Once PR for several of the world’s best car companies. Now playing with and podcasting about toy cars : linktr.ee/talkingutterslot?u…
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Great Le Mans race but coverage on official FIA stream being spoiled by frequent and pointless PR/marketing puff pieces being inserted. Stop it @FIAWEC_Live Let us hear @MartinHaven @dsceditor and Ant Davidson uninterrupted.
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Apr 29
A satisfying thing about life now is having time to get lost in an old book. This is one of my first, bought new for £9.95 in 1983 - quite an investment for a student.
Many years later I met both Turner and Roebuck through work.
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Apr 22
Another fun evening of slot rallying at Worthing club. My three cars were quick and stable but I wasn’t fast enough. The cows remained unmoved by it all.
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Apr 22
Fine day for a drive to the diner. I wasn’t the only one who thought so.
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Mar 23
Not least because I was on it. I was interviewed by Zig and Zag (two sock puppets operated by a couple of Irish chaps). No known video exists so you’ll have to take my word for it that my ad lib was good enough to make the socks break character and laugh.
Once upon a time, breakfast television was worth watching…
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Mar 14
Brian showed an alarming degree of interest in this Moggie which had an optimistic for sale sign in the rear window.
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On World Book Day I’m reading a motor racing memoir giving a behind the scenes view of one of the most romanticised eras.
It is well written, but the real joy is the candid photos which bring the races and drivers to life, melting away the half century between then and now.
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Quiet afternoon in the warmth of the sitootery with a good book.
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Feb 27
MoT day for the MR2. It passed. So did the Carrera GT and LFA which were being done after it.
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Feb 16
It’s a cycle of cause and effect: buy one old Le Mans slot car, read books about the real thing, buy more old Le Mans slot cars. Recent acquisitions of the Audi variety.
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Feb 15
Sat in the pub, can’t help overhearing a chap at the next table with his inside line on the ‘indescribable’ Hilux episodes on Top Gear. He’s talking utter bollocks but I’m resisting the temptation of introducing myself.
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Rainy afternoon so another ‘old’ Le Mans book liberated from its shrink wrap for the first time.
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Took the shrink wrap off this 25 year old book today. Love the picture of @allanmcnish shielding his eyes with his hand while racing.
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AI which turns old posts into magazine cover stories is my new favourite toy.
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31 Dec 2025
Talk about taking the piss. Thought we’d bought a nice box of chocolate digestives, but when I opened it… The spacing is only part of it, the tray is only half depth. Big box, just 21 biscuits. Bad form, @McVities
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31 Dec 2025
I’m not a fan of the black Gazoo Racing livery, but these two look great on my track. Yaris WRC by @SCALEXTRIC_OFIC and the GR010 by @Slotit
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