In a World where Trump, Netanyahu, the UAE, Putin et al slaughter innocents, there is some human decency left 
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What’s this? A feel-good story? You’re losing your touch Monsieur Lapin. 
it is reassuring to see an example of normal human decency though.
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We need more of this.
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not easy to find “good news” stories in the Press, especially with so many horrific happenings (fires/accidents/incidents).
Fingers crossed, I reckon folk are generally still being polite, friendly, kind, helpful… as and when the situation requires it… even if it doesn’t get reported 
and each of us can try and do a good-deed everyday… make someone smile and/or feel better ???
I gave my brother my big lottery win of last friday. To be spent on beer and maybe a packet of crisps whilst on holiday this week in Cornwall. A massive ÂŁ8.20
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Do you mean more nice rabbit or more kindness stories, if the latter it’s a series - there are loads - and all well worth reading!
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The Rabbit will never change… 
Not withstanding they are (were) racist right wingers, it’s a nice song, Just substitute “rabbit” for “bird”
Now I’d have expected something like this
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Sorry, while I love the song, the drug issue doesn’t sit well
You won’t like my favourite song of all, then, Another Girl, Another Planet.
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That is good-un, I’ll give you that. Up there in my list of favourites too. About as close to the perfect pop song as you’re ever going to get.
I had something like this happen, while attempting and failing to drive down to my house in the Var, in May of this year. I was staying at the very beautiful Mini Chateau de Quesmy near Rheims and had gone early to bed with a bit of a backache. The next morning, I could not move without extreme discomfort and my right leg was at least partially paralysed, so getting to the bathroom was a long shuffle on hands and knees. I had suffered a prolapsed intervertebral disc between L5 and S1. The hotel called for an ambulance and helped carry me downstairs with the paramedics, to take me to the hospital in Noyon, where treatment by the medical staff was very indifferent, incompetent and casual and had it not been for a hospital receptionist taking pity on me to arrange a hospital car, I really don’t know what I would have done. In the meanwhile the Chateau had repacked my luggage and booked another hotel for me in the centre of Noyon, as they had a wedding party over the weekend with all their rooms being booked. The hospital car drove me to the Chateau to pick up an overnight bag and then back to the hotel in Noyon. The car driver helped me all the way to my room.
My wife drove over with an old friend the next day to drive my car back to the UK, as she will not drive my car (too big, too powerful and too complicated). When we went back to the Chateau to collect my car and to pay for my night’s stay, the owner and his wife were very solicitous of my health and how I was managing. My wife had brought over a large bottle of Oxycodone with her and a number of doses of that helped me survive the journey back to the UK. Sadly I think that is the end of me driving down to the Var and in June, I flew down to Nice. I have a small car stored over the winter in France (a Morgan Three Wheeler) and can use that for short journeys and local shopping.
As a fellow Morgan owner, albeit a four wheeler, I don’t think that will do your back any good RW. Or the melanoma. I can’t understand the folk driving around here with their roofs down in full sun. Even if they are smothered in factor 50 they are idiots.
What you need is a nice comfy, eco friendly FIAT Topolino Much more stylish than the Ami IMO;
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And one of the shortest - they crammed so much variety into just a couple of minutes.
And of course have always loved that oh so abrupt ending.
Oddly the Morgan 3W’s primitive seat seems to suit my back better than the 20 way adjustable seat in my Porsche Panamera. My previous Porsche’s, which were all 911s, mostly Turbo S versions, had far more comfortable seats than the Panamera, where Porsche now use rock hard leather that resembles Rhinoceros hide. I am 1.71m tall but only weigh 62kg, so there is just not enough padding on me, between my bones and the seat.
Oh, I’m not a Porsche fan RW. Then again I don 't like truffles either, which I am told are super too. Since my first experiences with them (Porches) in the mid seventies, the now supposedly desirable air cooled ones always just sounded like noisy uncomfortable Beetles to me, and they were foul handing. Obviously the late and much missed Jenks (I’m sure you are familiar with him) would disagree. I’ve a lot of his books and his love of the marque is renowned.
Through a friendship I was invited to be part of the service team for the ground breaking Chequered Flag (Chiswick) rally team. Amongst other events, we campaigned a Lancia Stratos’ and a Porsche Carrera on the 1976 Circuit of Ireland.
I preferred the Stratos.
I’ve friends who have had 924s and 944s back in the day and one who had a Panamera a couple years ago. All failures IMO, front engines don’t work for the Porsche legend, that’s why they canned the 924, 944 and the 928. Fine cars but not “real” Porches. No less than your Panamera (Volkswagen Group MSB platform) or the Tiguan based Macon or the Cayenne which is a tarted up VW Touarag. They are just badge engineering at its worst, like Leyand in the seventies. A Porsche today (apart from the 911) is like a 1970s Riley or Wolsey 1100 compared to an Austin or Morris equivalent. Bit of wood, leather seats and a dollop of pissing off the neighbours.
Flat six, or flat four for the wannabes, are still the signature of Porches. Front engine and electric has failed. I note secondhand electric Taycans can be had for relative buttons. A bargan, and I thought of buying one, but driving a Porsche attracts too much negative attention IMO, so I demurred. Interestingly, at a Morgan gathering last year one of our troop said he had dumped his Porsche in favour of a Morgan for that very reason.
Personally I think Porsche is stuffed 98% plunge in operating profits and a 16% drop in vehicle deliveries (122,306 cars) in the first half of 2026 I also think VW is stuffed, lamentably for a major EU company, but deservedly for management incompetence and union intransigence. British Leyland II. I hope they pull it back from the brink.
Given all the marques of cars I’ve had over the the years I can’t think of one Porsche I’d actually like to own. But I’m sure a carefully chosen air cooled one is a good investment.
A nice little 246 Dino might scratch my last itch though 
They can be tail happy, especially the very early short wheelbase cars. We had a 1967 911 classic rally car (for the Carrera Panamerica) with the titanium 906 engine in it and it would swap ends if you looked at it. The 1972 2.6 Kremer I had for about 12 months in 1976 was not a lot better and I sold it before I damaged myself. More recently I had a 2002 996 Ruf turbo that had too much power (550 BHP) for its chassis and was OK when driven at about 90% but above that very tricky. I replaced it with the 997 Turbo Special off the 2006 Monaco Motor Show Porsche Stand, which was a wonderful car. The same power as the RUF but far safer handling. I swapped it for a new Panamera in 2017, which in retrospect was a mistake. Lastly I found in 2010, in a California scrap yard for old competition cars, the mostly stripped remains of a 1977 Penske built RSR, which I had rebuilt by Tuthills to a 3.3L RSR spec. Initially it did not run correctly but after I took it to RSR-Tek in the Netherlands who replaced the DME module (Digital Managed Engine) with a superior programmable one, the dyno showed we were getting 300 BHP at 7300 RPM and huge torque all the way through the rev range. I was running 10” wide wheels at the rear and 8” at the front shod with Michelin TB15 road legal race tyres - Picture below on Scottish Malts Trial. I rallied it all over Europe for 10 years but age and the after effects of a huge accident when testing a Lotus 62B with DFV engine in 1971 started to catch up with me (I was in hospital for 3 months at the time followed by 6 months of rehab) and my age of 80, so I sold the RSR last year to a Swiss gentleman. I am probably intending to replace the Panamera with a 992.2 GTS - Hybrid T 911, as I just don’t need the 710 BHP of the current Turbo.
I’ve never had to worry about whether I would like driving a Porsche or a Morgan.
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Lovely looking car, and what I’d consider a “real” Porsche. 911s were pretty bullet proof rally cars, the Stratos was rather fragile. Well the Chequered Flag ones were anyway. Per-Inge Walfridsson wrote the first one off on the Welsh, if I remember correctly, 1976.
I’d order the 992.2 quickly if I was you, things aren’t going well in Wolfsburg or Zuffenhausen Or if you fancy a bit of seventies nostalgia…
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The amount of money I have “wasted” on cars over the years 
The Morgan isn’t expensive though. I’ve had it twelve years and I’d guess I’d get close to what I paid for it.