Redressing the balance

Now as I had time on my hands, I decided to start at the front and read each article in turn, rather than just scanning the magazine and reading the articles which took my eye. Everything was going fine until I arrived at Tales from the Vault: when the lights go out.

Now as a scooterist of the Sixties, there’s nothing gets my hackles up more than reading an article about how unreliable Lambretta scooters are; at that point I put the magazine to one side – I had read enough and my blood pressure at that point was going through the roof.

A couple of days later, Chris (better known as the Lambretta widow) said: “The language in your magazine is not good; what’s a ‘Bastard Tool’?” “Don’t you mean a bastard