Well hellooooo der!

Good day Minnions, how are we all these days? I was just clearing up some rubbish in my archived favourites folder and stumbled upon my old MX5 stomping ground, so thought I'd stop by and say a quick hello.

Here's hoping everyone is well and tickety boo. I still keep in touch with a few from here via FB but for everyone else, a quick update on my world at the moment. ...... The Frogeye Sprite went off to pastures new last Sept, for a number of reasons but mainly because it wasn't getting used all that much due to me not being able get out of it once I was in - getting in was ok as I was assisted by gravity - which is a wonderful invention for folk of "a certain age" - but getting out again was an entirely different matter where it became, "who invented this daft thing". It was a tight fit even for an 'ickle fella like me. Also we couldn't get Rocky in it when we went off over the back lanes on our coffee 'n cake runs so we were tending to use the MG more for that - yes, still got it and still love it. So, Froggy went back to the chap I bought it from. I promised I'd give him first refusal if ever I sold it, so popped off an e.mail, we agreed a price within 20 minutes and he was here 3 days later to pick it up - easy peasy! The replacement is a restored 1979 Mini which like the Frog is structurally solid and it has no underseal to hide the ubiquitous multitude of sins, it's the same colour underneath as it on top and just as shiny . It's far from standard, as you'd expect from one of my cars. but it's been reasonably well put together - there has been a lot of work done on it over winter, mostly making it "mine". It houses a Metro A plus 1300 engine and complete Cooper S brakes with a servo so it goes and stops quite well - nowhere near the same level of tune as the Frog was but it's not too shabby and it stops a lot better than that did.

Rocky is still with us - those who remember Jo will recall she died on Xmas eve 2019 and we rehomed Rocky at 9 months old at the end of January 2020. We've had "The Rockster" for 3 years now and he's turned into a lovely placid lad, he walks to heel brilliantly off his lead and his recall is now 100% - and he's great with the grandkids, they love him. He's still very cautious of new people, especially men, but once he gets to know them he's fine. He's living his best life

That's pretty much up to date for me so I'll leave you with a pic of Minnie ..........