My WIP book about Red Robbo, and Longbridge stuff.

[kadams1970]

I am looking into the AROnline email isssue.

Still very much running AROnline - best way to contact me is [email protected]. Encouraged by all of this – if you're at Gaydon this weekend, happy to catch-up. Introduce yourself, I don't bite.

[motorpunk]

11 minutes ago, kadams1970 said:

I am looking into the AROnline email isssue.

Still very much running AROnline - best way to contact me is [email protected]. Encouraged by all of this – if you're at Gaydon this weekend, happy to catch-up. Introduce yourself, I don't bite.

Oh that’s kind, thanks Keith. Email incoming…

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Snipes said:

How many pages?

Looky bottom left? 🤣

[robt100]

On 15/07/2025 at 19:16, Matty said:

Any chance of throwing about 50 blank ones in as well? Makes the book thicker and makes me look brighter in front of the wife

Just label them in the book as "unfinished due to strike action" just to keep the BL theme running 🙈

[Sigmund Fraud]

7 minutes ago, robt100 said:

Just label them in the book as "unfinished due to strike action" just to keep the BL theme running 🙈

Alternatively, he can transpose page 47 and page 74 as a homage to BL quality* control.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, robt100 said:

Just label them in the book as "unfinished due to strike action" just to keep the BL theme running 🙈

Yup, or pages with obvious defects, oil or rust.

[motorpunk]

Love this pic. This book is about the people. 

[New POD]

On 14/07/2025 at 20:27, motorpunk said:

The address I have for him shows a C6 outside 👊🏾

He went to the same 6th form college as my wife. (Southport Tech) 

[motorpunk]

On 16/07/2025 at 21:22, Sigmund Fraud said:

Alternatively, he can transpose page 47 and page 74 as a homage to BL quality* control.

Tempting….

[motorpunk]

50000 words. Every time I think I’m finished someone else gets in touch and I have to rejig it all to fit. I write with a reversed timeline, starting with what we know (communist, Edwardes, etc) and then working backward to his birth, with the idea we’ll uncover along the way what made Robbo so, well, red. I love this style, it’s difficult to write and rewarding to read, but, bugger me with a Maxi, when someone drops a few late facts in I have to upend my whole timeline and double check I’ve not already introduced things already somewhere. Was writing about how difficult it was making Minis and then I find this picture of a bloke actually smiling at Longbridge and have to tweak the narrative to suit. I love writing. I wish I could make a living from this.
 

[Matty]

He's only smiling cos he's working his notice 😁

[Matty]

@kadams1970 just seen this. Brilliant picture. Looks a lot like where I work (minus the quality league table).

[motorpunk]

3 hours ago, Matty said:

@kadams1970 just seen this. Brilliant picture. Looks a lot like where I work (minus the quality league table).

In the book already 👊🏾

[motorpunk]

I love the faces in the pickets lines. 

[motorpunk]

Another bloody rabbit hole. 51000 words, thought I was ready for the proof reader but waiting on a few last email replies…