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Feel like flying

Though this is perhaps out of our usual remit, an email along the lines of: “We’ve got this for sale, picture attached, would you like to come and look at it?” from a company not too far away, and in a building helpfully located near to the workshop of friends, meant I was hotfooting it to the fenland city of Ely, for my first-ever sight of an Ecomobile. I was vaguely aware of them, but my knowledge was (and remains, truth be told!) scant.

What amused me most is that

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