Last week two of our regular Thursday Door contributors – the illustrious Norm himself and the wonderfully whimsical Jean Reinhardt – posted a couple of light-hearted entries at a slight tangent to the usual ‘door on a building’ theme. I confess that this week I have not been able to be out and about in search…
Tag: Cars
Motorcycles, Engines and Bandits
Anyone who has read my blog posts thus far will perhaps have gathered that I have a quirky ancestry of mad people and genius inventors. One of these, my greatgrandfather, was involved in the creation of the very earliest Rolls Royce cars and it is therefore perhaps not so strange that I have a particular…
Vintage Childhood #2 – Dinkys, Corgis & Lesneys
A small homage to the vintage childhood when imagination was more valued than the microchip. Once long ago , before the invention of iPods and iPads and SuperMario Game Boys and Nintendos, my younger brother received for his birthday a very fine model garage. It’s most distinguished attribute was a state of the art toy…
Classic Chassis Part Two
When I passed my driving test and it was time to look for a suitable car to buy, I soon realised that I didn’t really want a suitable car atall but a totally unsuitable one. I trawled the local garages with my dear Dad desperately hoping to find something that wasn’t a dull old Ford…
A Classic Chassis and the Mad Inventor
Once upon a time there lived a mad inventor who had the particular peculiarity of retiring to his bed at the end of the cricket season, refusing to get up again until the sound of leather on willow announced that another new season had begun. The inventor had 14 children – no doubt something to…
View from a French Hillside 