My son tells me he is only the 5th person in history to drive 'Spider', a 1930's racing car. He was racing his Frazer Nash at the weekend and the Chairman of the Club was invited to try Spider out but couldn't get it to start so asked my son to try. In a 'glossy' car magazine last month it said he drives as if 'his pants are on fire'. Must have done the trick as he had it to 120 mph on the straight. It doesn't actually have any brakes, just a hand brake outside the body. He is also over 6' tall and Spider is very thin, so much so that the body flexed as he squashed into it!
On the harp front - very exciting news today. A Luthier has started work on the stables so that harp production can move into there. The first job was the roof and to keep any rain out overnight we covered it with an old 'bill board' canvas advertising some Merlin/Wizard film with a 10' wide owl looking up at the sky.
To write this I had to clamber over a 4' pile of washing and boxes and boxes of very important bits and pieces from, what used to be my pantry, until the ceiling fell in! Plastering is under way and today the washing machine was fixed. A manufacturer's fault apparantly. They don't fix the electronic panel behind the buttons so every time you press a button it pushes the panel further away. Eventually nothing registers.
Tomorrow night at East Morton Institute - 7 pm - with Eddie Lawler, the Bard of Saltaire
tel 01274 564653 or email rhtassell08@live.co.uk or just turn up! (opposite the Busfield Arms)
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