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Mario Kart Wii... just awesome! :-)

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You're on the train, using your laptop, and nature calls. Do you take the laptop with you to the toilet, leave it in the bag at your seat, ask the person next to you to watch it...?

lol!

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Do you have 6 grand kicking around and are you seriously handy with the spanners?

Could be fun...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2007-MAZDA-6-MPS-RED_W0QQitemZ220193412234QQihZ012...

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Normally it's plasma displays with Windows error dialogues, but this time it was the iPhone mega display at the O2 store with an OSX popup in the middle of it... genius! :D

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Here's something I found out recently and didn't know!

All cars (apparently) have a little arrow next to the fuel indicator on the dashboard, showing which side the petrol cap is. Here's a pic of the dash on ours, sure enough there's an arrow and the cap is on the left.

Neato if you drive different cars frequently!

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This 'Shaky Jake', in Tim's honour, goes to prove that the French can do it just as good as us brits. :-D

Picture snapped in Auchan Hypermarket, France, last week!

'Phillipe, we only have 20 euros, and we need biere! Do we buy the clothes for petit Claude? NON! C'est 1664, mon amie...' :D

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First up a confession. England football doesn't generally interest me (i'd rather see Arsenal playing), Rugby holds no interest and F1 just hasn't been worth watching until recently.

But this week, what a disaster for English sport. England lose at football, lose at rugby, but then Lewis Hamilton fails to win the F1 title. Argh! :(

We watched the race in China (well, we watched it in Norfolk but the race was in China!) and - like most English viewers I suspect - yelled at the TV when Mclaren failed to bring Hamilton into the pits and he subsequently ended up in the gravel trap on entry to the pit line. That then meant the title race went to the last race of the season, today in Brazil, with Alonso and Raikkonen also vying for the crown. It's fair to say that mechanical failure is probably what cost Hamilton dear today, but to see his needless attempt to re-pass Alonso on the first lap tested the resolve of an English viewer to the limit. Unnecessary, and whether that manouevre contributed to the problem with his car, who knows... but the race was doomed from then on.

So why am I blogging? I dunno, frustration I suppose. If I had to pick whether the England football team (a bunch of over-egoed players who will never perform to the sum of their parts) qualified for the European championships, England won the rugby world cup or Lewis Hamilton won the F1 championship, I would certaoinly have picked the latter. It wasn't to be, so I just need to vent my frustration. And that's what a blog is for. :D

On the plus side though, F1 now holds my interest like it hasn't since the 80s where I used to watch the races on a Sunday with my dad in the living room with the curtains drawn... fond memories indeed. Incidentally, Lucie 'watched' the race today with a bowl of popcorn. She's also watched BTCC before with me, she'll soon be hooked ;)

I look forward to next season!

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Nokia buying Navteq and TomTom buying Teleatlas?

Interesting times...

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This is a bit morbid innit! :D

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When we were in Bruges, we walked past a Cafe that had a cat in the window. Hygienic I know (NOT!), but the cat was very cute and liked to play at the window with passers by.

I'm a cat person in case you can't tell ;)

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