Well Jim, by his own admission he was a Cocaine user for fifteen years. Then he makes a programme about depression–f*ck me, I’m surprised he’s got a brain left to be depressed with. My old Doctor (Dr Shah–who was brilliant) told me to lay off alcohol, tobacco and of course illegal drugs. Fortunately, I’ve never felt the need to use them. I’ve never been much of a drinker either, although I did use to enjoy a cigarette. I just think that he’s rather devalued a terrible situation for so many people. A point not missed by the reptiles who write the Daily Mail. By deduction therefore–all depressives must be ex-druggies–I’m not…!!!!

Two things Jim.
Firstly, he like me suffers from depression–very badly.
Unlike me, he made two hours of TV about his condition.
And further unlike me, he took a lot of funny chemicals when he was young–a sure way to exacerbate any mental illness.
I had a lot of sympathy for him at the time when I heard he was a sufferer, but I have a lot less sympathy if it’s partially self induced.

Oh, and that QI gets on my t*ts–a load of clever middle class boys trying to prove to the plebs how clever they are. Personally, I neither want it or need it.

It was the thought of Fry – always brings on a few yawns!:(

He largely has that effect on me as well Charlie.

Oh, and your first picture is a very tidy Panhard et Levassor, driven here (and owned) by Nick mason of Pink Floyd.

As you original caption said (edited) and sorry.

entry 088 is a 1901 Milwaukee Steam car.
For your information, you don’t need an MOT for these cars now. However, for purposes of insurance, you will need a boiler cert for a steam car. last year we entered our slightly later 1903 locomobile steam car. Steam cars are mainly American and something of a law (and maybe lore) unto themselves. Wonderful things though, and for a time in America at least, rivaled the internal combustion engine as the way forward.

The tricycle (sometimes described as a forecar) is an 1898 Leon Bollee 4HP. As a lover of early tricycles, quads and motorcycles, this sort of thing to me is what the L2B is all about.

Thanks for posting. We were at Redhill and Crawley at lunchtime. The collection didn’t enter a car this year, but we’re hopeful for next year.
A.

Yes, bottom of the hill opposite the presently closed village shop–what happened there? I now have to buy my milk in Shillington.
Pop in sometime and say hello. Go in the gate–turn right and I’m down the bottom. My little blue car will stand there if I’m open.
back to aviation. I often wonder in idle moments what the sky must have looked and sounded like in the 1920’s when there were two squadrons of Snipes at Henlow and the School of Parachuting with Vimys and later Virginias.

I’m sure I saw it shooting a few circuits at RAF Henlow last Tuesday (15th)? didn’t get a great view due to the landing runway but looked (and sounded) like it from a distance.

Thanks to coincidence, there is a replica Mew Gull at Henlow at present. It’s red, but don’t ask me the reg, because I don’t know–I can tell you that it’s nice though.
The Henlow circuit is right above my workshop at Upper Stondon and if I see it this week, I’ll grab the bino’s off the hook by the door and see if I can grab a reg.
I can confirm though that the Collection’s Mew Gull flew for about twenty ninutes for the first time in captivity last Thursday, and was flown by Dodge Bailey.