What has happened to British Sport?

Well the Ashes have started and it already looks like the poor form for English sport is continuing... The football team failed to live up to all the hope and hype - they still can't take penalties - you would have thought they would have learnt. And they played their best when down to 10 men because the "wonder boy" was sent off - and we never got to see the youngster that meant we where a striker short! Then the rugby team has been dismal - 7 straight losses and the victory that saved them from a record wasn't convincing against a SA side that left almost another experience team at hope to blood the youngster they are going to the world cup with... In F1 the highlights for the British was the perennual under performer Button finally one a race, and the old timer Coulthard manage to drag himself around just in front of the no hopers! I'm not sure how much it says about our Tennis players that a good new prospect is the highlight of the year in the area we host what many consider the most important annual contest. I really think we missed a trick - most of these sports come from the British Empire - we simply shouldn't have told everyone else all the rules - that is the way the US do it - no one outside the US can work out American Football - and for baseball they have a world series, but only invite the Canadians from the rest of the world to take part!

F1 Gods Favour the red car - at least one of them

Well last race it was the F1 official gods that favoured the red car to keep the championship alive - today it appears it was the weather and tyre gods that did it without official intervention. It was a great race - maybe they need to introduce sprinklers to all F1 tracks to randomly introduce dampness. There haven't been that many over taking manoeuvres in a single race for as long as I can remember. And this is a good excuse for a picture. A rather old one of Button's car - British GP 2000 - he ended in the gravel rather than putting others in the gravel as he did today...

Button's Car being recovered from the Gravel (British GP 2000)

Apr 22, 2000 - 1 Photo

Two posts in a day - maybe I'll manage to keep producing random thought to contribute to web 2.0

The rubbish we accumulate

I have a policy when I move that any thing that I haven't used since last time I moved get dumped without too much thought - but having avoided moving for six years my nice central, but inevitably small flat just can't wait for that - so the compactor has been busy and there are half a dozen bags for charity shops... but the flat does feel a little less small. I did warn you that this was a selection of random thoughts :-)

About time too

Well, given I've been using the Internet since it began and supporting others publishing content on it I thought it was about time I contributed. Not that I currently have a lot creative to contribute... I've also uploaded a few pictures to PicasaWeb - anyone that finds them and has some feed back that would be great. Lots more where they came from. Two blogs that have inspired me are The Land of Bob and Lushie on Tour There is a distinct possibility that this will be the first and last posting here...