Frosty

Outside looked almost magical this morning with frost covering nearly every surface. I would have enjoyed taking photographs because there were some very interesting patterns on car bonnets etc but that would have made me late for work. Bum.

Last of the season

In about twelve hours from now, twenty four Formula 1 cars will be burning up Interlagos race track, in Brazil, for the last race of the season.

The championships have already been decided a few races ago but somehow, F1 kind of needs Brazil. I love to watch the cars battling for position at this track and it can only get better if it's wet. (Just like a woman. (Thanks, Lou.))

Anyway, I've invited my best mate over to watch the last race. Reminds me of the time when we saw Lewis Hamilton win the 2008 title. Happy days.

It's been a while

I can't remember the last time I wrote something for this blog...
I'll have to sit down sometime soon and give this my full attention.

But not today ;)

Intermission

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Bollocks

Bollocks!

Rock n roll

Rock music should be played so loud that your ears bleed.

Proud

I hope you can read the newspaper text because I'm very proud of my mum (pictured on the right).


Both my mother and father were supposed to have retired to a small town down south but nothing seems to slow them down.

Home sweet home

It's been a long time coming but we finally moved into our new family home the weekend before last. It took the combined effort of family and friends to gather up all our possesions and relocate them a few streets away.

Everybody that could attend made a huge difference and all their help was truly appreciated. "Attend" makes it sound like a social function and even though there was work to be done, we all had a lot of fun. Same time next year? Not.

The boys finally have their own room. It's not massive, like our bedroom, but at least they have a space to call their own. And we can all enjoy the garden while the weather is still fine. It's great to be living on the ground floor again. No more stairs to climb with a mountain bike over my shoulder ever again. Two flights would leave us tired before we even entered our old home.

Anyway, we're all very happy here and settling in nicely. Updates as and when :)

Big Brother returns

As seems to be the case with my last few blogs, I'm writing about Big Brother a week or so after it returned to our screen.

But this time I did it on purpose. I wanted to give 5 (the channel that bought the show) a chance to get into it's own rythmn because even when it was on Channel 4, it took a little while for me to familiarise myself with each new set of housemates.


5's new Big Brother kicked off with "celebrities" entering the house. We have Kerry (Katona?), Darryn (mr paparazzi), Pamela (ex-the Hoff), Paddy (gypsy king), Amy (TOWIE), Bobby (model) and some others who escape me at present. Oh, and Jedward.

So far, so good.

As usual, in the first week, everbody is a nobody to me, with one or two exceptions, and it's not until the second week that I start to feel something for the housemates, whether it's pity or pleasure or who knows what?


In a few weeks, when the celebs have all been evicted, Big Brother proper shall begin, with the house being filled with regular housemates. I can hardly wait.

I (didn't) predict a riot

After a week of rioting, England is finally getting itself back on it's feet. It'll still take a long time to recover, though, as the country really took a savage beating over a prolonged period.




The majority of riots I've seen in the past have only lasted a few hours or a day or two at most and are usually confined to one or two localised areas. This was different.
It started, in Tottenham, as a protest to the death of a man, shot by police during an arrest gone bad and quickly became ground zero as, over the next couple of days, it spread across london to Enfield, Hackney, Lewisham, Ruislip etc.




And it became clear that London isn't a city that has exclusive rights to breed aggresive, sub-human thugs. It wasn't long before cities like Manchester, Nottingham and Liverpool joined the fray.




I'm not going to try and rationlise any of their behaviour because I wasn't there. But, for a country dragging itself out of recession, this isn't going to help one bit.