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Adventures so far - a catch up blog

What with a house move, new car tinkering and heaps of Morris Minor adventures (three countries, in three different cars!), I’ve barely had time to write a blog lately. However, I realised we’re half way through the year and until I write my entry about our trip to France, here are some photos of the adventures we’ve been on. My top ten car highlights of this year so far (that I haven’t mentioned…

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The Yorkshire Run - January 2015

I talk about it an awful lot, but joining the Morris Minor Owners Club and more specifically, the Young Members register has had a massive impact on my life. I’ve been ever so fortunate to meet a gaggle of people roughly the same age as me and equally as obsessed with their rotten old bangers. These ‘people with shared interest’ have, over the years, become amazing friends who I’ve been lucky…

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Bee - an unexpected addition to the family

So as many of you will know, I’ve been saying for months I was going to buy a sensible 4 door ‘everyday runaround’ to free Nancy up for restoration. In my head it was either a Maxi or a Metro…something I could go a little faster in and actually get past the dizzying highs of 57mph on the motorway.

Somehow that plan was thwarted by a car called Bee…a 1960 4 door Morris Minor in a vague shade…

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We wish you a Morris Christmas

I’ve been on the Morris Minor scene for quite some time now (for somebody aged 27) and I’ve been lucky enough to make some really good friends within the club and within our register – MMOC Young Members.

Sometimes we like to like to waste our summers sitting in muddy fields surrounded by the same cars we’ve seen every year since God knows when, but then again sometimes we go on really cool…

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The tale of the Austin Metro

Just like you should never work with kids or animals, you should never let nostalgia rule your head on anything important. Especially if that ‘something important’ is buying a daily runner car (sorry Nancy, sorry Martha) to keep your cars salt free over winter.

Oh dear…

To justify another stupid British Leyland purchase, I talked Mum into the idea of having another Austin Metro; an idea she was…

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Instax...the future of instant photography?

Shot taken in natural light with Polaroid 600 using Impossible Project film

There was a whole lot of analogue when I was growing up; from cassette tapes to videos and right through to the 90s classic that everyone had: the Polaroid camera.

At the time when I was young, I didn’t fully appreciate the fun of the Polaroid, but hung to the camera regardless as it was a really lovely ‘thing’ to have.…

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