50+ and proud of it.

Easy one this - " Webber Airborne ". Most interesting part? Michael Schumacher telling Eddie Jordan to sod off during the grid walk. And, did anyone notice Webber taking out the DHL sign? ...well, it makes a change for someone to break something of DHL's instead.

What a bloody palaver! I've finally got back the Power Of Attorney from the Office Of The Public Guardian. This has taken weeks & weeks. A bit of background - POA gives you the legal right to take control of someones finances etc if you believe they are no longer capable of doing it themselves. That said person needed to have signed a POA in the first place (when they weren't barking mad) and when you as an "attorney" decide the time is right, you have to cough up £125 so some court or other in Birmingham to "register" (ie turn on) the POA. I went to Mom's bank today. "Hello, I want to register this POA on my Mom's account, I'm here but the other attorney is in Brazil at the moment." "What's that then?" "Um, it's a Power Of Attorney ?" "Oh, I'll get someone else" Eventually they find Gundip (nice bloke, has a degree from Liverpool Uni it turns out) who starts the ball rolling. " Questio

At last, something half-interesting. Several "two-worders" sprang to mind this time - "Very Good", "Tyre Choice", and "Very Close". However, I shamelessly settled on "One-Two" (again). Most interesting parts? Hamilton & Alonso making friends in the pit lane... ...and Schumacher not being penalised for his incident whereas the other drivers all got, err, spoken to. So no partisan behaviour there then.

I am bloody mad. Madder than a mad box of frogs on Mad Sunday. Why? I've just had run in with my intransigent boss. I can't even begin to explain, but we've just moved offices (without consultation I might add) and the final email of a long shouting match ended up with "you will sit there in front of the new guy so you can talk to him, you'll be more efficient then". (My boss is located over 200 miles away). You mean, sit under the air-conditioning unit so that cold air goes down my neck? You mean, sit in front of the window so I can't see my screen due to glare? You mean, sit at the desk with a set of drawers that you can only get a pencil and ruler in? You mean leave the nice desk with the large drawers in the corner free as a "hot-desk" so that you can visit every 6 weeks or so? Apparently, yes. The answers were "draw the blinds" and "turn off the air-pack". There are four other people in the office, so, obviously their co

I was mindlessly staring into the goldfish pond today and noticed the slightly fatter goldfish being harassed and chased by the other two. They did some strange stuff that I'd never seen before - weaving in and out of the plants and even breaking the surface of the pond at some point, and rolling from side to side. It then dawned on me. She was of course spawning and the other two were desperate "to get in first". Wondering why I had my head stuck in a goldfish pond, my wife came out to join me. She took one look at the commotion and shouted "Leave her alone!". TBH, I'm still not sure to whom this was directed, me or the fish. After it had all settled down and the two males swam off for a post-coital cigarette, I took a long hard look at the plants hoping to find the goldfish equivalent of a lump of frog-spawn. What surprised me was that almost every single stem had one or two 0.8mm-sized eggs attached to them and therefore the eggs were spread out of a larg