2016 LEGS Breakfast Club Calendar

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This post is all about everything Lotus happening in Scotland that I'm aware about at the moment.  We are not in competition with anybody so I have happily listed some non TLF items as well.  We are a small enough community and we can all help each other.   In turn they help us as well so it is win/win.  The more that tuns out to anything somebody has organised gives a nice warm feeling believe me!

Brian (bingoking) or I will (hopefully) be able to update this if we get more information so please do PM us and we will try and keep relevant.  For ease of separation the 12 Breakfast Club items are in blue.  For any newbie's reading, remember it is wherever possible the first Sunday of every month we try and arrange something.

A separate post will appear for information on each of the individual events for you to post up your attendance on or ask questions.  Please do try and tell us if you are coming along, or if you have to pull out last minute as nothing worse than being the organiser and having been making promises to establishments on numbers either having no shows or extras not allowed for can cause some bad feeling.

Information is in the order of:

Day/Date                  Location                  What                  Organiser/notes

 

LEGS & more 2016 Calendar and ideas

Sunday 10th January   Corrierie’s Café. Causeway head near Stirling  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Al.  (NOTE!  Not the first Sunday as too close to festivities for most)

Wednesday 13th Jan   Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 7th February   Murray Motor Co. Bankhead Drive, Edinburgh  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Al.  Hosted by Brandon and our Favourite Lotus dealership.  Come along and meet the new Sales Exec Ian Parkin

Wednesday 10th Feb   Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 6th March   The Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre. Whin's O Milton, Stirling  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Janet Campbell.  One of Scotlands newest visitor attractions refurbished in 2014 for the 700th Anniversary and I believe very interactive.  Getting great reviews and we will get Group entry and more to follow. Find out more at http://battleofbannockburn.com 

Wednesday 9th March   Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 3rd April   Run to the SW inc. new David Coulthard Museum. "the SW bit of Scotland"  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Al & Bingoking.  More to follow but will be a slightly earlier start within first meet at Abingdon for those who want. Travel to new DC Museum which is attached rot a chocolate factory and cafe (What a shame) A full ex. F1 Simulator is available and we will try and see how many we can get through that. Intention is a drive through the rest of that part of the world on the way home.  Route to follow (& I will be looking for help!!)

Wednesday 13th April   Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 1st May   Lotus Only Day at Grampian Transport Museum (GTM). Alford  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Gordon Masson.  Due to a bunching of the calendar later in year in the NE area this is a new date for us and our honoured Lotus Only day at the GTM giving passenger rides and having some non-competitive fun. 

Sunday 8th May  TLF International Lotus Day | MBW/Brooklands The date of this is yet to be 100% confirmed AFAIK so watch out in the main forum and we will also post up as I believe a few intend ending to head S in Convoy I believe.

Wednesday 11th May   Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

Sat/Sun 14th/15th May.  Jim Clark Museum, Duns. This will be the Jim Clark memorial w/e and more will follow from Andrew Laing and Club Lotus for what is planned this year.

 

Sunday 5th June  Petit Paris + Craig Moncrieff. The Grassmarket, Edinburgh  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Andrew Laing & Al.  Always an oversubscribed favourite and a month later again than usual for hopefully even better weather? Well you can only try! On breaking up from The Grassmarket Craig will have an "Open afternoon" for anybody who wishes to drop in for a coffee and see his new premises/ chat projects/meet old faces.

Wednesday 8th June   Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 3rd July  Speedfest 2016 at Grampian Transport Museum (GTM). Alford  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Gordon Masson.  Anybody receiving invitations please liaise through Gordon and watch for posts so we can maximise our impact.

Wednesday 13th July   Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 7th August  David Hayton Lotus. Carlise's new lotus dealer  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser John Cherry. More info to follow inc a possible private track and confirmation of dates but they would like to see us down for a visit/raiding party over "the Wall"

Wednesday 10th August  Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

Sunday 21st August  New Annual Event.  Royal Deeside Speed Event, Kincardine Castle. (west of Banchory area) Organiser Anthony Yule (& others!) This will be a similar style event to the GTM Speedfest but without some of the restrictions becoming apparent as the event grew.  See also the posting separately pinned in LEGS here for more info. 

 

Fri/Sat 2nd/3rd  September Friday afternoon Visit to Nissan Factory Sunderland with 3 hour guided Tour followed by further local Motoring activities following day hopefully including an Aston Martin heritage visit.   LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Derek Meldrum.  We will be running this one in company with the Scottish AMOC for the run so you all have to promise to behave and not shoot off and leave them behind .  We will invite our NE Engalandshire Cousins to join us as well.  More details to follow and yes it will have to be a Friday afternoon for the Nissan factory part unfortunately.  

Wednesday 14th September Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 2nd October Dawyck Botanic Garden @ Stobo near Peebles  LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Mark Rigby (Hedgerly). More to follow but website link here.

Wednesday 12th October Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 6th November Bo'ness Transport Museum special viewing.  Bo'ness (near Falkirk) LEGS Breakfast Club  Organiser Al. & Brian.  This is where the Club Lotus meet monthly and for those who have never actually toured the small museum below an ideal opportunity to be given a guided tour by the owner who is a James Bond fan with many exhibits and memorabilia, stories and much more inc. an S1 Lotus Esprit & lots more James Bond themed cars.  A real treat to look forward to!  breakfast will be elsewhere before hand and TBC arrangements.  Weblink is here

Wednesday 9th November Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Sunday 4th December Powmill Milk Bar to plan 2017 in advance  LEGS Breakfast Club talking about 2017 already.  

Wednesday 14th December Bo’ness Motor Museum  Club Lotus & others like ourselves    20:00 All Lotus owners welcome.

 

Although not planned for this year a reminder that EVERY Sunday there is the V8 Breakfast Club at The Fennel restaurant in Inverurie if anybody is interested and we may use as a fall back if any of ours should fail.