F1 2017 Round 8: The Azerbaijan Grand Prix

For the second time Formula 1 cars will navigate the contrasting city of Baku, which last year hosted the European Grand Prix, and this year hosts the first Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Modern buildings exist alongside ancient castles and F1 cars will race down long, wide roads and snake between the relics of the ancient world, […]

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Comfortable Canada – the 2017 Canadian Grand Prix

Round 7 of the 2017 season is done and dusted, with one pretty strong comeback, one easy win, and a team that cost itself points. Oh yeah, and Fernando Alonso was back in an F1 car following his Indy adventure. Was it a good race? Yeah, reasonably so. Did it have some interesting subplots? Yep. […]

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Well Well Well…

So, after banking on a sure-fire win, the Tories are left reeling from a Labour revolt that’s stunned the nation and sent a very clear message to the people in power – don’t ignore us. The Tories lost 12 seats, whilst Labour gained 29 – a clear swing toward the opposition. In fact, it left us […]

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F1 2017 Round 7 – Canada

Welcome to one of F1’s best-loved venues. The Canadian Grand Prix is held in spectacular scenery and the atmosphere tends to be one of the most exciting, whilst the high-speed track with several fast, slippery corners usually makes for some dramatic and exciting racing. The track, named after the late, great, Giles Villeneuve, should provide […]

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Site Stats!

It’s been a while since I’ve done this, and I know you are trembling with anticipation, having waited so patiently. Here is the latest round of exciting site statistics! Ok, so maybe it’s not that exciting, but here goes anyway… I’ve noticed a bit of a trend in 2017. My Star Trek vs Star Wars […]

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Oh Nintendo…

I think this sums up how a lot of Switch owners feel, given Nintendo’s Pokemon announcement earlier today… I mean, come on. The Switch is the perfect platform for Pokemon, and not the stadium games, but the actual, proper, ‘gotta catch ’em all’ games. Instead, Nintendo are re-releasing previous versions on the 3DS… I mean… […]

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Raaaaaaaaaiiiin 

It’s June, we are officially in Summer, and what do we have? Rain. Lots of it too. It’s torrential and it’s terrible – what happened to the sunshine?!  Nothing but rain clouds makes meerkats unhappy!

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Trump the Dump

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/ https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm The three above links represent just the tip of (an ever-shrinking one, if this carries on) iceberg from experts and scientists from around the world, who all agree that man-made climate change is real. From the NASA link: The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely […]

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Looking for Focus

One of the things I would dearly love to do is write a proper novel, be it historical, sci-fi, action, drama – I’d love to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and produce something worthy of being published. The trouble is, I know myself, and I am my own worst enemy in these […]

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