Rally

Tabs arrived back from the vet on Wednesday after being spayed. Given that she’s about half the weight of Tummy, her she only had two tiny stitches. She’s not bothered by them at all
We left on Friday night to go down to Galashiels for the Border Counties Rally. The rally was actually on Saturday in Jedburgh, but Skip had booked us in at a nice B&B in Galashiels so we could get to Jedburgh for our 0730 start. The B&B (Watson Lodge) didn’t normally serve food at the time we needed, but they left out a jug of milk in a lovely little mini-fridge in the dining room. Just that little bit of thought that made it nice 🙂
My tasks were SS2 and SS9, Ogre Hill and Byrness Hill. SS9 is the same as SS2, but in reverse. SS2 was called off at the last minute due to snow and sheet ice that was preventing marshalls and emergency crew from reaching their stations. The end result was that Charlotte and I could head off to the Rochester Cafe for a large lunch, and then for a snooze before SS9 at 1612 🙂 Delays on SS8 meant that SS9 started over an hour late, and with only 19 cars due through from a starting batch of 75 National A entrants. Fun moments including almost sliding the car into a ditch whilst parking it, getting lost next to the Army Training Range during an excercise (well, the explosions were coming from that direction…), getting stuck in the snow twice at the start of SS9, and the sudden departure of our Officials sticker from the windscreen at 70mph (and subsequent retrieval). The recovery teams were well prepared, with a barbecue going in amongst the mounds of snow. Next time we’ll bring something 🙂