Graham's Blog

Well its a fact now, Michael is retiring at the end of the 2006 season.

A stunning drive today, and there have been many over the years I have watched this sport.

But for me, he was one of the last bigger than life charactors left in he sport. Sadly in my view, thesedays with so much worry about safety and also drivers having to act like PR bill boards, a lot of the bright charactors have long since moved on or retired.

For so many sports now with these big budgets, its making the sport more dull, and Michael Schumacher was one of the last colorful drivers out there.

Full credit to him for not only the great victory today, but also in leaving at the top.

Motor Racing will be a far duller place next year for sure..

Good luck in clinching that 8th world champship before you go!

I have read in the Daily Mail, the sad news that Airfix has gone into recievership.

With the advent of the internet , playstations, xbox’s and satellite tv etc, it seems there are not enough out there buying there products to keep afloat.

Have many memories myself as I am sure many do, about growing up and buying one of these kits and spending hours putting them together, painting them and adding the decals etc.

I do think its a tad sad that , there is no intrest in putting together these at times highly fiddly pieces and the enjoyment of when they were all done and hanging from the ceilings or on the shelf.

I am sure also that a lot sat down with there parents and both got many hours or fun out of these, and also it was a time you spent with your dad or mum, doing something together.

Yes the world has moved on, but one does wonder how many now just go upstairs and plug in there playstations or dvd films, and are missing out with that bit of time that doing something like building a model used to bring.

This news is not just about a company making no profits going bust, but yet another sign that growing up glued to a screen or msn is what so many now do, and I feel personally that so many now miss out on the quality time we used to spend with real people.

Gosh I am getting old 😉

Take care all

Graham

If you are into tech, heres a couple of really fun and intresting podcast sites 🙂

DL.TV

Shall add some others later, I forgot the Url’s DOH 😉

“Hottest July in 92 Years
Any doubts that July was a real scorcher have been dispelled by the Met Office.

Figures show it was the hottest July – and the hottest month – since 1914.

The average night and day temperature in the UK in July was 17.8C (64.04F).

That compares with 17.3C (63.14F) set in July 1983 and August 1995.
It doesn’t get much better There has been speculation temperatures could be even higher in August.

But Met Office forecaster Nigel Bolton has ruled out the possibility.

He said: “We’ve probably had the highest temperature for the year.

“There is a warming trend for this weekend but we are not forecasting extreme temperatures.”

He said this week will be quite cool and showery, with temperatures around 23C (73.4F) and 24C (75.2F).”

Sky News.