My Dolly Sprint was great for playing in snow covered carparks, the passat isnt though & I really miss a proper handbreak this electronic rubbish doesnt work for turns.

I never got to try the caterham in the snow, 5 years with no snow 🙁

And racing cars, I always like the gulf liveried cars

well ok, the last one is a mates car, not a racing car, it unfortunately came to an untimely end on the way back from Le Mans

King Crimson, damn, I havent heard of them for a while … time to listen to 21st century schizoid man & not the April Wine follow on version either.

yeh, twice I stopped overnight, dont think I meant to heave to but the damn boat managed it all on its own… it does cock up the overall finishing position … well thats my excuse & I am sticking to it.

Also managed to hit Taiwan for a while.

I need somebody to watch the boat at weekends & overnight when I have other things to be doing … oh well, I do enjoy it really

Its been the genny all the time this leg as far as I am concerned … I may get to use the light spinaker as I head for port (hopefully) this weekend.

So probably not.

Must be why the leaders have made port & I haven’t I suppose

Last time this happened to me the bank wanted my old card back, destroyed & gave me a new one different numbers etc. No probs getting money back. If they dont offer then ask for it

I have just finished a few books on the first round the world yaght race (look up Robin Knox-Johnston as a start) 3 or 4 books that all intertwine Motissier etc. Mad as a boat load of frogs, all of them

There is always the aftercare 🙂

I had a couple of guys staying with me once (one a MTB mag editor) & one of them managed a fall at the top of a piste & went all the way down on his face, narrowly missing a few trees, he thought his time had come.

It took about 6 beers to stop him shakeing the night went down hill from there 🙂

2nd test !!!! It took me about 6 & about 10 months & yes I was working at it as hard as possible (so was the misses :-)) …for gods sake dont let her come off the pill etc yet or its back to rubber mac’s bloody horrible things

GrahamS, that I cant answer, mainly it was people falling & breaking vital stuff on the way down while still being thrown around. You are right as well the feeling of invincibility of a helmet may make it worse.

I spent a season in LDA & know people who did a good few more. There are a fair number of deaths in the mountains over a season, if not hushed up then actively kept quiet. There was a “super black there” actually it was fine, but was steep enough to slide all the way down if you fell at the top & was south facing so had a tendancy to be very icy at times. I know for a fact the year I was there there were 4 deaths on that run alone. If a helmet reduces the risk why not, and as stated above I imagine they do keep your head warm.

Do I wear a helmet? No, I have been skiing since the age of 6 (in the Lebanon) & am now 43 so have a fair amount of experience & am a damn sight slower now than I was 10-15 years ago, however I do ensure that my kids wear them all the time, they are just learning.
I am very seriously thinking of getting a helmet for me next time I go … the problem of course is one of ego … I dont think I do anything scary, fast of radical these days ….. saying that one of the worst incidents I was at was at 0 mph when a mate was stopped at the side of the slope & another mate slipped into him at about 2 mph, at the time the medics all thought it was a broken neck (luckily it wasnt), so as with a bike it can happen through no fault of your own at a time you do not think you are at risk.

If you have no ego hangups then wear one, it will not do any harm & may do lots of good.

PS plyons are hard & I do know of people who have somehow managed to get their heads through a gap in the padding, they died there & then.

Wait for the bruising to come through, awesome & makes the SO feel guilty 🙂

TBH I used it as a good excuse to sit on the sofa for a weekend & watch the 6 Nations

Made me cry reading it in real time, still does every time I read it. Blu-tone is a comedy legend. I guess it either works for you or doesnt.

Mind you my funniest film moment is Dumb & Dumber with the toilet scene, so it probably doesnt say much for my sense of humour 😀

REM, Coldplay, Eric Clapton too, although not a band … should have given up long ago. 461 Ocean Boulevard …awesome …. August, nononono

Cap’n, thats what we figured

The one that gets to me everytime is when I ask for her car keys & the answer “they are in my handbag”

How does that help? Her handbag can be anywhere.

… because they have help from the voices in their heads!

Oh yes, the camembert in its box … fantastic when you dunk either French Bread or cheesy nacho’s in.

There is a rumour, apparently called scientific fact that a womans brain works differently.
Personaly I always try to put things in the same place, that way I know where they are. Women are supposed to be more visual so putting things down in random places were there is an empty space doesnt stress them out.

Odd really …. IT DOES MY HEAD IN!!!!

Caterham 7 … strap them to the roll bar

http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/play.php

Y-H, the actual volvo racers appear to be doing just that

Haha M0nster, was my “flotsam” that bad 🙂

Nice one sharkbait …. you will be sipping G&T while the rest of us are wallowing about on the Oggin 🙂

Infact I may just “flush the head” get rid of all that unwanted weight …. so sorry if your boat gets a bit mucky 😆

I may tack

Monster, are you following me … your boat is right up my chuff!

Carbon, I tried to add you as a friend (there is the whole STW fleet out there) but coulnt find you under Risk Sailing

I am The Pink Panther, have just caught up 257 places.

Its the second time this leg that has happened … last time was 88k places …but that was very early on so all were much closer.

Oh well, its just a game.

PS is fairly close to The Lookout/Swinley Forest if you co happen to fit your bike in the car

Wellington Country Park, just outside Reading. It even has dinosaurs!

My understanding is that a points system has to be employed so that if they are taken to a tribunal they can prove a “fair” process has been followed. However I think that they can pick the point scoring devices to achieve what they want so they can be very biased.

It would be worth looking into further though, if your scores on the points being used are not correct (or the other person has been given higher for no real reason) then you may have a case.

The comments above seem to confirm my thouhgts & the fact that Max Hastings didnt mention him …

Oh yeh, another RAF Brat here too … or scaley brat as we are officially known

Boblo

mine is geoff(at)imnotthealien.co.uk

I have memory map but not garmin stuff

Hmmm, head off to look for *ahem” sources

Cheers 😆

BOAS you must live close to me, I have somebody who does that too, about 23.00 normally.

Its ok though. Come summertime, when people leave windows open, I plan to take my diesel round to just outside their house & leave the engine running to fill their house up with fumes before they get up …. midday should do nicely 🙂

Yeh, pants 🙁

The roady ones arent too bad & as I live in the South I can never get more than about a mile from a road, so they may have to do.

£149.99 thats too much… far far too much

Ar5e. Cue grumpy face for an hour or two