Week Forty-One It’s Like We Just Begun.

THIS WEEK: Is completely bonkers, there is so much to tell you, I’m about to burst like the song bird in Shrek. Except I am ACTUALLY Shrek
Anyway, for one, we just had the last, biggest car and car audio show of the year, held in Ahoy, Rotterdam. A pan-European event, we saw a host of successes for our lads in the European Multi Media Association (EMMA) sound off finals. Just to get there they had to do brilliantly well all season in their classes to qualify for their places. We have my mates Mark Turner and Matt ‘˜thejoose’ Sprigg returning as champions but we’ll bring you more details later.
I can now publish faster with the new system you see before you and there are a lot of articles fully edited and transferred already on here, with the rest of the 880 different sets of stuff (written in the last three years) going ‘˜live’ in the archive (if that makes sense) as soon as I get a chance to get in and edit them all, since small adjustments will need to be made. I will deal with the reviews first, some categories of which are fully populated with labours thus far. The really cool thing is the plethora of fully illustrated pages I now get instead of mere wordy archive lists. It’s multiplied TA mag’s visible output by fifteen times!
The new forum software is up but assembling the last of the transferring codes and stuff took so much of Guru’s time last week that the ‘˜Week Forty’ editorial was posted here but never made it to the old site in time. We still got a good turn out at the Car Audio & Security SPL day that was run by Propper Droppers’ Marcos Barnes on Saturday and compered by my fat self, so that was alright.
But I have been a bit behind with what has been promised in the last few weeks. The reason is that the video will now be the last work-to-camera that my mum, Claire Rayner O.B.E. will have ever done as after a ridiculously hard fight against illness and being in and out of hospital since May, it looks like we will lose my mum today.

You will almost certainly be reading about her in the papers she may even make the news. I hope so, for a life well lived and simply for being the Best Mum in the World.
EDIT: My Mum died last night at ten past seven in the evening. The outpourings of love and sympathy and condolence have been really supportive. Thankyou so much.
Adam Rayner – Online Editor