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9/11. Where Were You the Day The World Changed?
Posted on September 11, 2020
The Twin Towers as the first plane struck, as seen from Brooklyn. Today is 9/11. 19th Anniversary of the day the world changed. Where were you that morning? Screen grab. It’s a beautiful, mild and sunny morning here. Just like it was that morning nineteen years ago. Nineteen years. Good …
Euro Journal ’21: 9 September
Posted on September 8, 2020
From my desk morning of. 6 September 2018. Wednesday, 9 September 2020: It’s early door here. 5.44 in the morning. I like to be up before the day begins with a cuppa freshly brewed coffee writing. My thoughts are without distraction. I can both see forward and look back with …
Euro Journal ’21: Euro Gold ’07 & Swedish Rikard
Posted on September 7, 2020
Sunday, 7 September 2020: Euro Gold. Euro Militaire 2007. I was looking through previous Euro Journals in my archives and realised I hadn’t mentioned the original motivation for Euro in the first place. Euro Gold. There was a time when the idea of a gold pin at Euro dominated my …
Euro Journal ’21: 5 September 2020
Posted on September 5, 2020
Saturday, 5 September: Up before the dawn with a hot cuppa coffee, opened my MacBook and on Facebook I’m shown a memory on this day from 2018. Day of. 7 hours to kick off. All this past summer I remained hopeful, as I’m sure others have as well, that by …
Euro Journal ’21: 3 September 2020
Posted on September 5, 2020
Euro Journal Thursday, 3 September: Here we are again. Euro Journal 2021. I’ve been here before. Many times in fact. I kept a basic itinerary that became a complete online journal including all my lead up travels, flights, hotel reservations and photos of London, the trip down to Folkestone and …
Jaguar XJS. Story.
Posted on July 30, 2020
I’ve been meaning to blog about my adoration of the XJS for ages. Previously, I blogged about the 1986 Alfa Romeo GTV6 and the 1989 Mercedes R107 560sl. Both of which I own. And equally adore. Before I owned either one of them I owned Jaguars. And really—for me—there is …