She was trying to say something as we left the town, “I can’t hear,” I said, “We lose the exhaust noise at seventy, hang on.” I put my foot down. I stared fixed at it for far too long, only the thumping of the wheels against a roadside drain that brought me back to reality and I stamped on the brakes to skid to a halt with the nearside front wheel locked up. xxxhindi “Only when I’m not ready,” Doris insisted. “I have some cash for an hotel room,” I explained. “Not till you get rid of that thing and have a wash,” Doris insisted, so I went to the bathroom for a wash. “Nearly raced at Le Mans in twenty nine,” I explained, “Bunty Brabbinger had her tootled up and couldn’t stop her pinking, then Argy Ardiles, Argentinian you
