Sometime in the 1970s, a design engineer had the idea of putting a computer in a car. At that instant, an entire breed was sentenced to death and we can expect Man Who Mends Cars to be virtually extinct in the western world by about 2015AD. Then, there will remain only a few isolated individuals within whom will reside the last shreds of knowledge about how to repair cars rather than psychoanalyse them and reconstitute them with plug-in components. By then, except in Famagusta and at Classic Car rallies, you will never see a Ford Cortina nor any kind of … Continue reading Man who mends cars.

  I did a book. It took some time. I did not write it myself, in fact I wrote none of the golden words therein. They are all hand crafted by writer Gordon Thorburn http://www.gordonthorburn.co.uk I had a hand in the idea, and I did all the drawings. I’m going to let you take a look at it from these pages over the next few weeks and,like a lot of drawings , they sometimes work better with words. In this particular case they look lost without them. Mr Thorburn is responsible for a lot of words over the years, including … Continue reading Some missing persons…

We live in a town which is blessed by many trees, many large trees with lots of leaves. They are starting to drop and collect in the road. The local council will be clearing these leaves and have recently started to do so, first with the advance ‘guard’ of leaf blower man.Fully kitted out with what appears to be and sounds like a small motorbike on his back, he advances down the road blowing the leaves from his manufactured wind, into the road. Off the pavement and into the road. This is so that he can be followed by leaf … Continue reading Leaf blower man returns…