting saw our chairman being ambushed, compelled to wear amusing badges, and listen to a dodgy rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’! On the plus side, he and the membership were then given delicious cake to eat. Thank you, Carol and Russ, for arranging that lovely impromptu celebration. Thereafter, the chairman recovered sufficiently to deliver his presentation ‘Remind me again how Tulip Routes work’, which aimed to ensure that everyone participating in the Region’s Drive it Day tour would stand a fighting chance of navigating to their lunch stop on time. Happily, all 43 participants subsequently completed the route without too many missed turns, so the advanced briefing apparently worked!

The day itself began with everyone gathering at The White Horse in Baston, where most of us fuelled-up on delicious bacon or sausage breakfast baps and tea or coffee. Then the cars departed to follow a delightful 55-mile route, comprising a mixture of quiet country lanes and faster roads with sweeping bends, that journeyed through scenic countryside via quaint villages. The run took in Rutland Water and the historic market town of Uppingham, skirted Eyebrook reservoir and presented views of the impressive Harringworth viaduct from several angles, before finishing at the elegant stone town of Stamford, where an excellent lunch was served at Burghley Park Golf Club.

Our thanks go to all three venues mentioned.