‘One off, no MoT, rear is full of music.’ This advert needs a much longer description and more than one photo. www.carandclassic.com/l/C1859365

Itching to snowfoam this when I get home.

Society lost something when carparks starting asking for your car registration. Yes it was technically fraud, but passing on your non expired ticket to a grateful stranger as you left the car park was one of life's simple joys.

Stance. angliacarauctions.co.uk/auctions/274...

Introduce yourself with five cars you’ve owned. MCC Smart Lotus Elise 111R Lotus Europa Twin-Cam Sylva Riot SE Toyota MR2 Roadster

Too early to be thinking about Christmas really but I like the baubles in Lakeside.

A selection of oddments from today.

I’ve been on a train and now I’m on a bus. You couldn’t make this up.

The trusty Mondeo being support vehicle for a very different red K-reg car.

BLOL

Pretty much identical to the car I learned to drive in. Can’t remember the last time I saw one.

It’s been ages since I took an appropriate car to a show so it was good to take my very unexceptional base Mondeo to FOTU.

The thrill of gambling.

First proper road trip under its belt. Used it as a van to take a stand a mags to the Jim Clark event in Duns. Not bad for a car that stood for six years until January, and which has averages below 2000 miles per year over its lifetime.

Of course I meant 1965. Typo!

Three of the four single-seaters Jim Clark drove in 1968, the year he won the F1 World Championship, the Indy 500 and the Tasman Series. It’s a record that will never be beaten. The backdrop is Duns Castle.

That’ll polish out.

I’ve covered 1000 miles in the Mondeo now. To mark the milestone I’m going to clean off the algae (in this heat). A polish might have to wait until the weather cools down.

Little clip from Saturday’s Classic Team Lotus Garden Party. They’d assembled the biggest ever collection of ex-Jim Clark cars, including this Type 49. Volume up!

Please enjoy this street-parked E21 with its period roof rack and pre phONE Day dealer sticker.

Nick Clegg's new book is £25, but I'm sure he's okay with us stealing it.

Shooting an GS Europa today, an opportunity arose for a size comparison. I assure you the Europa is 1:1 scale.

Been saying this about the word "absolute" for years. There's a magazine called Absolute Lotus and it always makes me smirk when I see it on the newsstand.

Some Goodwood goings-on.

Meta have stolen the work of 1000s of writers to train their AI. All of my books were included in their illegal action. Today UK authors are protesting against this theft. Copyright law is clear: to use a creator’s copyrighted work, you need to get permission and agree payment. #DoTheWriteThing

Little outing in my unexceptional Mondeo took me past Grimsthorpe Castle, venue for FOTU. Seemed apt to stop for a pic.

For many years I’ve said I’ll one day own a Suzuki Whizzkid. I’ll probably continue to say that for many more years, but this one looks wonderful.

Please enjoy a pair of Saabs.

The world’s shiniest Allegro complete with period accessories. My mum had one in this colour.

This Cortina has only done 18,000 miles!

Think I unSORN’d too soon. Salty!

Did a photoshoot with an Elan Plus 2 today but, I’ll be honest, I did get distracted for a while.

Did you even snow foam if you didn’t take a photo? Finally made time to clean off the mud from a breakfast run in November.

OK, it cost more than a third of what I paid for the car, but it’s worth every penny. Has freshened up the whole appearance.

New roof day for the MR2. Here’s the point of no return…

1/ Strong words from Baroness Kidron in the Guardian today on copyright, AI and creators' rights - and ones that we support www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Light is right.

If you’re not from Manitoba, you may not have ever seen one of these before. This is a bombardier. Designed in 1937 in Quebec, these were originally used as rural ambulances and school buses. Adopted by commercial fisherman in Manitoba’s Interlake, you still see them regularly in winter. 1/2

Guess what county I’m in. That’s right! Gloucestershire.

First roof-down drive of the year. Only a matter of time now before the weather is good enough to clean it.

It didn’t fail that hard, so it’ll probably back on the road soon. As long as there are no curveballs.

New battery and reinflated tyres for an exploratory MoT today. Been off the road since 2019. Wish it luck…

Playmobilio.

Let’s all just agree that the internet hasn’t worked out and go back to a time before it.

The creative response to this seems to be to complain in fathomless Bluesky threads rather than read it and fill out the consultation. It took me a couple of hours and was hard, boring schoolwork. But if we do not actually interface with the process, then we might as well give up now.

This is the best take on AI I have read.

Almost forgot: this was the BBC’s slightly cruel take on it

Filth.

Apparently Storm Bert is making an incur across the UK but it hasn’t even moved a wheelie bin where I live.