Martyn with a Y

A long time ago, The Stig, of Top Gear fame, used the entranceway at Memset (RIP) HQ at Dunsfold Park to shelter from the rain.

I started learning to drive not long after, and one day my instructor picked me up from Memset, and I drove back. On the way back, driving up to the Memset building, I passed a Bentley coming the other way, and the driver was none other than The Stig himself. He kept his helmet on at all times in public. That’s dedication.

The other photo is me in the audience at Top Gear. I left Memset to work for KPS, but I took a day off to see what all the fuss was about with Top Gear, since I’d never seen inside the studio despite working next door to them for several years.

The experience was interesting, even more so when you don’t drive (I gave up learning to drive after I failed my theory); there was a LOT of standing around and waiting. I got fed up and left after they took a break to set up a new scene/story (whatever you call it) in the studio.

“They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard..”

When I got married, we honeymooned in Bora Bora and New Zealand. Not bad for somebody who had just been made redundant before he got married. But on this day, exactly 25 years ago, we arrived at the Church of the Good Shepherd on the scenic shores of Lake Tekapo/Takapō, before heading into the Mount Cook area. Like the rest of New Zealand, it was exceptionally impressive.

Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
On a cold and frosty morning (or So early in the morning)

Yes, I’m back on WordPress. Mainly because I think I have the technology equivalent of Stockholm syndrome, but also because I have had some excellent ideas I want to try, especially since I’ve found a new host with a UK server that’s cheaper than Hetzner.

I’m still keeping Pika for another project, but the duck’s landed here for the foreseeable future.

Here’s a palate cleanser after a week of chaos. Let’s go back to when I was six years old, and home computing was really starting to take off…