Wonder if the hearse will get a trip around the Lingotto track.
Well worth a visit if you ever goto Turin. or was 20 or years ago when we went.
If it’s a Fiat,
Brigitte Bardot …
Yes indeed, was about to report in. Always felt I held a weird connection with Bridget, as my first (and ex) wife looked just like her, which was with hindsight probably why I married her when I was only 23. This had never been a wise move (we lasted 2 years), but not her fault looking like Bridget Bardot.
Fascist with a pout and snout as my wife described her
Yeah was a smidge racist but with those lips could suck a golf ball through 10 meters of hosepipe.
This one is overdue.
Jim Moylan, Ford Motor Company engineer, passed December 11 2025, aged 80.
Why is he important?
Jim ‘invented’ the fuel gauge arrow now found on all vehicles, showing which side of the vehicle has the fuel filler cap.
For the trivia folks, that arrow is known as the ‘Moylan Arrow’.
Yeah that’s the one I married 
He was a lovely musician and I adore ‘Much Les’ as an album, but he died 2024 didn’t he?
Yeah, I should probably put my glasses on
So Phil Lynott 40 years ago tomorrow.
I absolutely idolised him and I clearly remember picking up a freesheet at South Ken tube and not really being able to get my head around what I was reading.
Interesting aside: My late uncle (not a blood relative, but a very close family friend) managed a cinema in Birmingham for many years after being demobbed.
He reckoned the cinema played host to most of the notable bands over the years, but always insisted that Thin Lizzy were the best he ever saw.
EDIT: Before he died, said uncle left me a mountain of cinema promo posters and 10x8 stills. My brother got the flying helmet he wore as a glider pilot during the Arnhem landings. He was a lovely bloke.
An old flat mate of mine’s parents went on holiday with a group every year to the Canary Isles.
Part of the group was Lesley Crowther and his wife.
Their daughter was married to Phil Lynot.
Lovely Chap - I bussed to Oxford to buy shades of a blue Orphanage 1972. Saw the band seven times in the early days. Even shared a joint with the band backstage n Manchester after hitching to the gig from Wantage.
Interesting read
So, farewell then, Molly Parkin: inspirational debauchee, 93.
Under-the-counter writer, sometime painter, legendary underpanter.
I had no idea you were still alive, much less how…
The 1970s were [also] a helluva drug…
Requiescat in Pace
Elastoplast doctoring ?