Another year, and another retreat at Glen Eyrie for my wife, and another opportunity for me to pop over there to, er, take her something she’d forgotten. In the Volvo, of course. And it was a lovely sunny October day before the next snowstorm closes in tomorrow, so of course I had to take a couple of photos. […]
Quick photo at the Shops at Briargate
It was a very sunny early Sunday morning and I was out getting the breakfast bagels from Panera, when I noticed that I could do a clear shot of 64SAINT in front of the side wall of Biaggi’s. No cars parked in the way, no one around. ‘Nuff said – especially as the previous day I’d washed and waxed the car – so I quickly drove there and took the photo. […]
64SAINT.com is now secure
Over last weekend and today, I finished up the first steps to making this website, 64SAINT.com, fully secure. As of this moment, the SSL certificate is installed so you should see https:// as the protocol for visiting the site (and trying to use http:// will just redirect you to the secure version), and those browsers that mark such things should have a closed padlock icon next to the address bar. […]
Panhard 24CT in Antwerp
A week ago I was in Antwerp for the Techorama developer conference. Ordinarily that would not be interesting enough to post about here, but on the last day, the Thursday, as we were leaving we came across this wonderful car, a Panhard 24CT (and, yes, I admit I had to use Google to find out what it was). Even better, just like 64SAINT, it was red and it was from 1964. […]
My “other” Volvo 1800S
Long, long ago (OK, it was in 1998 that I sold it), far, far away (OK, England), I used to own a 1969 Volvo 1800S, the last year before it became the 1800E. Red, as well, as it happens. […]
Quick photo at Glen Eyrie
2017 has been weird year for owning 64SAINT: in essence, we moved (bigger house, and an extra garage space – no more winter storage!) and I just didn’t have a lot of time for enjoying the car. Until the clutch went on my Audi that is, and I had to drive 64SAINT for 10 days or so in all kinds of crappy weather while it was being fixed. (And yes, I can attest that the windscreen wipers do work…) […]
Roger Moore, RIP
It had to happen sooner rather than later, I suppose, but I’ve just read the news that Roger Moore, erstwhile star of The Saint, the character that drove a certain model of Volvo, has died in Switzerland of a short battle with cancer. He was 89. […]
Articles previously posted elsewhere
Yesterday’s post about Google Street View and 64SAINT and the fact it was posted somewhere else than this blog, prompted me to gather all the posts I’ve published elsewhere into one article right here. After all, this blog is about my “Volvo 1800S” – a term which could also encompass those posts I wrote about my previous one from 20 years ago. By doing this, I can more easily find them in the future. […]
Google Street View from July 2015
I thought I’d posted this image here from a year or so ago, but it turns out that I’d only posted it to Facebook. Sigh. […]
Photoshoot at Glen Eyrie
What’s not to like: a beautiful sunny blue-skied late October day, my wife at a retreat in Glen Eyrie, and … she forgot something, so could I bring it to her? Pretty please? No sweat: it would make an ideal opportunity to do one of the last drives this year in 64SAINT before it goes into its winter hideaway, and in doing so an ideal opportunity to take a couple of photos in front of the castle. […]