50+ and proud of it.

As you all know, there's something a bit odd about the Amy Pond character in the latest series of Doctor Who - like she doesn't know who The Daleks are and the like. We all know that "Torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who" and Russell T. Davies threw in "Bad Wolf" throughout the earlier episodes, so I thought it would be a bit of fun to run "Amy Pond" through my anagram solver... Amy Pond = Mad Pony... Amelia Pond = Dope Animal, Impala Done, Opal Maiden... Oh, there are hundreds more, including "Apian Model", so, when there's an episode about killer bees, remember, you saw it here first!

Where to begin? Let's start with the Astra - 100k miles on the engine and a while ago it started leaking oil. "Hello sir, you're leaking oil, we need to look at it." "Ok" "Well, we've looked at it and we think it's coming from the main oil seal. But don't worry we've checked for ring blow-by and that's fine so we'd like to charge you £700 to fix it." "Ok" "Here's you car back sir, that'll be £700." "Ok, I notice that it still leaking oil from the same place." "Well, we need to look at it." "Ok" "Well we've looked at it and we think it's coming from the sump gasket." "It that the same sump gasket you replaced a while ago?" "Ah, well that was over a year ago and Vauxhall only guarantee a year yada yada yada, and it might be blow by." "Is this the same blow-by that you said was fine last August when all this lot kicked off? L...

Hmm, I think " interestingly wet " sums this one up. Made much better by the fact the Jensen won with Lewis second. Most interesting part? Possibly all the shenanigans in the pits. "You can't overtake in the entrance to the pits!" "Just watch me..." and "You move over!" "No, you move over!" "I really think you should move over." "I'm the pit wall, your call."

Hmpf. It's my birthday today, not a significant one mind but a birthday nonetheless - and still miles away from a bus pass. My wife recently suggested that I take one of my oldest friends to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford as we've been "meaning to go" for about three years. He's a mine of information, particularly about WWII and good company to boot. So, yesterday, we took the roadster up the M11. We got to the entrance and waited in line. "Two please" The lady took a long hard look at me. "Are you concession?" My mate was still laughing at lunchtime.

Well, the only thing I can say about this is " boringly dry ". It had all the makings of a great race after qualifying and promises of "it always rains at 5:00pm" and the like, but it failed to deliver. Most interesting part? Ferrari and McLaren getting Q1 wrong.