The story should begin with a rather pointed question to one of my oldest and dearest friends on November 22nd 2017 (the day before my 36th birthday). However, if I am to write a frank blog post, the story begins almost two decades earlier on Sunday 22nd November 1998. The day before I turned 17, […]
Clarkson Parking
Car proud. Is that a thing? It must be, because house proud is a thing! Back in late July 2013, a few days after starting at my new (and I would like to add happily current) employer somebody scratched my car door. This was not a minor misdemeanour. They had scrapped paintwork clear off my […]
2016A
In an alternative timeline, Bernie Saunders would be President Elect, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland would be remaining part of the EU; Arsenal would have tipped Leicester to claim their 4th Premier League title in May. We can always look at things and wonder what could have been. I do this […]
I Need Fuel!
We all like taking risks to a certain degree. While I consider myself relatively risk-averse, I occasional can roll the dice. Now before I continue, I probably have to confess this is purely down to prehistoric masculinity. For as long as I have been able to drive, I have found the need to refuel a […]
King Of The Road
For many years I was a devout fan of the trusted TomTom. Just remember this was in the late 1990s when SatNav was a completely new product range and smartphones did not truly exist in their current form. When I went over to Germany for our lads weekend to the Nurburgring, we spent a good […]
Fast & Furious
On the first day of my holidays, we were driving down the Bath Road and I spotted a bright white Seat Ibiza ahead of us with an interesting badge. I very much doubt this vehicle was packing a Nitrous Oxide system but then again, this is Slough. Anything is possible!
American Muscle
Spotted this brand new Dodge Challenger parked up in Nicholsons Shopping Centre, Maidenhead this afternoon and just had to take a few photographs, just before the owner turned up to drive home. I believe he had just visited the David Lloyd gym. Now as much as I would love to own a beast of a […]
Roadworks On The Doorstep
Nobody likes roadworks. Yet, they are an everyday nuisance of modern life. Living next to the First Great Western mainline route between Paddington and the West has meant we are inflicted upon by the noise of trains going by on a regular basis from 6am until midnight. Just like the planes overhead flying out and […]
Momentous Milestones
This was not how I had intended to end my weekend, driving back from Nottingham to Slough. My car broke down, just off the M69 as we were approaching the A46 outside Coventry. A call to Green Flag and a forty minute wait later, we were towed over to the nearby Tesco supermarket. It was […]