I shouldn't be here. I should have been at Gaydon. Having
missed the world launch of the all-new Land Rover Defender I was due to attend
the British launch at Gaydon this week as part of my 'day-job'.
The thought
of Gaydon and Land Rover conjured up
images of impossible climbs, deadly descents, bottomless bogs and waatter. Lots
and lots of waatter. But the game's a bogey. The event has been called off (for
now!) as 'non-essential' journalists are all confined indoors for the foreseeable
future.
Land Rover
launches are always extremely good fun. Sorry, I meant to say, sheer hard graft
demanding huge levels of concentration, physical effort, determination and
stamina to cope with the rigours that the LR staff put the motoring Press
through. Those poor sods are left mentally drained at the end of the tortuous
exercise. I must stress there is absolutely no fun involved or enjoyment
gained, this is work after all!
Aye, right.
The LR team puts on some of the best Press launches in the business, so we'll
just have to wait. In the meantime I have reprinted (and updated) an article
which was written by my Big Pal Jaggy when he was invited to a very, very
special and exclusive event 11 years ago. No other journalists were there that
day, so how he blagged the invitation we'll never know - and better not ask.
So if you
fancy a wee bit of something different, it's in the on-line mag now:
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