EAGLETON NOTES

Apart from my times in New Zealand when I posted on my other blog this is, I'm pretty sure, the longest period between posts since i st...

for 12 years and 100,000 miles. Okay it's not quite as poetic as saying for 'for 40 years' but when one is talking about a car ...

That Was The Week That Was. Remember  that programme  from half a century ago? Of course you don't. Well not if you're younger than...

Those of you who also read the blog of my brother CJ, John, Scriptor Senex will have a reasonable idea of what has been happening in Eagle...

Rabbie (Robert/Robbie) Burns knew what he was talking about when he penned To a Mouse: But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving f...

Boredom warning.  This is one of my 'diary' posts.  If you don't speed read then I suggest that you skip the next three paragra...

It's been quite a day:  350 miles or thereabouts of mostly hellish driving in pouring rain and, when we were on the motorway, crawling ...

I am ensconsed in my bedroom at the Woodbury Park Hotel near Exeter having traveled the 240 miles down from the Pennine foothills via the M6...

The Specialist took one look at The Nighthawk and said that he'd come across this complaint before and that it was a problem that could ...

The trusty steed isn't happy.  The Nighthawk's in Casualty/ER/A&E waiting for a diagnosis.  It's like so many things that ha...

In a recent post Thank You, Firestone Pauline mentioned the number of punctures that she has travelling on metaled (gravel) roads in New Ze...

The ferry bringing David was coming in.  The Nighthawk was making her way towards the ferry terminal to meet him.  Fuel was fairly low and t...

I have never been particularly emotionally attached to any of my cars. That's not to say that I haven't liked them or enjoyed them o...

Having driven about 3000 km since I left home I was a litle alarmed when going round a corner a few days ago to hear a graunching noise appa...