July 2008
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(24th July 2008)
I am thinking of writing a book about cars. Please don't ask, "what about cars?" because the answer will be "I don't know. Just cars." For this reason, I attended the British Motor Show at Excel two days ago. I went by bike. It was not too difficult, once the hideous Grove Road had been overcome, as those nice London cycle-way building people have built ...
(23rd July 2008)
There are so many tales. The time when a keeper of a lightship went berserk, and the crew going aboard were told to arm themselves with a pick-axe handle. The time, way back when, when there only used to be two light-house keepers, and one died and the other went mad, despite taking the precaution of hanging his dead mate out of the window. These ...