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Always From the Heart

Hi there and welcome to my shiny new blog site (if you’re reading this in 2025, it’s no longer shiny and new but, hey, at least it’s proving a success). As a car geek since the very beginning, the vast majority of my content will be concentrated on cars and motoring. However, expect some mental health musings and tips, too - a subject deeply personal to me. Hope you enjoy the ride and I’d love to hear your feedback.

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Fiat's Feast for the Eyes!

Even putting to one side the relentless charge towards electrification and the sheer proliferation of EVs currently saturating the...

Mental Health and the Winter Months

For as many years as I can remember, my mental health has taken a dive as the onset of autumn begins, and then transitions into the...

The Golf GTI's RS-Kicker

As the driver pins the throttle in second gear, the Fiesta RS Turbo’s mighty power is too much for the front wheels to cope with, the...

I've Got Piles - of Car Magazines!

You would scarcely know as much from looking at the picture, but beneath those piles of car magazines and general detritus is a dining...

Going Fast With a Little Help From Lotus

Image boosters didn’t prove much more successful than this one. Vauxhall, a British brand since its inception, was known for turning out...

My Ode to Evo Car of the Year

The end of a year is always a great time for reflections on the past twelve months. And as an incurable petrolhead, that invariably...

When Looks Are Deceiving

I fell for the Matra Rancho before I even knew its name. As a youngster playing with toy cars at a friend’s house after school, I...

The Worst Car Ever Made

What is the worst car ever produced? It’s a question that gets the grey matter going for motoring enthusiasts like myself, and, truth be...

The Nation's Favourite Classic

If you were to compile a list of the nation’s favourite classic cars, the MGB would most certainly feature in it. As with the likes of...

The Charms of Rustic 4x4s

The sight of a very rare (and very butch) Y60 Nissan Patrol the other day reminded me just how much the world of off-roaders has changed...

Identifying One's Positive Attributes

I am writing these words whilst completely sleep-deprived. I was out all night, you see, and it all turned into a lock-in down the local...

Ranting About Soap Operas

Looking back, I have wasted a disproportionate amount of my life watching television soap operas. This was only reaffirmed to me last...

The MGB - reborn!

I have long been fascinated by the MG RV8, and why not? A reimagined MGB for the 90s sporting a Land Rover V8 and tastefully beefed-up...

More Mental Health Musings

I’ve been struggling today. I think my Covid is getting me down, even though I don’t appear to be feeling any worse than when I initially...

Should I Quit Coffee?

I sometimes wonder if my mental health would be better than it is if I didn’t drink coffee. Then I realise I’m perhaps being hard on...

The Baby M-car Grows Up!

Earlier this month, BMW revealed all the details about its new M2 Coupe. Being a procrastinator of the highest order, I have only today...

Opening Up About My Mental Health

Living with chronic anxiety and OCD is tough. Like, really, properly, totally hard. Discovering this morning I have Covid isn’t doing...

Social Media Versus Reality

Social media is not real life. That sentence probably won’t come as a shock to any of you, but it is important for me to remember it...

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