Good start to holiday

Have had a really good weekend to start off my holiday. On Saturday we visited Scotts Grotto in Ware, Hertfordshire. This is a series of underground rooms decorated with flint and shells bought over on East India Trading Company ships as ballast. The grotto fell into disrepair but was rediscovered and restored to be opened to the public. The picture shows the entrance.

On Sunday we went to Brands Hatch for the BRSCC meeting which featured the Mazda MX5 single make series which gave us some really good racing with lots of close action and incidents.
A friend of my daughters was racing in his MX5 (the blue one in the picture on the left) and he won both his races which was a good result for a really great day.

Monday and Tuesday saw us getting the caravan ready for a few days away, my next post will be when we get back.

Holiday Time!

Thats it, i am now officially on holiday for two weeks. No more threading a 40 ft bus full of moaning passengers down overcrowded streets for me for the next 2 weeks.

Only going away for a few days the rest will be spent visiting local places and doing some DIY.

I am hoping to get a few more GeoCaches during my holiday and increase my rather poor total so far although it does include a few from France which I found during last years holiday.

If you dont know about geocaching the why not have a look at the website: www.geocaching.com where you can find out all about it. All you need is a GPS and as most smart phones have them built in most people can enjoy this fun pastime than ever before.

It all starts here

Ah, my first blog. Its a nice feeling when you are at the start of something, a train journey, a relationship, owning a new toy etc. Starting a new blog is just the same.

My day consisted of getting up at silly O'Clock (4:20am), going into work and driving a 40ft bus from my hometown in Harlow to Heathrow airport. The journey would normally take an hour but our convoluted route takes at least 3.

One thing about driving for a living is that you get a good idea of the standards of driving, and folks, it is bad out there. Drivers don't seem to be able to obey speed limits, stop sighns and no entry signs, they treat indication as optional and they don't seem to have any concept of the width of their car.
Subsequently I have to constantly use my driving skills to avoid their accidents.

I have been watching footage of the riots in various cities in the UK and I have to wonder where this country is going to, hopefully not down the drain.