I was out in the Mog today (as I am most days if it's not hosing it down...). The main thing is that I finally managed to give the old girl a good wash and buff up. It had got to the stage that she was so dusty that I was starting to worry that her photo would appear in a Classic car magazine in the "barn finds" section. JTL certainly wouldn't have approved !!!

Mind you, I had a lucky escape on Sunday night. We had such a deluge that the house was partially flooded. The rain was so heavy that the sewers under the main road were full, with the manhole covers lifting and a 15ft high geyser blowing up around them. With nowhere else to go the water took a detour down our alley, at the bottom of which is chez Pandy. We had 6 inches of water in the old stable, the garage had a couple of inches of water on the floor and the cellar was just starting to flood when the rain eased up and the water started to recede. Phew.

Giles. Mogless in Paris.