The tragedy of the Woods Scawen boys. A story of two Battle of Britain aces, combat, love, heartbreak and death. One day this will be a movie.

Shops in Moffatt.

Eight and a bit hour drive back from Scotland. Don't usually do it on a Saturday so it may just be coincidence, but more crashes and bad driving once you get south of Preston.

You don’t get this kind of action in F1.

By setting up a telescope in exactly the right point on Earth and using an extremely fast shutter speed, I can capture the ISS against a specific backdrop. In this case, the Apollo 11 landing site. This is cropped as a phone wallpaper for you. Enjoy! I’ll post another tomorrow.

Got it! I’ve been searching in a number of WHSmiths this past week, including Scotland, but finally found a copy of this ⁦Commando Comics⁩ in my local store. Such a great cover.

Here’s a new poem called ‘To Be Pacific’.

If you enjoyed what I did at Autocar and Car before that, doing the same but bigger & better right here and it is free at the point of delivery out every Wednesday lunchtime jamesruppert.substack.com

First day wearing new training shoes*. The lightness and springiness brings false potential of pace and poise to otherwise aged limbs. *still how refer to them despite never having done a day’s training in my life.

Used to be model cars were flawed approximations of the real thing and you celebrated how close they had got to suggesting the shape and stance of the real thing. Now it's as if they shrink real cars, more facsimile than art.

Special Fish supper at Valerio’s in Lanark.

Always something interesting at The Sun.

Am I so keen on the FIA World Endurance Championship as to get up at 2:40am to watch the race from Japan live? Yes, yes I am.

Two, three and four-wheel fun parked at the diner this morning. The tread on the Ducati was minimal but stylish swooshes. Water clearing effectiveness dubious.

Nicely done.

Just discovered this film about where I grew up. The story of the once great Iron producing town of Coatbridge, in central Scotland, as told through contemporary testimonies and reports. The period covered is from 1828 to 1967, when production ended. vimeo.com/1009490990?sha…

Yesterday was a good day.

Another uncanny replica but most astonishing is that it’s of the base model, not the aspirational GTi or rally car.

Today was another good day. (Dorchester, Weymouth, Portland Bill & Lyme Regis)