Cheers Vulgalour, I have to admit to not having driven her more than a hundred miles since then, in fact I didn't drive her at all until a couple of weeks ago.
This wasn't through lack of will however, rather shortly after the last update I repaired the roof valleys and changed a couple of slates on the house, then decided to run up my ladders and bitumen the tin roof on the side shed that was once the original entrance to the house, then, only seven foot up, and after years working on train station roofs, railway viaducts etc without taking any harm I somehow got the ladder to skate away leaving me on the ground with various torn / stretched ligaments /muscles in my left shoulder and arm. This resulted in an inabilty to use the Austins long gear lever, and so she had to sit idle. I'm still in pain as I type this, but I did go for a 15 mile drive last night so things are looking up
On the upside while this was going on, the gearbox and original low geared A30 diff were pretty noisy, so I managed to find a reasonable Morris minor diff with the same ratio as an A35 for 50 quid from a pal, and a gearbox on Ebay for 55 quid, though that was located in Chester, having relatives in Lancs meant I could pick that up on a visit in the wifes' modern so that worked out ok.
Not being able to get down and under the car myself (still struggling with that) I "persuaded" my lad to change them for me. So now she has a good gearbox and a pretty decent diff, cruising speed is now quite a bearable 55 or so rather than its previous 45 which wasn't even that pleasant due to the noisy box.
Talking of noise, I've also been collecting soundproofing out of a couple of moderns that have fallen through our hands on their way to the great breakers in the sky and have now fitted some behind the dash, under the rear seat and up the seat back and over the gearbox area of the transmission tunnel, that in itself has made the little Austin quite a pleasant place to be, I have more so will slowly fit that as and when the arm permits.
Anyways, no piccies I'm afraid, but she is moving along, and once I'm fully happy with her those missing bits can be found and I will improve her further