A big clear up.

When you reach the point that it is quicker to go out and buy a new screwdriver/spanner/hammer/flange sprocket, than find the one you know you’ve had for years, it’s time to clear out the garage. Will and I did just that this weekend, helped by our pal Ian and his 10 year old son, Casper. A load went to the tip and the rest was sorted out into boxes scavenged from the road side and recycled. It was very rewarding as I’m sure like minded readers will appreciate.

My other car's an old 4x4 too.

Always a thrill to get an MOT certificate. Dug out of it’s resting place of six months in my lock up, persuaded to start, tyres pumped up and £1.15 lavished on a new exhaust gasket, fitted after dinner one night. A pleasant trundle up to a remote garage in Derbyshire where the owner races classic bikes. A thorough test of the few things on an old Land Rover that apply in such tests and Bob’s your uncle! He even commented how good it was to drive. A new ‘Tax Exempt’ disk in the windscreen and away we go for another year. The bike in the picture is a stripped down CB 350. Very successful apparently.