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Hot wiring coil direct on a 1950s Standard Pennant to start after languishing for over a decade in a garage.

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“For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.”

— Simon Van Booy

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Troopers from the Blues and Royals celebrating after the Royal Wedding 

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From the source:

“Radioman Francis Comer waiting for a chopper, 2d plt, Mike Co, 3d Battalion, 9th Marines, 1968.”

From the Robert L. Drieslein Collection (COLL/5643) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division

OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH

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1979 Loading Chieftain MBT’s ‘A’ Sqn The Blues & Royals.

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Monica Vitti, “L'avventura” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960).

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I'm longing for days like this as it flecks with snow outside.

Breakfast Time Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, 1887 Nationalmuseum - Stockholm

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Jose Froilan Gonzalez

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Go Mike go!

Mike Hawthorn 

Ferrari 250 TR 001

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Honesty

You might be aware that a horse cantering & jumping event is taking place in the town of Cheltenham near where I live. Yesterday a friend noticed a racegoer had dropped a large sum of money. My friend picked it up and returned the cash. The astonished punter couldn't stop saying thank-you enough then peeled a couple of crisp ones off and insisted my friend get themselves a treat for their honesty. My friend said there was no way they could have kept the money but it was also nice to get properly thanked and a small reward.

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Grab that "me" time once in a while.

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The Shipping Forecast

Viking, Forties, Dogger, Fisher, Sole and Bailey are named after sandbanks. Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Humber, Thames and Shannon are named after estuaries. Wight, Lundy, Fair Isle, Faeroes, Portland, Hebrides, South-East Iceland and Utsire are named after islands. The German Bight is an indentation on the Northern European shoreline. Dover and Plymouth are named after towns. Rockall and Fastnet are both named after islets. Malin is named after Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland. Biscay is named after the Bay of Biscay, and Trafalgar after Cape Trafalgar. FitzRoy is named after Robert FitzRoy, the first professional weatherman, captain of HMS Beagle and founder of the Met Office.