Thursday 25 November 2010

Monday 1 November 2010

Collie Kato

I'm at me mum's, with her 3 month old collie Charlie and her old mog Mac.
This is what life is like here:

Thursday 28 October 2010

For the VL Stunt Team...

Happy birthday pardner!!

Sunday 24 October 2010

People who look like their cars

Went to Sainsbury's today and saw this



... and then along came its owner

Saturday 23 October 2010

Friday 22 October 2010

Aerodynamics

Scientific tests to judge Dales racer slipstream in progress at the Wharfdale top secret facility.

(This image has only just been released from the Official Secrets Act, hence the delay in posting)

Thursday 18 February 2010

Superstition

Why is it that some people believe a black cat crossing your path is lucky, and others believe it's unlucky? Must be confusing for the cat.

Quid

Once upon a time I was walking down Charing Cross Road, and I saw this in front of me...

I realised it was an elderly man trying to pick something up, so I went up to him to help...

... and I discovered it was Roy Hattersley finding a pound coin.

Sunday 14 February 2010

Milo Venus - a special Valentines number

 
Milo Venus was a beautiful lass,
she had the world in the palm of her hand.
She lost both her arms in a wrestlin' match
to meet a brown eyed handsome man.
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.

Chuck Berry



Thursday 11 February 2010

Snow joke

roll on Spring...

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Monday 8 February 2010

Patrick Moore...

... and his telescopic trousers

Sunday 7 February 2010

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Tornado Smith

 

Hack vs Dick

The subtle difference between detective (left) and journalist (right)

Tuesday 2 February 2010

The King of the Shed Builders

I first heard about Richard Trevithick when I was at school, and I fell for him there and then. A gentle giant, he was an all round smart bloke... he didn't do well at school but he had a brilliant, creative, problem-solving mind and wasn't scared of getting his hands dirty. He apparently had a great sense of humour, was a brilliant story teller, and he lived round the corner from my ancestors in the little parish of Probus, Cornwall. He invented the first self-propelled passenger carrying vehicle in 1803, made massive advances in pumping engines for the mines, and went on to invent the steam locomotive. Like many creative people, he wasn't much of a self-publicist and he never made anything from his pioneering inventions... in fact towards the end of his life he was stranded, ill and penniless, in Peru where he had been working on engines for the silver mines. Who should he bump into but Robert Stephenson, who'd made his name and a fortune developing the locomotive. Bob gave him 50 quid for his passage home...

Happiness is...

...racin' around with a Scout on me tail

Sunday 31 January 2010

Big Leggy?

 
He couldn't catch a pig in a ginnel

The Yorkshire Tea plantation

Polaroid taken by an East Lancs special agent

Saturday 30 January 2010

Dirty Bob...

... loves mechanical beauty from the thirties

I-Spy Mouldings

Friday 29 January 2010

Carmen Miranda

Can't beat a fruit hat.

Roadside Repairs

Lookin' forward to this year's adventures with string...