Thursday February 26, 2009

Has a deal been done?

Today we have learnt that the old Honda team have been told to prepare for a test in Spain next month. So the rumours are that a management buyout led by Ross Brawn has been accepted by the Honda management. The new unamed team will use Mercedez Benz engines. In other F1 news an American F1 team was launched in the US yesterday and will appear on the grid in 2010.

Was it really that bad ?

I was talking to the students about the men's aftershave/deodorant called Hai Karate yesterday. I even bought a bottle of the stuff years ago and was a bit annoyed that wearing it did not reproduce the same effect as you saw on the advert. Anyway I looked on YouTube for the advert and yes it was as bad as you may remember it - Be careful how you use it...

The allotment queue...

It has been reported today that 150,000 people in the UK are waiting for an allotment. For those outside the UK an allotment is a piece of land you rent from your local council or in my case church on which you can grow your own vegetables. I know from the large allotment site down the road from me that allotments are more popular than ever before as the unused plots on that site have shrunk to zero over the years. So a scheme called garden share already setup in some counties of the UK which encourages those with gardens who don't have the time/knowledge to use that space to grow vegetables to share them with those waiting for a plot is going to be rolled out nationwide. It sounds like a great idea.