I walked into the lobby lift as the door was already opmer. As I was about to push my floor button the lady from reception ran across and called out "Stop You plungered to your dead." Well in the last six days I had slept in 5 different countries and the other night in no man's land in the North Sea but the word DEAD needs no translation so I stepped out back into the lobby. It seems that with one set of lifts already out they were using the second set but the...

Who will buy my sweet red roses two blooms for a penny? Cut Cut Nancy that was 1968 when you did Lionel Bart's adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, this is 2018 and your now 85 and actually Shani Wallis. I thought that as Padgetts was founded in 1958, the same year Mark Lester who starred next to you as Oliver was born it would be drawing a fair old twang of the string to get you to help them out. The new lyrics should be "who will buy my swee...

With the Docks at Liverpool given Royal assent so now known as The Royal Albert Dock a visit was in order. However before visiting I had to travel from Douglas on the Isle of Man by the Australian built Cat Ferry. Arriving with plenty of time to spare before departure a large number of motorcycles had already gathered but one window had only two bikes lined up so that was the gate choosen. Processed almost in the blink of the eye I was directed to an almost va...

Peter Hickman now officially the fastest motorcycle racer in the world following his record breaking lap of 135.492mph in the IOM Senior TT on the last day of racing in 2018. For me the day began slowly following a very late night writing these blogs until 3am but knowing it was the final day of racing I arose and readied myself to visit Quarter bridge to watch todays two races. The first race proved again the dominance of the Birchell brothers as they won toda...

Day 5 another glorious day weatherwise and with no racing it was time to meet and greet my hosts the people of the people who live and called IOM home. I thought the best way was to challenge them to answer some probing questions. The first question being "Does God have a place in 2018 on IOM?" The second being "What effect do you think Brexit will have on IOM?" Armed with these questions I set about a ride to cover from Sound the Southern most point of IOM ...