I got a question about what’s changing in the rules for the 2011 season. I’ve said before that I believe F1 is first and foremost an engineering exercise (actually first and foremost it’s about money, but I choose to ignore that for now), but no one buys Ross Brawn or Adrian Newey T–shirts and baseball caps. The rules are broken down into two sections, Sporting…
Six weeks to Dubai…
It’s only day one of the first test of the year and really means nothing, but Vettel is top of the timesheets in the new Red Bull and by a little distance. Force India had a good showing, Ferrari were not much off the pace (but was reliable, Alonso did 98 laps today, but Ferraris Twitter feed is so boring) and Mercedes had issues and…
A little project…
What Last fall at BlogWorld I met Drew Bennet, he was leading a session about different forms of media, it was very interesting and informative. One of the things he has done is publish a picture on his blog everyday for years, he is now at well over 2000 photos. I’m not going to promise thousands of photos, but I’d like to try it for…
Old and new at Heathrow
Not sure when the last time I travelled through terminal-3 at Heathrow was. I’m sure it’s been quite a while. In comparison to the new T-5, T-3 is a tight, claustrophobic shopping mall under renovation with seats shoehorned into every space. This is the T-3 departures lounge today, on what I was told was a quiet day. T-3 was first opened in 1961 as the…
It’s still really hard
I’ve talked a number of times about being without mum and how difficult that transition been. I spent a little time today at the garden of remembrance at Guildford crematorium where her ashes are spread. I got some flowers and after spending a couple of hours with dad in the Royal Surrey I was probably not in the best frame of mind for it, but…
The High Street in daylight
Wandering along Guildford High street this morning, heading to the book store if you are interested, and looked up the High Street. It really is a wonderful view, for a start the cobbled high street goes back at least a couple of thousand years to the Roman, and probably a lot longer. Live music, a little history and a couple of good book shops. Really…
A little more art today.
A crowd collecting around a couple of Barnett Newman painting at the Tate this afternoon. Taking a tour with one of the curators really does add, I now have a clue what “chromatic structure” and “generated tension” in a painting means. It was a very interesting to kill a morning before visiting hours start at the RSCH.
Fourth Plinth
In Trafalgar Square Nelson is currently looking down at the bottled replica of his flagship HMS Victory from atop his column. There are four large plinths in Trafalgar Square, three of them are occupied by George IV, Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier. The fourth plinth has been filled by a rotating list of new public art. Yinka Shonibare’s “Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle” currently fills…
Seattle has the Space Needle…
I spent a couple of hours at the UK head office on the South coast of England. It was awfully cold with the wind coming off the Solent, but a very productive visit. This is the Spinnaker. The closest analogy I can come up with is that it’s Portsmouth’s version of the Space Needle in Seattle, just with no restaurant at the top. Both have…
Another big discovery!!!
Last night I went to Tesco to grab some food, and these jumped out from the shelf into my shopping basket. No only Jaffa cakes (with the smashing orangy bit), but dark chocolate Jaffa cakes!!! I get that for those of you living in the UK this may be no big deal, but it was for me. I got a little excited about these and…