Burgundy 1

Sun.14.10.07. As far as I am concerned the project will be on hold for a week because of our visit to Burgundy. I have tidied the cellar cautiously made yet another list of ‘things to do when I return’. I have also, dropped off the camera for Chris, who does intend to press on with reviving the chassis preparing the groundwork for when the tub returns from Nigel Penk. The work, so far, on the chassis is superb; the central box section is gleaming with fresh paint as are the suspension turrets and rear leaf spring. It will be a real shame to cover all of this wonderfully detailed engineering with the body tub and wings.
We return on 22.10.07. which is the day that Gemma is supposed to give birth. Oh ‘eck.

Mon.15.10.07./ 22.10.07.  The Trip to Burgundy.
It has been a curiously eventful week. Sometimes frustrating, irritatingly annoying, often disappointing, painfully foolish, unendingly depressing: it has been one of the very few occasions I have desperately craved to be home. Over the next 5 days I shall attempt to outline the misfortunes of this extraordinary week. Nothing much about the car, but more an insight into human nature.

·      Mon.15.10.07. The plane was delayed at Liverpool for three hours. We eventually arrived in Geneva at 6.30pm which meant a drive of two hours through the stunningly rugged, yet blank, bleak countryside of Switzerland, towards eastern Bresse then finally on to ‘Dave Green’s house at Rimond. A few miserable sandwiches later after the wine had dried up, I hit the Scotch, the forbidden fruit, which guaranteed that I suffered for most of the following day.