Goodbye from Morgan's Mutterings (for now) and my Griff
Goodbye from Morgan's Mutterings (for now) and my Griff
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DaveM

Original Poster:

230 posts

294 months

Sunday 21st February 2010
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Unfortunately I am being made redundant (again) and due to the fact that I need my Merc to carry my elderly parents around and I can't afford to run two cars, my Griff has had to go. It was a sad day yesterday when I dropped her off at David Gerald's.

My G10TVR registration is also up for sale (on Pistonheads of course) as is my brothers old reg number (H6TVR).

If I can get another job (which obviously isn't that easy as we get older and I celebrate my 60th birthday next month) I may well join the ranks of TVR owners again, but in the meantime I wanted to say a big thank you for all your friendhsip over the years and especially Warwickshire and West Midlands region of the TVR car club and for those people who have said nice things about Morgan's Mutterings over the years.

I wish you all well, good health and a great summer to enjoy your Tiv's

Cheers

Dave


.Mark

11,104 posts

305 months

Sunday 21st February 2010
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DaveM said:
Unfortunately I am being made redundant (again) and due to the fact that I need my Merc to carry my elderly parents around and I can't afford to run two cars, my Griff has had to go. It was a sad day yesterday when I dropped her off at David Gerald's.

My G10TVR registration is also up for sale (on Pistonheads of course) as is my brothers old reg number (H6TVR).

If I can get another job (which obviously isn't that easy as we get older and I celebrate my 60th birthday next month) I may well join the ranks of TVR owners again, but in the meantime I wanted to say a big thank you for all your friendhsip over the years and especially Warwickshire and West Midlands region of the TVR car club and for those people who have said nice things about Morgan's Mutterings over the years.

I wish you all well, good health and a great summer to enjoy your Tiv's

Cheers

Dave
Dave, sorry to hear that - used to love the Mutterings, about all I miss from Sprint since not rejoining the club. I wish you well and good luck for the future. And still have your book and flick through it from time to time. thumbup

RetroWheels

3,399 posts

300 months

Sunday 21st February 2010
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As a Sprint reader i'd like to say thanks for your column, and as a fellow TVR driver, i hope circumstances find you back behind the wheel of a Tivver
some day.

Stevie Mojo

1,520 posts

266 months

Sunday 21st February 2010
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Best of luck, hope you get sorted.

wargriff

1,908 posts

231 months

Monday 22nd February 2010
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Sorry to hear your news, I have read your articles and have had a grin while doing so.

Hope you find something soon and manage to return to the Griff club.

Marc

FlipFlopGriff

7,144 posts

276 months

Monday 22nd February 2010
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Sorry to hear that Dave, hope you find something soon.
Hope you get another Tiv soon - must be a very sad day to see that Griff go. Can't see it being around for long.
FFG & Mrs FFG

Hairy Cornflake

644 posts

280 months

Monday 22nd February 2010
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Just a thought, could you make an income out of muttering?

I always thought your mutterings were well researched, well written and I looked forward to reading them. I am sure if you applied the same formula to other subjects then there could be a bit of freelancing going on!

Best wishes

DaveM

Original Poster:

230 posts

294 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2010
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Thanks for all the good wishes and kind comments. As for making a living out of "muttering" - it would be a difficult road to travel but I would love to - maybe I should start with muttering abou the company I work for and what they are dong - or maybe I will wait until I have the redundancy cheque in my hand as I have been here for nearly 100 years so I don't want to upset them before I wave goodbye with cheque held between 3 of my fingers (leaving a couple to wave with of course!!)

I probably will go self employed as a business consultant and copywriter - which I think means you can copy what someone else has written - so maybe Muttering will stil be a part of my life in the future!

Dave(still muttering) Morgan

SEN 18

1,247 posts

241 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2010
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When they made you redundant, hope you told your boss he is just another piece of st floating around in the system. Anyway good luck hope you find another job soon old chap.

Big Al.

69,336 posts

287 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2010
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All the best Dave, hope you get things sorted and see you back here soon. OH yes

RichB

56,266 posts

313 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2010
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In all seriousness Dave that's how Sniffpetrol started isn't it? Now Richard Porter is a script writer on Top Gear and writes all manner of stuff. Surely in this day of the Interweb, Facespace and Twogging you could publish something once a week and build a following. For a start write a piece and put it up on Pistonheads. Not that different to Nick Mason's piece in Octane once a month, I used to look forward to you mutterings so come on , you know you can do it! Anyway, good luck with the job hunt. smile Rich...

.Mark

11,104 posts

305 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2010
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RichB said:
In all seriousness Dave that's how Sniffpetrol started isn't it? Now Richard Porter is a script writer on Top Gear and writes all manner of stuff. Surely in this day of the Interweb, Facespace and Twogging you could publish something once a week and build a following. For a start write a piece and put it up on Pistonheads. Not that different to Nick Mason's piece in Octane once a month, I used to look forward to you mutterings so come on , you know you can do it! Anyway, good luck with the job hunt. smile Rich...
I second that. I'd subscribe to Morgans Mutterings in a flash.

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