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Taken a few days off, and making the most of the early autumn day to achieve a "Laundry Basket Zero" state. The garden is now more of a Bedding-field, and like the great poet, I've "got to get through this" remaining laundry. In a high risk move, I washed the errant red socks with a t-shirt of a similar hue, hoping that symbiosis between those items would,  if not completely avoid colour bleed, at least give it a safe place to go: As the socks bleed, the t-shirt receives, as one might say.  The whiteness of the quilt cover vindicates that strategy. Where some might see overlap, I see an efficient peg utilisation system. The hammock's water retention characteristics continue to be of concern.

These buildings are the last remaining structures of "The Austin"; Rover Group's Longbridge car factory,  where, at its peak in the mid-sixties, production reached c.325,000 units, now sitting amongst the new builds of a St Modwen housing estate, complete with mainly German or South East Asian-built cars on their drives. The tracks and paint vats of CAB1 (Car Assembly Plant) can be seen here, in a factory where thousands of workers from generations of families once built models such as the Austin Seven, MINI ( with Lulu driving the last classic Cooper off the production line in October 2000) , Metro, Allegro, 200, and in later years, the 75, and MG-F/TF. Following MG Rover's collapse in 2005, the site saw small-scale assembly until 2017, but now, Chinese state-owned car manufacturer SAIC, owner of the MG brand, operate only a technical facility in Longbridge, on the part of the site formerly known as the Q gate: the main factory entrance. The video for The Chemical Br...