TALKING ENGINES - SMALL ONES

If you are part of a group of guys all passionate about small engines, and you meet weekly for an hour or so to swap information, receive help from a man with a top knowledge of the subject, and get the hands dirty working on motors, AND you are all 60 upwards, you are as close to heaven as you could be. R..... has such a store of know-how that there is literally nothing he cannot tell you about what makes engines tick, no matter their vintage, type, fuel supply and repair. So you have fingernails a bit dirty for a while afterwards (until you've done the washing-up couple times) but that's a tiny price to pay for a regular experience of technical exercise in a social atmosphere second to none. A mate of mine (not a small-engine freak) leads a photographic group and I'd really like to join it - in fact, two of the small-engines guys are also photo-group members - so perhaps the two pursuits have some mysterious commonality. Mowers, chainsaws, fire pumps, generators, brushcutters and the like are the stuff of dreams if it's 'you'.