I’m delighted to announce the arrival of the Nick Boylen Heritage Edition celebrating 40 years of blind refusal to accept defeat in the face of quality British workmanship. The 40th Anniversary Nick Boylen Heritage Edition has all the usual extras found in normal Land Rover owners such as unfounded optimism and a substantial discount at [...]

Finally, after a lot of problems with the franchised dealer and several electrical faults which had to be repaired by a second franchised dealer, Helena’s 2009 Defender 90XS has been delivered.  It has been very well looked after, but will need a thorough rust preventative treatment.  We’ll be using Rustmaster for that.   We fitted the [...]

And so the fleet grows again… We have just bought Helena a December 2009 Defender 90.  I’s a black XS spec Station Wagon, so has all the trimmings and the good rear seats, and is in immaculate condition.  The only defects I could find were a failed indicator bulb and the first stages of a [...]

Our personal circumstances have changed considerably in the last few weeks, and so we are now looking for a new car for Helena.  Had events happened just a couple of months before they did, we’d still have a Lightweight in the garage, but such is life…

A couple of people have reported some problems with multiple emails or notifications for the blog updates, so Helena has been looking through the system to try to find the fault (she’s a web designer and I’m no good at these things, so she sorts all of the blog’s technical issues out for me).  While [...]