We had breakfast at JAMAICA INN on our way back from a week’s camping in Cornwall recently. The world famous hostilary, immortalised by Daphne du Maurier in her novel of…
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If You Aren’t Freezing, You Are Roasting! Early season 2018
We’re almost passing out from the heat at Prescott Hillclimb , my daughter Charlotte and I. It’s July 14th and the hot summer has dried the grass up to a…
Read moreIf You Need Something Doing Properly…The Rise Of The Author-Publisher
(NOTE: Please check the added material at the end of this article from noted exponant of the genre Chris Ellard, added 28/1/18) I was talking recently with my journalist friend…
Read moreIs It Worth Even Going Now? Streaming Motorsport
Back when Murray Walker and James Hunt were a newly matched commentary team and Bernie Ecclestone hadn’t yet got his hands on “F1″the brand , the amount of TV coverage…
Read moreRound A Muddy Field By The Severn – Up A Muddy Bank In Wales
July : The school holidays were still in full swing, the summer was not far past it’s peak and here we were sat in my car in a muddy field…
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Kevin, the Ice cream man stopped his van as it headed past us towards the exit. It was something after 6pm on a Sunday evening and raining. Kevin leaned out…
Read moreThe Things You See When You Havn’t Got Your Camera…Until Now. Classics On Dash-Cam
In recent weeks I have, for one reason and another, done a lot of travelling between home, in the Forest of Dean, and Cheltenham, 30 or so miles North along…
Read moreThe Longest Day(s) : Le Mans 1996
Earlier this year a photo was published in VINTAGE RACECAR magazine . It was taken on the starting grid at Le Mans for the 1996 24 hours race and was…
Read moreBeauty & The Beast : Prescott La Vie en Bleu /Vito en Rosso 2017
Saturday evening. Lazing on the big wide sofa with a pint of real ale, inappropriately grubby rigger boots on my feet , my familiar black Aussie bush hat still on…
Read moreYet Another “Twenty Years Ago Today…” Moment : My Most Costly Mistake.
There are a few moments in life when you can say you reached that fork-in-the-road and the direction you took altered everything afterwards. Twenty years ago today , Easter Monday…
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