What have you done today with your Austin Seven

["Slack Alice" Simon]

That does look the part, Biddlecombe.


I don't often do shows, but I do like it when the kids get in, beep the horn, jiggle the wheel and so on.

If they look really interested I start it on the handle whilst they hold the choke out.


Today I have spent the whole day cleaning the Tourer.




I don't clean vehicles - my van (Mitsubishi) has an entire layer of lichen on the roof as a result, Alice has mud from last year's trial on top of the mud from the year before that.

But the Tourer is required to run someones daughter to her Prom tomorrow …..

So I started at 7 am. and finished at 7 pm. and now it still looks well used, but it is (quite) clean.


Then, of course, it wouldn't start to get put away.   Seemed like the fuel pump was sticking, so I filled the carb from a can, and off it goes.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow.