Engine Punk

I've just been advised of this extremely positive review on BookPleasures for The Wormton Lamb. I am particularly pleased because I wasn't entirely sure if the Anarchadian Engine Punk thang would translate for American readers but it seems that in this country we've been led to expect the worst. Obviously, this particular reviewer is a highly intelligent woman of considerable taste. And before anyone asks, no i don't know her. In the UK we hear so many stories of British TV programmes being re-written and re-acted to suit the American sense of homour - hell the folks in the parish beyond the Scillies even spell it differently - but they are people like you and me. Some jokes they get and some they don't just like Europeans, Africans, Indians, Chinese, Japanese and Australians. So I am re-assured that it my stuff will appeal to the American market and could even go global. It's quite easy being a megalomaniac, y'know.

Cheer up! While I was in the queue for a cup of tea at the Bridgewater control on the Land's End Trial, I fell into conversation with the crew of one of the 1488cc Trojan Utilities and took the opportunity to ask them how much preparation they had done to their cars for trialling. There were two Trojan Utilities entered in the trial together one crewed by John Wilson and Richard Potter from Portchester and the other one by Steve and Phil Potter from Fareham (where, as the song goes, "all the whores wear Calico draws and I knows how to tear 'em.") I haven't tried this myself you understand. I have simply been assured of this quaint custom by friends of mine who live in those parts. Despite their benign weirdness, Trojans are very well proportioned cars. I particularly like the way the skinny wheels look widened. I'd seen them working on their Trojans at the start at Popham airfield and feared the worst but they were simply trying different carbure...