Every January, Doug “dawg” Shuler would post one word to the old ALMS forum: SEEEEEEBBRRRIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!! With that briefest of reads, the winter’s cold and snow and the shitty xmas presents of socks and boxers and neckties are immediately forgotten and the nose imagines the scent of orange blossoms over synthetic oil, strip steaks grilling at Vanessa’s, and tyre rubber chunking in turn one.