A Caterham Seven Blog

  • 200,000 YouTube Views!

    200,000 YouTube Views!

    So I haven’t posted a great deal on here recently… As some of you may have noticed we’ve not been able to get out much, and that has affected what I’ve been able to do with the car.  As we sit here today, in March of 2021, the car actually has no MOT and is…

  • Site Move

    Site Move

    Just a quicky to say that I moved away from the hosting service that this website has been running on for the past few years. It’s now hosted on AWS using Lightsail. Let me know if you see any glitches with the site and I’ll take a look.  Hopefully it should be a lot faster…

  • YouTube Novice Trackday

    YouTube Novice Trackday

    Today I finally got to posting my 2018 and 2019 track day experiences as a YouTube video. I’d recorded quite a lot of video at the Rockingham 2018 L7C Novices Trackday, but hadn’t got around to turning it into something fit to be published. After the unexpected success of the build video I was looking…

  • Purplemeanie on The Express Website

    Purplemeanie on The Express Website

    A quick post to say I got a mention in an article posted to the Express Website: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1362578/classic-kit-car-restoration-vehicle-build-garage The journalist, Luke Chillingsworth, had spotted my build video on YouTube and contacted me for a few comments. The conversation resulted in the article. Here’s a couple of shots from the article.

  • Purplemeanie Site Theme Update

    Purplemeanie Site Theme Update

    After 3 years of using one of WordPress’ older themes, I thought I’d give a newer theme a whirl. From today I’ve switch to the Twenty Twenty theme which is much more mobile friendly and has an integrated search function.  Search Probably the biggest win from this update is the inclusion of an integrated search…

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