Personal Blog

Well the glorious winterval is over and I suppose I need to get back to writing my weekly update. Of course there is not too much to...

When I was a lot younger than I am today, I remember driving my Austin 1100 - a thing of unparalleled beauty - outside Dagenham Heathrow...

Still very frozen Scotland in the morning but no more snow seen. First task was to visit McCaig's folly. Oban seems to be built on 7...

Having bottled out of John O'Groats I won a more relaxed day for myself today. Just about 3-4 hours down the Great Glen. mainly...

I awoke at a sensible hour today, about 7.30. This was a posher hotel than I normally select (not all that posh, really) and opted for...

The reason I chose Pickering was that it is the home of Mathewsons car auctions which I watch on the TV. Some people claim I’m an idiot...

Following a perversion of the Nairn approach I went out through West Ealing, Perivale and the A40, leaving it when it motorwayed itself...

This may be a bit of winter lunacy, but having been busy with very local issues recently I decided I wanted to get away from it all for a...

I have just got myself a website, mainly because I find Facebook frustrating. I will publish new posts here and will continue to use Guy...

It must be 20 plus years since my friend – I will call him Alex - died. I avoided that euphemism ‘passed away’ because I have no reason...