An outstanding failure for the Candidi Provocatores
The sun begins to set on the Allard's new wiper motor After the pleasant excess of Christmas and New Year, I was in the mood for adventure again in early January. Fortunately, for me this coincides with the Exeter Trial. Team Robert, also known as the Candidi Provocatores - or me and my mate Binky (Mr Robert Robinson-Collins to you) - had an entry in the 2015 Exeter Trial and, unlike last year , the weather did not interfere with me getting up to Popham Airfield which is our chosen point of starting. It had been raining hard and there was a lot of standing water visible in the fields as I travelled up by train. Regular readers may recall that last year lightning strikes struck the signalling in Cornwall and Devon, which meant that I had to drive to Honiton. That was the most westerly point from which trains were operating but this year the weather was relatively benign Binky had been busy on the Allard since we cleaned all the hills on the last Land's...