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@MikeCowgill @AlsoDriven @Gumtree Going to take a break from the home making. Basics are done but just need to get back to car nonsense with @sionhudson There is a long winter next year to do all the decorating

@thealso @AlsoDriven @Gumtree Sweet! Sounds like the new place is coming together nicely.

Our fridge died so jumped on the web looking a decent second hand one and pulled the @AlsoDriven Volvo estate out and this just fitted in the back and no more So thanks to @Gumtree and good Swedish design my chicken drumsticks will survive

@MikeCowgill @AlsoDriven @Gumtree 300 but it's only a few months old They are moving and it didn't fit in their new place so it's now residing in Casa Del Magill

@thealso @AlsoDriven @Gumtree Blimey, that looks swish. Hurrah for Volvo estates!

@PirateArchitect They are interesting folk and have a huge amount of passion for cars of all sorts which is why I like them as a club

@thealso I had a brilliant chat with a member of the gccg on a flight to GC the other week, we managed to chew each others ears off for 4 hours about cars and motorhomes, it made the flight fly by so to speak

That was a weekend!

@PMalseed Rust.... It's always rust

@thealso Not on the engine I trust. They are pretty much indestructible.

@randomessays @AlsoDriven @sionhudson That's what I say!

New Video for the NEC Restoration Show youtu.be/UHhMYcsqlqo

@PMalseed Ours will need a lot of work

@thealso Ah! my favourite little French car. The Renault Twingo. Owned one for a few years back in the day. Would have another one in a heartbeat.

New video out over on @AlsoDriven for the NEC Restoration Show

@randomessays Very sick

@Rainbow_Uapa @sheilatebra @CanaryGabriel Awww... 😢

@sheilatebra @CanaryGabriel So lovely. I work at a cafe, almost leaving for a new adventure, but I think of that one elderly regular customer I didn't see for months. He's not in our loyalty scheme and I can only hope he's alright.

Anonymous I run a small bakery. Woman came in every Friday morning. Same order. Two blueberry muffins. One coffee. Always sat at the corner table. Read her book. Stayed an hour. Did this for three years. Then she stopped coming. After two months I got worried. Found her number in our loyalty program. Called. She answered. Voice weak. “Oh. Hi. I’ve been meaning to cancel that.” “Are you okay? You haven’t been in.” Long pause. “I have cancer. Stage four. I’m in hospice now. Those Friday mornings were my favorite part of the week. But I can’t make it anymore.” My heart broke. “What if I brought Friday to you?” Silence. Then crying. “You’d do that?” “Every Friday. Same time. Same order.” Showed up that Friday. She was in a hospital bed in her living room. So thin. But she smiled when she saw those muffins. We sat. She told me about her week. Her family. Her life. I listened. Just like at the bakery. Did this for six weeks. Every Friday. Last Friday she could barely stay awake. But she held that muffin. Took one bite. “Best thing I’ve tasted all week.” She passed on Monday. Her daughter called. “Mom’s last words were about you. She said ‘tell the baker thank you. Fridays kept me human until the end.’” Went to her funeral. Her daughter hugged me. “You gave her normal when everything else was hospitals and pain. You gave her Fridays.” Now I deliver to three hospice patients. Every Friday. Because sometimes a muffin isn’t just a muffin. It’s dignity. It’s routine. It’s proof that someone still sees you as you. Not as sick. Just as you.

@BulldogBDX @NECRestoShow Yeah we are on the @GCCG

@thealso See you at the weekend ?? 😎 @NECRestoShow

@jikozi Same size as a 126 In fact they are 126 tyres on that car

@thealso Those wheels look so tiny!

Temu A Class

It's tis indeed

@GhostOfFrederic @thespafixer True Even to this day

@thealso @thespafixer FIAT rarely made new hardware for the fun of it.

There was a 4x4 Tempra @thealso ?

@GhostOfFrederic @thespafixer But mechanically they did

@thealso @thespafixer Delta Integrale genes...?

@GhostOfFrederic @thespafixer No... It was more Strada based