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Inner Peace

If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

If you can relax without alcohol,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

Then……………..

You Are Probably The Family Dog!

Teach Them How To Use Their Brakes and Gears

Closing a road just because the folks speed downhill seems a bit extreme especially for the folks who live on this road. Will they be getting a reduction in their council tax to compensate for the additional mileage they will incur.

And then consider that blocking a road just forces the traffic onto other roads, creating rat runs.

The sensible thing is to create traffic calming and force drivers to use their brakes and gears.

People pressure forces U-turn on planned closure of Portsmouth road – Politics – The News.

Don Manning – RIP

Don is my friends Dad who sadly passed away on the morning of Monday, 1st August.

My thoughts are with his family, his wife Babs and his sons John and Steve, during this difficult time.

Thick As A Brick

I’m in Prog Rock heaven as RP plays Jethro Tulls “Thick As A Brick” in its entirety.

This was JTs latest album the last time I saw them live, Portsmouth Guildhall. Complete with indian teepee’s on stage and folks dressed in jockeys silks running through the audience that would have been around 1972. Pure theatre and bloody marvellous.

The Pub With No Staff – Only In England

” ……
But there’s nothin’ so lonesome, so dull or so drear
Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer”

We’ve all heard the song about the pub with no beer. Well let me introduce you to the pub with no staff….!!!

Apparently the much troubled Perseverance has managed to get itself into the press, yet again. This time it’s because the landlord and staff abandoned the establishment last Friday night at about 20:30. Left it in the more than capable hands of its customers who set about maintaining the flow of beer. And of course, in this modern era, word spread like wildfire and the Percy soon had more customers than normal for a Friday evening.

To be fair the landlord thought he had left the pub in the hands of the barmaid while he toured the establishments of the towns competition. She obviously thought different and left with the takings from the till. The thirsty customers then took control with up to six of them serving behind the bar at one time.

Only in England !!!

Customers helped themselves to booze in Havant pub with no staff – East Hampshire – The News.

View From The Conservatory

Actually its more like Sounds From The Conservatory.

I don’t know what they are doing over there on the roundabout beyond the trees. What it sounds like is a bike meet where the max engine size is 50cc. If you could imagine Spinal Tap doing an impression of 1000 hornets turned up to 11 then you have some idea of the noise that has been permeating the airwaves for the last hour or so.

Hopefully they will get it out of their system soon.

Highway 61 – Whoohoo !!!

I’m currently grooving down on Highway 61 with Dave Alvin courtesy of Radio Paradise.

There aint no speed cops down there on Highway 61.

What A Race – Go Maclaren

Formula 1 just keeps on delivering this season. Not only have the new tyre options made for exciting races but the weather at a number of circuits has turned everything on its head. From the very start of Sundays race at the Hungaroring we could see the signs that this was going to be no ordinary race. The cars were very twitchy with all drivers finding it hard to maintain the racing line. Despite that we were presented with Hamilton and Button racing each other, side by side. By Lap 5 Hamilton has passed Vettel and is leading the race which with 65 more laps continued to provide excitement for the fans with spins, overshoots, overtaking, exploding cars andand cocked up strategy making for a nail-biting finish.

Vettel has taken over from Schumacher, for me, as the target for any ill luck that I can wish on him. He has had such a charmed run from the beginning of the season that anyone who manages to pass him is my hero. Every mistake he makes ellicits a cheer from my me and I don’t really care who beats him so long as it isn’t Alonso although at a pinch I would even cheer him if he managed to keep Vettel out of the higher points.

There is an element of national pride driving me but to be really honest so long as there is a union jack on the podium I don’t care, even if it’s the one on the Australian flag for Mark Webber. And look at DiResta go. Given luck, a reliable competitive ride and there will be another driver from the British Isles to harass Vettel.

Now they are off for an enforced break we will just have to bide our time but all the indicators are that the second half of the season is going to be a cracker.

Hamilton and Button are seriously focussed on stopping Vettel from taking the championship and Maclaren have shown that they have the cars to stop the Red Bull machine in its tracks if they can just maintain the momentum shown on Sunday.

Lets not forget that congratulations are due also to Jenson Button for winning his 200th Grand Prix on the circuit on which he won his very first Grand Prix. What a moment to savour.