#MGB Special

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MG Cyberster Red Top Edition, 2024. As the MG brand approaches its 100th birthday SAIC Motor have revealed a special edition of 100 cars that reference the MGA and MGB of the 50s & 60s which could be optioned with a red soft-top

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AETERNA | Prologue

SYNOPSIS: WHAT’S THE USE IN MAKING PLANS? IT’S ALL INEVITABLE ANYWAY.

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quick lil a/n: this isn’t an OC fic, audrey will just be a recurring character who is mentioned through the fic and this spooky lil prologue is her origin story I guess 🫶 we meet reader in chapter 1

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Audrey Weiss began her last morning the way that most people do: unknowingly. Unknowing in the sense that it was the last time she would bark at her sister to get out of the bathroom, or sigh too loudly when her mother asked her to take the trash out.

Mere weeks from graduation, her focus should have been college in the fall and summer trips and prom. Instead, she was thinking much shorter term — simply of her plans for that evening.

She had ducked out of her parents’ three-bed ranch style in the middle of Saturday morning breakfast, headed for the indubitably more important venture of tackling La Mesa Shopping Mall with her best friend, Suzie Clarke. Once Girl Scouts together, Audrey and Susanne were attached at the hip even now that they were all grown.

Suzie Clarke was the first person the police would speak to the next day, after Audrey was reported missing.

Exactly three weeks and four days from her high school graduation, big things were on the horizon for Audrey. She had been accepted into some pretty good schools for that fall, but her pick was Mount Holyoke — she was going to be a lawyer.

At the mall, she had found the most gorgeous jumpsuit. A peach color that made her brown hair look like pure silk with a crochet floral middle and bell bottoms that made her legs look a mile long. Something awful grown-up for a girl like Audie, but that was the point.

Then, back home, she had considered leaving her large, round wire-framed glasses on their vanity. They made her eyes look ten times bigger and unnatural, and her mouth look small — but she probably wouldn’t look too stellar if she couldn’t see either. These opinions were her own, formed by middle school boys from years passed.

To her baby sister, her glasses made Audie look awfully smart. There’s an old People magazine in their mother’s dresser that shows Barbara Streisand in a dark-framed pair of eyeglasses; Audie could look just like that if she combed her hair a bit.

To make matters worse after deciding that her glasses would make the cut, before she could make it to the safety of Stacy’s car, Audie’s mother had forced a denim jacket over her shoulders and told her to mind the weather. Like it was ever that cold around there.

Still, Audrey’s confidence was unwavered. She looked dynamite in her new jumpsuit, and four weeks into the long stretch that eighteen years old was supposed to be, she looked grown-up for the very first time, even with the glasses.

For the sixth time since March Third, 1977, Audrey Weiss bought a ticket and visited the circus on the outskirts of her hometown.

Santa Paloma, Arizona, was a safe place and only a stone’s throw from Phoenix. It had a movie theater and a couple of arcades, plenty of playgrounds, and a roller rink. Still, Audrey wasn’t interested in hanging out at any of those places.

No, she had her sights set bigger. Older. She wanted more than the other girls her age. Maybe if the boys her age had been kinder, this wouldn’t have been the case.

That’s why she was here, and why this sixth visit was going to be special; she had met a guy. In her killer new jumpsuit, with her hair done like Farah Fawcett, and her Mom’s lipstick coating her lips — her mind was all made up, tonight was the night that she was going to make her move.

Restless in every sense of the word, Audrey had lept out from the backseat of Stacy’s bubblegum blue MGB roadster first, her heart aflutter and her friends in tow. The late April sky was ablaze, orange and pink. It was quite the send off.

Children laughing and screaming, Audrey knew her way around the circus attractions well by now. She bid her friends goodbye with knowingly exchanged giggles, and started to walk. They had discussed Audrey’s plan in great detail by the point of its execution.

Brown leather sandals, barely leaving footprints across red dirt; she was gentle like that. Neon lights surrounding her, she passes by the carousel where she had first seen the man of her dreams for the last time. Its chimes sing her a goodbye as she disappears deeper into the Friday night bustle.

Eager, grinning faces surround her in a blur as Audrey strolls down the midway. A nervous, fast-feeling energy buzzes through her trembling limbs. The ring toss to her right, the shooting game to her left, her sights set straight ahead.

She had been too nervous to pick at the meatloaf her mother had made, and the air had smelled of warm popcorn and sugar. Her stomach growled, leaving no room for butterflies.

Amidst the epic orange and pink, the sky threatened to grow dark behind the looming, spinning ferris wheel.

Audrey left behind the painted faces and the smiles, the smell of sugar and the sound of shrieking laughter. Echoes of the excitement rang out behind her as she left it all behind. Her destination was beyond the fair, behind one of the big, red and white glossed storage trucks. Even in her killer new jumpsuit, Audrey had gone unnoticed.

One confident foot in front of the other, she squared her shoulders like the older girls do and kicked through that soft red dirt. Weaving between caravans, campers and trailers, restlessly brushing her hair back off of her shoulders and bringing it back in place.

A familiar whistled tune guided her where she intended to go.

Jake can usually be found whistling an Elvis tune.

His shirt slung over his shoulder, he passed between the lodgings coolly, headed to his camper to prepare for the show. Maybe he heard her coming, maybe he saw her feet under the caravans. By the time Audrey had rounded the corner, he had stopped and was staring at her.

He animated again, after a moment of static.

Jake was the star of the show, and to Audrey Weiss on that night in particular, he was just about the center of the universe. Tall, and gorgeous, with a strong jaw and a long, straight nose. Blond hair and golden skin, and green eyes. Muscles like something out of a comic book.

And despite being all of those things, Jake was nice, too.

“Hey, Aud-Ball.” Like odd-ball. But his way of teasing her wasn’t cruel like everyone else’s. He shot her a cool grin, his broad shoulders making his white tank stretch taught as he passed by her with no intention of stopping for a chat; again, in the kindest way. “You lost?”

This was far from their first conversation, but it was the first time she had gotten brave like this. There are signs all over the place saying staff quarters are off limits. She shouldn’t have been back there. She should have waited until after the show — Jake always came out to hang out front after the show was done, she could have found him then.

“No,” She wavered. A pit in her stomach and a lump in her throat, she looked down at the dirt and her glasses slipped a bit on the bridge of her nose. “I… wanted to see you.”

Jake can be real friendly. Too friendly, if you were to ask some of the folks around camp. Too friendly with ladies sometimes, too. That’s not what this was. When Audrey showed up for the second weekend, after Jake had complimented her glasses and told her she was funny — he had known she needed a friend. That’s all.

He played dumb.

“What for?” He stopped by the door of his trailer and took a moment to look at her. A slight heel to her sandals, a brand-new outfit, and magazine-worthy hair. He knew exactly what for.

She kicked and toed at the dirt, her eyes on the ground in a sheepish manner that tarnished all that work she had put into looking grown-up. “… I dunno.”

He looked behind her, and then around the two of them. The bustle of the fair sounded so far away. His grin settled into something friendly, but detached. The kind of look you get from a waiter when it comes time to decide on how much to tip.

“You lose your friends?” She never came alone. She had come with her parents that first weekend. She had looked so sad.

“No.” In her kicking and toeing at the ground, Audrey had wandered a bit closer to him. Close enough that he could smell her mother’s perfume on her neck, because she thought it was more mature than her own.

He took his shirt from his shoulder and wrung it in his hands, bootprints in the mud as he put some distance between the two of them. “Look, you know you’re not supposed to be back here. House rules.”

She looked up at him through those big glasses.

“Well, I mean—“

“Really. You should go.” He said more firmly. He was looking at her differently. The kindness in his eyes was gone and all that’s there was pity. In an instant, Audrey Weiss is crushed.

This wasn’t the first time she had been hurt by a boy. She had a tendency to read too much into things, to want things too much. There was a boy in ninth grade, he hadn’t ever liked her — she had convinced herself that he did. She had been so humiliated.

Jake watched her face crumple completely before him, and he was reminded of exactly what he saw in her that first weekend. A scared little girl with a heart full of sadness. He looked to the ground, feeling like he had knocked her to the dirt himself. She did look sweet in her new get-up.

“I’ll find you after the show.” Jake had offered.

Dejected, Audrey fiddled with the leg seam of her jumpsuit. She looked at the ground, and despite having no children, Jake got a glimpse at what it might look like if he had one to scold. She nodded her head weakly.

His lips twitched, his smile almost apologetic as he tapped at the side of his trailer and swung one foot in. “Alright.”

She presses her lips taut, staring at the indent she had toed into the dirt.

Jake hesitated by the door. He couldn’t stand the thought of letting her go, looking so sad. “Thanks for stoppin’ by— your hair looks killer, Audie.”

And so, Audrey had sulked back through the site and found her friends. With her being back so soon, and looking so cheesed — they hadn’t asked questions. They had bought her a coke, and taken their seats inside of the Big Top.

He said he would find her after, but to a girl like Audrey, that could mean a lot of things. Most of them were not good. As the lights dimmed and the familiar introductory drumbeat rattled out, Audrey just wanted to go home.

As he had five times before, the ringmaster burst out into the center of the area and threw his arms into the air, starting the evening with his usual speech. Audrey sipped sadly at her Coca-Cola from the stands. Jake comes on second for the first part of his act, right behind the ringmaster.

Audrey knew his routine like the back of her hand. Once again, she was not picked to be his assistant. As always, he was incredible.

At 9pm, the show had finished and the crowds were filing out. The fairground was even more abuzz than it had been earlier, the sky was a deep indigo, and Audrey really wasn’t in the mood to listen to Jake tell her that she just wasn’t his type. She wanted to be, so badly.

”I’ll pull the car around.” Stacy had told her saddened friend, already thinking that they could stop for milkshakes on the way home to cheer her up. Audrey had nodded absently, wondering where Jake had planned to find her.

“Come on, watch me hook a duck. I’ll win you something.” Suzie was Audrey’s best friend for a reason, after all. She looped her arm through Audrey’s and led her over to the attraction. She had just let go for a second, to take the pole from the attendant.

Audrey had just looked away for a moment. Well, maybe a few moments. It hadn’t felt like very long.

She stared across the sea of people, finding him in the spaces between. His eyes were settled right on hers, green and as kind as they always had been.

Standing over by the house of mirrors, Jake was wearing the same clothes he had been earlier, his shirt discarded over his right shoulder and his white tank stretched across his chest. He had gotten changed out of his show clothes quickly. Maybe he was excited to see her.

She bit at the inside of her cheek, nervous tingles making her fidget on her feet.

He straightened up, and cocked his head sharply to the side. The right side of his mouth tugged toward his ear like something was funny. He untucked his hand from his pocket, and pushed away from the support beam.

There was no goodbye, no ‘I’ll be back in a second’ — the plan was clear — Audrey hadn’t felt the need to waste time bringing her friends up to speed, that could be done in the morning. Light-footed, her brown sandals barely marked the soft dirt beneath her feet.

He had turned and reached for the door, watching her over his shoulder. Her eyes scanned across the neon red signage above him as he disappeared into the Hall of Mirrors. The door fell shut behind him.

Audrey’s heartbeat hammered like a snare drum. Her entire nervous system could keep easy pace with a Lynyrd Skynyrd record. Her dad loved those guys.

The sky darkened behind her, the metal handle cold under her palm as she opened up the door. She leaned inside, and peered around, half-way inside. “Jake?”

The halls between all the mirrors had to be lit somehow, and someone chose blood-red bulbs. Darkness in the corners of the reflections, red illuminations right through the center. Audrey took one sure-footed step inside, her mouth twitching toward a nervous smile.

She let go of her breath and smiled. Sticking her fingers out, she touched her own reflection right in front of her. Filtered red, she looked so different. Her hair really did look killer. Her glasses hadn’t ever looked that awful. She trailed her hand softly along the glass as a marker, following the whistle tune.

Butterflies tickled her tummy. She pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose and let the door fall shut behind her, her second step less-certain. “Jake, are you in here?”

Of course he was, she had just seen him walk right in. To banish her doubts further, a whistle rings out from deeper within the maze. Unmistakably the first eight notes of Elvis’ I’ll Never Fall in Love Again — the song Audrey listened to in her bedroom when she thought of him. How incredible, that he had picked that song.

She bit at her bottom lip to keep from smiling, and called out one last time. “Jake?”

NEXT CHAPTER

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A fan named Cathy meeting Peter Tork in 1967; photo via Cathy's blog.

"While most girls loved Davy, I had a 15 year old girl true love for Peter.

In 1996 I saw them again (minus Michal [sic] Nesmith) on their Reunion Tour while living in Reno, Nv. Davy was wearing a cast on his leg and had to sit on a stool a good bit of the time. But I didn’t care. I was 16 years old again and being taken to another place and time by the Monkees and their music.

[...] I was head over heals [sic] 'ga ga' for Peter Tork of the Monkees. Most girls loved Davy but I loved Peter. Jimmy [sic] Hendrix commented on several occasions that Peter was the 'most talented one of the Monkees.[']

My mother knew that Peter was my obsession. She knew someone with the record label and was able to get the address to his home. We got in her dark green convertible MGB and drove up into the Hollywood Hills. She said she had a surprise for me. We pulled up in front of a really cool house and parked across the street. She told me this was the home of Peter Tork. She said I could go up to the door and ask for him autograph and to take a picture with him.

I was terrified….a pretty common state for me …but even more so that day. I froze. My mother was annoyed and finally coaxed me out of the car. I followed her across the street. She knocked on the door. Terror…Panic…What if I pass out or say something really stupid.

We waited. A young woman came to the door (in a white bikini bathing suit-not underwear.) My mother told the young woman that it was my 16th birthday and what we wanted. She invited us in. She took us into the room where Peter was on the phone. He stopped and listened to what we wanted. He talked to me for just a minute. I was too terrified to talk. I must have said something, but I am still not sure what it could have been. My mother took some pictures and Peter gave me hug. I couldn’t speak. This picture is the only one I have. Claudia kept this one and gave it to me when she found out I didn’t have them any longer. The other pictures and the postcard with his picture he autographed for me were lost during my 'drinking days.'

So that is the saga of my 16th birthday. It was truly a summer of change for me. For the first time, I was away from the tight-fisted control of my grandmother and my alcoholic grandfather. I started the school year with a new-found courage and belief that I was just maybe a little bit special." - Cathy, Cathy's Voice Now, February 29, 2012 [x]

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Cat photobomb in BJD photos

Doll nudity

BJD comparison photos. Plus cat.

Iplehouse nYID Bianca, light brown resin.

Front: Iplehouse CREAA-J fantasy head on Dollshe light tan 26F mini body.

Dika Doll Sara on 65 cm body, tan resin.

Tiny front: Depths Dolls Latimeria in coffee resin.

Behind: Impldoll Leona on 63 cm muscular female body in "real" resin.

Front: Resinsoul Ya on Resinsoul Shi body, light tan, with Resinsoul Daytime arms in limited brown.

Back: Granado Jane on Embody body in tan.

Front: Iplehouse EID Aaliyah, special real resin.

Back: Iplehouse HID Aaliyah, ditto.

Front: Raccoondoll White Emma on New Slim body (v.3), sweet mocha resin.

Limhwa/EOS Doll head on Impldoll Star MGB female body.

Iplehouse nSID Mari, Peach Gold resin.

Dika Doll Sara again.

Spirit Doll Freesia head, normal skin resin, on April Story (something something) body, normal skin resin.

Leona again.

Impldoll Lydia on her body.

Same group, new characters:

Soul Doll Vito body, normal skin, no head.

Mystic Kids Miri, normal skin.

MSD or 1/4 scale BJDs:

Myou doll Basil, coffee resin, on Little Monica Little Harmony body, normal skin.

Iplehouse CREAA-J Cecilia human head, white resin, on Dollshe 16F mini body in ??? (I think it's oriental, but I can't remember)

Dollshe Diana on Allegorica Evelyn body

Withdoll JWD Olivia, normal skin

Dollzone Douglas, normal skin, on Dreaming Doll Little Elva body, white resin.

Iplehouse CREAA-J Cecilia fantasy head, white resin, on Dollshe 26F mini body, light tan

Resinsoul Dawn, white resin, on Dollmore Judith body, white resin

Raccoondoll Emma again

Iplehouse CREAA-J Elysia, white resin

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【Daily Makeup】Slow Morning Routine

Hello, this is Hikaru. Thank you for watching! This time, in response to many requests in the comment section, I filed my very first makeup video💄 I was more nervous in the morning than I thought so the video turned out pretty random 😂 The look is too simple I am wondering if it will be helpful for anyone ... 😇 If you have any recommended cosmetics please let me know in the comments ✨Also please be sure to send your video suggestions📝

[Introduced items]

mgb skin: GROW TONE UP CREAM

mgb skin: GROW SUN CUSHION SPF50+ PA++++ MINI

LUNA: LONG LASTING TIP CONCEALER

TIRTIR: MASK FIT CUSHION MINI SPF50+ PA+++

espoir: Protailor be glow cushion SPF42 PA++

mgb skin: GLOW SKIN POWDER

CAN MAKE: Shading Powder

exceL: LONG LASTING EYEBROW

KATE: 3D eyebrow color N

&be: Cream Eyeshadow

rom&nd: (mini Special Set SPRING GARDEN) BETTER THAN EYES

B IDOL: "Easy eye liner"

Cipi Cipi: Point Concealer

Cipi Cipi: Glitter Illumination Liner

KATE: LUSH FORMER

B IDOL: 1 more pencil Spot highlights

Lake: Fruity Glam tint 111 Mellow

I loved this. Always very curious about other people’s make-up routine. Wish she had posted this sooner so I could have purchased some of the items in Japan. A few of them are quite affordable and look pretty neat. Her eye make-up is on point so I would have liked to try some of that stuff. Also, so happy to see her use the same JillStuart mirror as Keiko (or maybe it actually IS Keiko’s mirror?). Damn it, I SHOULD HAVE bought this while I was in Japan.

Poor Hikaru had quite a lot of trouble exporting that video yesterday. Not sure how many of you saw her bathtub tweet but that was more than likely the result of a very weird mood. She later regretted posting it and took down the tweet again XD It probably also had something to do with lots of horny fans treating the picture as if it were scandalous. I knew she would backpedal like crazy as soon as I saw the first horny reply.

Look below the cut to see the picture she deleted (it’s honestly not as scandalous as people made it out to be)

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"Belpol" talked about some former police officers who distinguished themselves during the protests and are now in the territory of the EU. As a rule, they work where no special skills are required. For example, truck drivers.

One of such former security forces is Dmitriy Ivanovich Scarabagaty. Until recently, he was the deputy chief of the public security police (MGB) of the Central Police Department of Gomel.

According to "Belpol", police lieutenant colonel Skarabagaty led the detentions in Gomel on June 19, 2020. Personally - by arrests in the Central district of the city.

Now Skarabagaty works in Poland as a truck driver.

Pokuts Oleg Sergeevich was also seen in the EU. He worked at the Police Department of the Central District of Gomel as the head of the department for drug control and combating human trafficking.

According to "Belpol", the police major participated in the dispersal of peaceful protests on August 29 in Gomel.

Now, Pokuts is undergoing training for further employment in the EU as a truck driver.

(c) Nasha Niva

Let's share our "heroes."

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Turkey offers to assemble the F-16 Block 70 fighters

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 01/12/23 - 16:00 in Military

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Turkey expressed interest in riding Lockheed Martin's F-16 Block 70 fighter, according to a report in the Turkish media.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has informed Lockheed Martin that it wishes to participate in the new F-16 supply point.

“If they allow it, we can assemble the F-16s,” TAI general manager Temel Kotil told the Defense Turk website on Wednesday.

Experts from the US-based company visited Turkey to study the proposal.

Turkish Air Force F-16 Block 30 fighter that is being upgraded to Block 70 level.

Ankara's request to add 40 new F-16 Block 70/72 jets to its Air Force's fleet of fighters and buy 80 modernization kits for the old ones has been in turbulent waters since it bought Russia's S-400 missile systems. The aforementioned agreement also cost Turkey a place among the elite countries chosen to participate in the production of components for the F-35 Lightning II, and an opportunity to buy them.

Turkish manufacturers are currently upgrading the old F-16 Block 30s to Block 70 level, and this includes the addition of MGB mission computers, a new console with a multifunctional color screen, IFF Mod 5/S "friend-enemy" system that is similar in capabilities for NATO KY58 and KY100 and an AESA MURAD radar.

The Turkish Air Force is ready to receive the first F-16 updated this year.

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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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Classic Rovers Travel: Vintage Car Hire for a Timeless Marriage Experience

Your wedding day is one of the most memorable moments of your life, a celebration of love, commitment, and the beginning of a beautiful journey together. Every detail counts, from the venue and flowers to the food and entertainment. One element that can elevate your big day and create lasting memories is the choice of transportation. For couples looking for something truly special, Classic Rovers Travel offers a fleet of vintage cars that add elegance, charm, and nostalgia to your wedding day.

The Charm of Vintage Cars for Your Wedding

There’s something undeniably romantic about vintage cars. With their sleek lines, intricate detailing, and timeless appeal, classic cars evoke a sense of elegance and grandeur that modern vehicles simply can’t match. Imagine stepping into a luxurious, perfectly restored 1960s Jaguar or a stylish Rolls-Royce, and cruising through your wedding day in classic, understated style.

Whether you’re seeking the sophisticated glamour of a bygone era or the rustic charm of a classic land rover, Classic Rovers Travel provides a range of vintage vehicles that cater to every wedding style, from intimate gatherings to lavish celebrations. Their cars bring an air of sophistication, turning even the most ordinary drive into a memorable experience.

Why Choose Classic Rovers Travel?

1. A Fleet of Stunning Classic Cars

Classic Rovers Travel offers an exquisite selection of vehicles from renowned British automakers, including Land Rovers, Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, and MGB. Each car is carefully maintained and restored to its original glory, ensuring that you’ll arrive in absolute comfort and style. Whether you prefer the rugged charm of a vintage Land Rover for an outdoor wedding or the luxurious elegance of a Rolls-Royce for a more formal affair, Classic Rovers Travel has the perfect option for your big day.

2. Professional Chauffeurs

The team at Classic Rovers Travel doesn’t just provide you with a beautiful car; they offer a full-service experience. Their professional chauffeurs are experienced, well-mannered, and dedicated to making sure your journey is as smooth and stress-free as possible. Dressed in elegant attire, the chauffeurs ensure you arrive on time and in style, allowing you to focus on the most important thing: your celebration.

3. Personalized Wedding Packages

Every wedding is unique, and Classic Rovers Travel understands the importance of customization. They offer a range of wedding packages designed to meet your specific needs. Whether you’re looking for a single vehicle for the bride and groom or a fleet of cars for the entire wedding party, they will tailor the service to fit your requirements. You can even request special touches like ribbons, flowers, and champagne to enhance the experience.

4. Memorable Photo Opportunities

Vintage cars make for stunning photo backdrops. Their distinctive features, from elegant curves to polished chrome finishes, create a striking contrast with the natural beauty of wedding venues. Imagine your wedding photos capturing you and your partner stepping out of a vintage Rolls-Royce, or the bridal party gathering around a classic Jaguar for group shots. The timeless quality of these cars will ensure your photos have a special, enduring charm.

5. Reliability and Comfort

While vintage cars may exude classic charm, Classic Rovers Travel ensures they meet modern standards of reliability and comfort. All vehicles are meticulously maintained, and you’ll enjoy a smooth and comfortable ride to your ceremony and reception. You can rest assured that every detail of your transportation will be taken care of, allowing you to focus on what really matters.

Perfect for Every Wedding Style

Whether you’re planning a grand, traditional wedding or a more intimate affair, a classic car can complement your theme and enhance the overall atmosphere of your day. For example:

For a Regal Wedding: A Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud or a Bentley S3 provides unparalleled luxury and sophistication, making it the perfect choice for brides and grooms looking to make a grand entrance.

For a Rustic or Vintage-Themed Wedding: A classic Land Rover or a vintage Jaguar offers the ideal blend of rugged charm and timeless elegance, perfect for outdoor, countryside, or barn-style weddings.

For an Intimate, Classic Wedding: An MGB Roadster or a Mini Cooper can add a touch of retro charm, creating a more relaxed yet still stylish vibe for smaller celebrations.

Booking Your Vintage Car with Classic Rovers Travel

Booking your vintage wedding car with Classic Rovers Travel is easy and stress-free. Their dedicated team is ready to assist you every step of the way, from choosing the right vehicle to coordinating the details on the day of your wedding. To reserve your dream car, simply get in touch through their website or by phone to discuss availability, prices, and customization options.

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The Timeless Legacy of MGB: Our MGB Celebrates 60 Years of Automotive Excellence

    For automotive enthusiasts, particularly those with a penchant for British classics, the MGB holds a special place in their hearts. This year marks a momentous occasion our  legendary roadster turns 60, a milestone that deserves to be commemorated with reverence and nostalgia. Join us as we embark on a captivating journey through the annals of this beloved sports car, exploring its rich…

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Watch the documentation of the stabbing attack in Jerusalem - a terrorist attacks an ultra-orthodox young man, stabs him and tries to stab security guards until he is neutralized.

The police informed about the details of the attack that around 4:30 p.m., a Palestinian terrorist, a Salafi resident (about 25 years old), arrived near the Shaar Nablus square in Jerusalem.

After approaching a citizen who was passing by, he pulled out a knife and stabbed him.

He also tried to stab the police officers who were operating on the spot.

The vigilance and quick reaction of the policemen who returned fire led to the neutralization of the terrorist.

As a result of the stabbing attack, the citizen who was moderately stabbed was taken to receive medical treatment at Shaari Tzedek hospital in the city.

A large police force arrived at the scene. Shortly after the attack, the commander of the Jerusalem district, Superintendent Doron Turgeman, held a special situation assessment together with the commanders at the scene of the attack. At the end of the assessment of the situation, the district commander said: 'The response of the police officers who neutralized the terrorist in a few seconds prevented the continuation of the attack and further damage to human life.

There is no substitute for our vigilance and operational vigilance in any arena and at any time.

I support the MGB officers who responded to the attack with determination while striving for contact and returned fire at a terrorist who tried to murder civilians and policemen.

We will continue to act resolutely in the face of terrorist threats, whatever they may be, and to protect the citizens of the State of Israel.'

The Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, spoke with the Minister of Internal Security, Omar Bar-Lev, and with the Commissioner of the Police, Senior Superintendent Yaakov Shabtai, following the attack in Jerusalem.

The Prime Minister was updated on the findings of the initial investigation carried out following the attack at the Nablus Gate, and instructed to continue taking the necessary actions In order to prevent a flare-up in the field.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said:

'The male and female fighters acted quickly and very determinedly, as expected of the Israeli police, in the face of a terrorist who tried to murder an Israeli citizen.

I would like to give them my full backing. This is how our fighters were expected to act and this is how they acted .

We must not allow our capital city to become

[crimerecords-info]

September 28 is the Day of Remembrance of the victims of Tusculenai in Lithuania.

From September 28, 1944 to April 16, 1947, 767 people were executed in the internal prison of the NKGB (MGB) in Vilnius by the sentences of the Military Tribunal and the Special Meeting of the USSR (7 more people died before the execution of the death sentence).

Most of them (613 people) were charged and convicted under Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR – "betrayal of the motherland". The death sentences were carried out by a special group made up of employees of the NKGB (MGB) department A, who, after the executions, secretly buried the bodies of their victims in mass graves on the territory of the former Tusculenai estate.

Among those buried in the mass graves in Tusculanai: participants of the armed and peaceful anti-Soviet resistance, participants of the June 1941 uprising and fighters of the Polish underground of the Home Army. Some of those executed were accused of collaborating with the Nazis, participating in the Holocaust or crimes against civilians. For reference: during the German occupation, 370,000 Lithuanian residents died, including 190,000 Lithuanian Jews.

Execution of Lithuanian partisans, Kaunas, 1941

Of course, Lithuania has the right to remember whomever it wants. But currently she does it somehow one-sidedly. Not "like an adult", but like an offended child. For example, I could remember 23 thousand Lithuanians, about a thousand of whom were children who died at the hands of the "forest brothers".

*Translated using an electronic dictionary. The original text in Russian and much more on the criminal topic can be selected on the main page of the site - http://crimerecords.info/

[mgbsbycchl]

CCHL HULL UK showing just a small selection of our MGBs delivered to clients recently. https://www.cchl.co.uk/

Extra special treatment for Tumbler clients.

[thislovintime]

"MGB-GT" (Tork), live in Toronto on July 12, 1986; footage courtesy of assneck2007.

Q: “During the early dates of the 1986 Monkees tour, you performed one of your new compositions, MGB-GT. Will this song be included in the next Monkees album? Peter Tork: “I don’t know. I would like to. We’ll see. That was then, this is now!” Q: “From what sources do you draw your songwriting inspirations?” PT: “Sometimes just a phrase or a word catches my fancy. Then I hear a musical line. I try to figure out what kinds of sounds are coming out. Basically I just go by the sound. Then I try to find words that sound like they belong there.” - Blitz!, November/December 1987 “As far as I’m concerned, a lot of what I like is not commercial. But I’m bored silly by some long, long guitar or drum solo. I don’t know where anybody would get the idea that I’d rather be a bore than to have things concise. I’m an artist, and an artist must tear his work down to the bare bones. There is no room for exces in real art. As far as I’m concerned, excess is self-indulgence. That is, the narrow, limited, individualized self. Not the greater, glorious self that we all partake of. […] I love a good hook! I don’t write them very often, but I love them. I don’t intend to be self-indulgent.” - Peter, Blitz!, May-June 1980 “MGB-GT,” of course, went on to be included on Stranger Things Have Happened; more on that next month during a special series shining a spotlight on the album.

[maleficentmrsofallevil]

Welcome home, Zhi Shen

Another bitch has joined my assassins. Zhi Shen says she does "wet work" only (I don't know what that means, and I'm not asking).

Elysia is convinced Zhi Shen is "Mommy." I don't know what that means, either. Zhi Shen looks tired. Sorry, girl.

Left to right:

Limhwa elf head on Impldoll 65 cm Star MGB body in tan resin.

Soul Doll Duke of Arhanian (too pretty to be a boy) head on Resinsoul 68 cm "bigger" girl body in white resin

Iplehouse Aaliyah, HID body, Special Real resin

Supia Doll Rosy head on Impldoll Idol body, white resin

Miracle Doll Zhi Shen on 68 cm muscular body, NS

Dreaming Doll Mercur Judy on Queen Elva (65 cm) body in NS

Kneeling: Iplehouse CREAA-J Elysia human head on Doll Leaves 43 cm Dream Girl body (version 2).

[magnoliabloomfield]

My writing style?

It’s a dash of Lemony Snicket’s cynical narration

A bit of Bill Waterson’s purple prose and social observations

Sprinkled with Markus Zusak’s sadness

Punctuated by Patrick Ness’s character torture

And woven all together with Guillermo Del Toro’s quirky darkness

[bloomfield-book-ratings]

Magnolia's TBR List- Fiction

Once I do a review for a book I will turn the title into a link to the review. As I add books to the TBR I will put the new date on them. I'm going to try not to buy more books until I get through these but... ha.

12/1/2021

Project Hail Mary- Andy Weir

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars- Christopher Paolini

Madhouse at the End of the Earth- Julian Sancton

The Lost Apothecary- Sarah Penner

Pan's Labyrinth- Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

Straight on Till Morning- Liz Baswell

Unbirthday- Liz Braswell

Never Ever- Sarah Saedi

The Rest of Us Just Live Here- Patrick Ness

Poison for Breakfast- Lemony Snicket

The Apollo Murders- Chris Haofield

The Last House on Needless Street- Catriona Ward

The Madness of Crowds- Louise Penny

Cloud Cuckoo Land- Anthony Doerr

Fresh Brewed Murder- Emmeline Duncan

The Ten Thousand Doors of January- Alix E. Harrow

Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman

Ready Player One- Ernest Cline

Temping Fate- Esther Friesner

The Bridesmaid- Hailey Abbott

Mortal Engines- Philip Reeve

The Compound- Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen

Ashes- Ilsa J. Bick

Monument 14- Emmy Laybourne

Unwind- Neil Shusterman

Any Sign of Life- Rae Carson

Radio Girls- Sarah Jane Stratford

The Art Thief- Noah Charney

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things- Amanda Lovelace

The Isle of the Lost-

Return to the Isle of the Lost-

Rise of the Isle of the Lost-

Escape the Isle of the Lost- Melissa De La Cruz

The Devil in the White City- Erin Larson

The Mysterious Benedict Society-

the Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey- Trenton Lee Stewart

Little Paris Book Shop- Nina George

Leave the World Behind- Rumaan Alam