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Founder and editor of Absolute Lotus magazine. Freelancer in some other places. What’s a tweet called here?

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That’d be neat!

11.12.2025 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When I built my Sylva Riot I put the indicator switch in the right because that’s where it should be on a right-hand-drive car.

11.12.2025 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Introduce yourself with five cars you’ve owned.

MCC Smart
Lotus Elise 111R
Lotus Europa Twin-Cam
Sylva Riot SE
Toyota MR2 Roadster

29.11.2025 09:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

It’s quite hard not I ignore but I have ways.

23.11.2025 20:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Too early to be thinking about Christmas really but I like the baubles in Lakeside.

23.11.2025 20:35 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Exactly.

22.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really good, wasn’t it? I was surprised it was a recent conversion, I’d have assumed it had been done in period.

08.11.2025 20:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A selection of oddments from today.

08.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s OK, there’s a billboard on Hesketh Street.

26.10.2025 21:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nah. You need a manual as your first car. I spent the night before picking mine up learning to heel and toe in the Ka while I still had three pedals.

14.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There was one of those driving around Parking Bleu once. Not sure if that was a year you were there, so you might already know that.

10.10.2025 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I can’t believe how many things are now in a new place. Thanks for all the help!

08.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That is a great cover, btw.

26.09.2025 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Slow down! I haven’t bought Issue 2 yet. Local TGJ (RIP WHS) didn’t have it, yet they had the first one.

26.09.2025 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Do house spiders released outside survive, or navigate back? The fate of spiders caught in the home and released some distance away depends on the species - and the temperature

House spiders do not survive outside. www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg2...

10.09.2025 18:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Yes.

05.09.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Like an elephant in Kenya.

27.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yep!

23.08.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is more my cup of tea. For one thing, I’m not being small talked at by a stranger who’s drinking a giant can of Relentless while burping.

23.08.2025 12:37 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I did. I fitted in perfectly.

23.08.2025 12:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I’ve been on a train and now I’m on a bus. You couldn’t make this up.

23.08.2025 09:31 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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The trusty Mondeo being support vehicle for a very different red K-reg car.

20.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Either Snowdonia at sunset in my first Elise. I was on my way home from a week in Ireland and the car’s next owner was coming to collect it the next day.

Or two days pounding around Zolder in my Sylva Riot. Fuel and track time paid for by VAB in return for giving passenger laps.

05.08.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I haven’t met one but I read about one only yesterday.

03.08.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s what I thought! There’s an argument that it took a Cooper to catch a Cooper…

01.08.2025 12:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That must be it. I wrote a letter to Car magazine ridiculing them, and someone replied in the following issue saying it was akin to the police using y Mini Coopers in the ‘60s.

31.07.2025 21:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’d forgotten those! Used to see them patrolling in Dover. Not sure what they were used for.

31.07.2025 21:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks!

26.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BLOL

26.07.2025 15:55 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

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