Watching TV instead of wearing Wellingtons
09/12/2025
It wasn't quite as planned, but this year Goodwood and the Revival won't be happening. Things are different to what I originally thought, plans don't work out and anyway, sometimes circumstances just don't seem as they should be. I'm not going to Goodwood this weekend to be part of Duke of Richmond's great track party - don't worry we already have two competent correspondents over there, there will be something about it here.
However, I am now looking for enough excuses to talk myself out of the disappointment. One argument, for example, is the weather, which isn't supposed to be so rosy, another is the fact that I can just as easily follow the most exciting duels in the livestream, accompanied by coffee (Kafi) of my own making and with the option of pressing the pause button. Yes, that's right, I haven't been able to find my wellies (the Wellington boots) in my collection either... The tweed suit, however, was hanging ready, freshly aired. Now then.
Lister Knobbly and Austin J40 pedal car of a family team at Goodwood
Yes, arguments: Then there's also my workshop, which is crying out to be tidied up, loudly. And the tinkering corner, the small workshop so to speak, in our basement. It could do with a round of hoovering again. There's also a newly acquired, antique "Capitole" lying around. A model locomotive of the prototype from France that set a speed record in 1953. I'm not trying to repeat this in 1/87th scale, but the good piece from Göppingen needs some adjustment work on the forward and reverse switch. Three-wire model railroaders know what I'm talking about. And cars? Mhhh, maybe I'll go and watch Goodwood at Motorworld in Kemptthal near Zurich. It's on a big screen and with the appropriate British accompaniment - afternoon tea, whisky or the authentic pie and pint as in the background?
Tweed including cap (and black armband due to the Queen's death in September 2022) - the weather was great, the Wellington boots - Wellys - not necessary
I'd have to do some research on that. However, I'm annoyed that I didn't go all the way there, to Charles Henry Gordon Lennox's estate near Chichester. So I'll watch the stream from home after all! Or I'll hide under the comforter for the whole weekend and not even think about the fact that I could have been there again in 2025...
