The weather was nice so I took a blast across to the West coast and back. It would have been even better if I'd had the presence of mind to take the hard-top off before I left.

I saw a Mk4 the same colour as yours Ian, parked about half way between Poolewe and Ullapool and I thought "it can't be" and... it wasn't.

It was a cracking day over there; surprisingly warm in the sun, contrasting with heavy frost that persisted all day in the shadows of the hills and in little hollows (more near Inverness than right over on the West to be fair).

Road grime made the car filthy.

I was able to take a walk around Inverewe gardens in a T-Shirt and sit for a bit facing the ocean soaking up a few very, very late summer sunrays. The car doesn't have an ambient temp gauge but the external temperature certainly dropped sharply when the sun went away.