This section covers all the Ws: who, where, why, what, when, and, erm, how. 
A daily record of the plans made and the decisions taken. 
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These days, when you come, the beautiful sun...I get a flush of excitement thinking about our trip next year and start planning a...

Now that we are officially participants in the 2026 Black Forest Gateau Bust Rallies event, I have a renewed vigour for the whole daft...

It is official, we are officially registered for the Monte Carlo or Bust Rally: Black Forest Gateau 2026!!! It has been a long time...

When football meets motorsport. Ebbsfleet United have unveiled their 2025/26 away kit, marking a nostalgic reunion with their historic...

What better way to spend an afternoon on a rally across Europe than at an, erm, football match?! As part of the route we visit Menaggio...

I almost found the perfect support vehicle for our epic jaunt across Europe next year. I stumbled across this cracking-looking...

The little car has been taken to the garage to receive a bit of TLC from the professionals. The metallic rubbing noise has been...

After initially thinking my new alloy woes were far behind me, a new and annoying issue turned up. I was merrily bombing it around in...

The lovely guys at Liverpool Mobile Tyres have just been out to balance my front wheels. As they had the Abarth jacked up, they said...

People who have followed this little blog for a while will know that Lisa got me a set of upgraded alloy wheels for Christmas this year...

With a heavy heart, I must announce that our jaunt across Europe has been put on hold until next year. There are many reasons, but...

I'm worried that Abbie will develop multiple personality disorders during our upcoming European road trip, as she must respond to six...

A friend paid me back a few quid he owed me that I had completely forgotten about, so I did the only sensible thing I could: I bought something I could use for our trip. The snappily titled Ryobi Cordless Impact Driver Starter Kit is currently winging its way to me at the speed of DPD. After some research, I found that at 1,800 inch-pound torque, it won't win any arm-wrestling contests against its more expensive contemporaries, but it has enough muscle to handle what most DI

All this talk of jacks and tyre swapping has reminded me that the foam that comes with my car is well past its sell-by date, so I needed...

In my relentless pursuit of “wasting money or crap I don’t need” (© Lisa 2025), I’ve been looking at car jacks. I’m not sure my car...

I may have stumbled across our next road trip. Hot on the heels of our plan to race across Britain to prove the Abarths are quicker than...

Remember I was saying that I might need to cut AI some slack after Leonardo, the image-creating website, took my prompt, embellished it,...

I'm still struggling to come up with content for this little corner of the Internet because of stuff happening in the real world, but as...

I write these stupid little posts when the muse takes me. So often, I knock out four, five, or six articles in one session and then sit...

There is no suggestion that we will speed up when completing the rally. Still, it is better to be prepared, so I researched how much the...