Engine Punk

Tomorrow I am hosting Billie A. Williams, the US thriller writer, on this very blog. Billie lives in Amberg, Wisconsin but she's currently on a virtual book tour and you can follow her progress on her blog . Billie is offering a number of prizes to those who leave comments on the blogs where she's interviewed. She's a successful thriller writer and has quite a following in the states. It's just as well that it's a virtual book tour because I've got a horrible cold this week. If it was a real one, I think it would be a wasted journey. This way, I can still interview her despite my coughing and spluttering.

There's a plate on it but it's not much of a clue It was some of my neighbours who coined the term Vintage Thing and this is the, er, Vintage Thing that prompted that remark. They were having a garage clear out and this emerged, metaphorically blinking in the sunlight. There's a tightening ratchet on the shaft on the right that pulls a shaped block up against two feet It's a special tool of some sort made by Churchill, serial number 18G227C. Nobody knows what it fits but somebody somewhere is probably, at this very moment, crying out for this Vintage Thing. To throw it away would seem to be a crime so I took pity on it and it has now come to live with me at the Cornish Repository for Unwanted Vintage Things until it can be re-homed.