Open invite to join in a trip to Europe including our place – 4th to 18th August 2012 Adrian & Sandra,  who have stayed with us twice now (and helped us out at the recent NEC bike show)  are planning another visit this coming August.  They would like to invite others to join them, particularly [...]

We start off this blog with the firm intention of updating every evening on how the day @motorcyclelive 2011 has gone for us. We really do mean to try! Of course we may find ourselves tempted from the righteous path by friends and colleagues insisting that we spend our evenings otherwise engaged in the noble [...]

Two weeks from today we will be putting the finishing touches to our new stand at Motorcycle Live. Right now we are surrounded by boxes of leaflets, carrier bags, handouts and bits of our stand.  We are struggling with lists of tasks – so much to do – just to give you an idea I’ve [...]

Our regular followers will remember that this time last year we were gloating a little because we had just heard that research done by @Iain_Harper for @HWdigital showed that our efforts at developing our Social Media platforms were certainly ahead of the game, at least as far as our fellow exhibitors @motorcyclelive were concerned. We [...]

She may be already back in the UK, but she left this little gem behind for your entertainment, dear reader! AND a promise of Chapter 10 to come yet! Ch. 9 – Destiny grants us our wishes, but in it’s own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes Sunday, as those who [...]

Chapter 8 – On This Loveliest Day of Days The title for this comes from “Shelter”, which is billed as the national anthem of the Federal Commonwealth of Sirocco, a New Zealand micronation.  No, I’d never heard of Sirocco either but doubtless there are people out there who have visited it.  The link, if you [...]

Chapter 7 –Tangled Up In Blue Title courtesy of Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue – You Tube.  If you cite your source, it’s not plagiarism.  Technology, despite my avowed Luddite default, does have it’s uses.  The song finishes: “we always did feel the same, just saw it from a different point of view”.  [...]

Chapter 6 –  Family And Other Animals With apologies to Gerald (Durrell for the uninitiated – google it, oh alright I know life is short, so you would find: When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and [...]

…………but in battalions.  Bit like buses really, wait ages for one and then lots come at once.  I have just posted chapters 3 and 4 of this year which due to a misunderstanding (mine, naturally) have just been sitting there like Patience on a monument waiting for something to happen to them (and a slight [...]

Not wishing to confuse, dear reader – but probably failing dismally already! – Jane has finally got round to starting to update her blog from June/July and to fill all you lucky people in with things you may never have realised you needed to know about! Anyhow she is working up to the present day, [...]