It was great to see Philip Male at our Log-in Noggin in early March. Philip has been based in Southwest France since the early ‘90s. You were most welcome Philip at our Log-in Noggin. He has always been a member of ThamesMOG, but it was great to have him register on our website. With the glorious microclimate in parts of the Aquitaine area, mild winters, pleasantly warm summers, it would be nice to have a ThamesMOG outpost there. Philip plans to visit us at the Pangbourne College Classic car show while he is returning to the UK to collect his

With our more global outlook these days, our fiftieth car badge has been selling all over the world. I would recommend that you get one fast from Dave Mansfield if you want one, because when they are gone they are gone. It is a fantastic badge from a great design team. Something we are all proud of indeed. Well done to Dave and his colleagues. The ThamesMOG newsletters continue to keep us informed, amused and engaged with stretching quizzes. We have taken to providing profiles of our committee members, and this has meant we have all had to dig deep

As 2021 unfolds, our ThamesMog newsletters have still been full of good cheer. Judging by the sad news coming through almost daily, I fear that it will be sometime before we can be out and about, and meeting up at our various or noggins: although, we are keeping going with our monthly virtual Log-In Noggins. Our Committee recently hosted Colin Thornton the Chairman of the Morgan Sports Car Club. On behalf of the Committee, I would like to thank Colin for joining us – it was a pleasure to meet you. We made good contact, and notes from the meeting

I would like to welcome you all to the New Year; I hope you will have a prosperous 2021 with good cheer and, above all, good health, and wish for a better year for us all. We have all been through difficult times. Thankfully our ThamesMOG newsletters has been full of good cheer throughout the year. If you have cabin fever over the festive season and want to blow away those cobwebs from your New Year’s celebrations, why not get down to The Phoenix Classic Car meeting on January 1st for the annual impromptu gathering of cars and car folk:

December 2020

I don’t believe our founders could have predicted that our fiftieth anniversary noggin would have been held via a computer in a video call. Back then it would have been science fiction. It was an enjoyable evening and I would like to thank everyone who joined in. Many thanks to David Williams for facilitating the Zoom and for Dave Cleveland for the coordination of what ThamesMOG has entitled a ‘Login Noggin’. We plan to continue with this approach of using Zoom for our Noggins in the next few months. Nevertheless, let’s hope in the near future we can meet in

I remember seeing in one of our ThamesMOG’s newsletters an image from the Back to the Future movie with the Doc saying, ‘Whatever you do, don’t go to the year 2020.’ Now if I had a Morgan Time Machine (of course we could not consider a DeLorean) I would go back to November 1970 to see the first noggin held on the first Thursday at the Bird In Hand. Knowl Hill. Therefore, this month our First-Thursday Noggin at the Bell and Bottle will be the fiftieth anniversary of this first meeting. We had planned to have a curry night in