Growing up, we were a no car household, not until I purchased my first car (a 1981 1.3 Austin Allegro, HLS mark 3). I don’t think my children appreciate having a family car and generally roll their eyes when I regale them with my ‘when I were a lad’ humble origin stories. Should they ever take an interest, I thought it would be nice to collate pictures of all the vehicles I’ve had the good fortune to own, where these images exist. My second car was a Ford Sierra, I purchased this from the father of a local friend, where she still has some grainy images of the car. Using the power of AI, I was able to get the images enhanced and the missing car digitally rear reconstructed. For some tasks like this AI is remarkable. For the growing gallery of my old cars, see My cars, past & present .

What’s the purpose of this site? In 1996, after a night of enjoying the courtesy of the University’s ‘Mandela’ bar and a day of classes where we were introduced to HTML, a bunch of us decided to check if the UK domains aligned to our surnames were available. With the magic of an old 486DX running Windows 95, on the University network, we quickly discovered only one was available, my own and I quickly registered it. So, for the cost of a heavily subsidised pint of beer, I registered my domain (this one) and promptly did nothing with it. For years, apart from sporadic updates, the site mostly collected digital dust while I dutifully paid the renewal fee. Now, I’m revamping the site to finally give my corner of the internet a little attention.