Sorry folks, two consecutive posts

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An unusually scruffy looking MGA went by the shop today (The first MGA, I recall seeing, was a rough one in the mid 1970s but that was before they were really worth anything).
Late this afternoon my father had a slight mishap with a drill (Whilst working on his MG Midget, so in a good cause) and sort of took the tip of his little finger off. As I drove him to A&E, we saw an MG TF, with a Varitone Magnette behind. Whilst we were at Nevill Hall hospital, an MGA Coupe passed by, so I deduce something is going on west of here this weekend (Hope the bl**dy weather picks up for them).
My father’s finger should be OK; the tip has been secured with about four of five stitches but take this as a warning,
turn the plug off before changing the drill bit. It was one of these drill round corners drills and the switch is quite large. I suppose it’s more like an angle grinder, than a regular drill but instead of having a disk attachment, it has a chuck. Unlike most angle grinders I have seen, there is no safety mechanism, that you have to press in conjunction with the switch. He happened to touch the switch and it was the chuck key that did the damage, not the drill bit itself. I suppose when metal had a powerful motor behind it, it doesn’t have to be sharp to cause damage
It was quite eventful in A&E. On man came in dressed in shorts (Presumably so the doctors could get a good view). He had been riding an off road motorcycle and going up a gully, swiped his leg on a broken tree branch. It looked like his shin had been cut to the bone. A man, who had come in with someone else and who had not hitherto required treatment fainted at the sight of this. I bet none of us there thought the day would end up as it did when we got up this morning

Rules exist for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
MG Midget 1500, MGB GT V8, Morris Minor Traveller 1275, MG Midget 1275 & too many bicycles.