Bridget the Midget

The Canadian Classic MG Club held it’s annual awards night during December and honoured Bridget with the ‘Dirty Boot’! This was in recognition of the amazing amount of spare parts, cleaning materials, tool kits, axle stands and the all important trolley jack that emerged from Bridget’s boot before entering the slalom event in Vancouver during […]

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The news of Bridget’s retirement was somewhat premature and I can now confirm, with great pleasure, that she will be back in service next year.
There are some minor repairs required and a little adjustment to her make-up is needed, but then she is going to undertake a tour of the UK and Europe making personal […]

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Friday 16th October is a date that will stay with me for a long time. It marked the final day for this adventure as Bridget and I arrived at Kimber House in Abingdon. An apt destination, as the current headquarters of the MG Car Club, and a tribute to all the car club members around […]

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Always something! The container ship has had a problem with her propellors (can’t blame Lucas for this one) and had to go into dry dock to have things rectified. Subsequently the final 180 miles drive will be delayed until next week.
I have selected to finish at Abingdon and the MGCC has kindly agreed that we […]

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We had left Ottawa just after 9:00 am and found highway 20 east easily. The drive was uneventful except for the usual waving, horn tooting fans. We completed the near 200 miles in three hours arriving in time for lunch. Bridget was still running well.
 
It was immediately apparent to anyone that has travelled anywhere in […]

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I had a bad night’s sleep. For some reason my body has broken out in a serious rash of heat bumps. They cover my head, neck, arms and legs and they itch like mad. Having kept me awake most of the night I am not really in good condition for today’s drive.
 
We left at half […]

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Calgary, situated to the east of the Rocky Mountains, is home to some one million people. It is twinned with, amongst others, the city of Jaipur, or the Pink City as it is sometimes called (see diary entry – Royal Circles 04/09/2008).
 
We were to stay here for two and a half days and the Calgary […]

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From Kelowna we headed south on Highway 3B towards Rock Creek and Kettle Valley. The whole area is overshadowed by fir tree forested mountains. Occasional rivers and creeks are seen flowing mellifluously over gravel beds and rocks worn smooth by the flow.
 
I had decided to stop by one of these rivers, between Carmi and Rhone, […]

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We arrived in Canada just after lunch on the 21st August having replaced Bridget’s fuel pump. She was still misfiring at low revs and over 4,000 rpm, but otherwise was running OK. I still believed the carburettors were not balanced.
 
We had been invited to stay with Peter and Anne Tilbury from the Canadian Classic MG […]

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I chose to drive north from San Francisco on highway US101 rather than the quicker route I-5 after several people told me that the coastal road was really pretty. I left immediately after an early breakfast; the weather was sunny but the temperature only just over 70ºF. Being a Sunday the traffic was light.
 
A forty […]

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