We stay in the Railway station at Petworth and have done so for over twenty years, socializing with friends next door in the Badgers pub where having our photo taken in Bullshit Corner by the ‘Nobody gets out sober’ sign took me back to the old days when we were all much younger, carefree or foolish and left very inebriated at some ungodly hour of the morning. Nowadays, with the passing of time and the passing of stricter laws concerning drinking and driving, especially the day after where many a man has fallen foul of the law, we tend to consume considerably less.
Once upon a time I used to go to the Revival to see some motor racing but now we spend all our time at the Revival Style events, here Angella is on stage behind Dandy Wellington an American fellow who is the compare for the best dressed competition and on stage interviews with various vintage fashion icons.
Angella, with friends of ours including Yvonne in the blue who won the best dressed competition, if this isn’t a fine selection of British womanhood, I don’t know what is?
My car outside the Railway Station hotel, looking remakable clean considering the state of the car parks over the weekend. If you look closely you will see the Pullman railway carriges in the background and are actually the bedrooms which we think is rather fun and a tad more interesting than a Travelodge. Quite extraordinary, was meeting another Bentley Drivers Club member in the Railway Station who had been looking at an Arnage to purchase but someone had beaten him to it and then he realized my car was the one he had been looking at and I was the man who bought it first!
This is my ‘and finally’ image of Angella and our friend Roders, who as you can tell is not quite so concerned with the sartorial elegance of the weekend and more involved in watching the motor racing who came to say goodbye when leaving on the Monday morning.
Another year over and a fabulous time had by all, barring the weather. Here’s to next year when we will be back to the usual Goodwood Revival baking hot weather, we hope!
The Diary of a Country Bumpkin 