God luck chaps!

The Red Bull Air Races come to London this weekend. Hopefully the weather will be good so that The Matadors can continue a great year:

Good luck chaps!

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RIAT

What a day! Rubbish traffic getting there - 3hrs queueing - yuk. Missed the F117 display and no B-52. The rest of the day was just brilliant though - pics by Pete

Highlights:

• P-51 & F-15 formation (seen from the car whilst queueing Grr


• Red Arrows - faultless and spectacular as always


• Frecce Tricalori - pristene


• Static display - if only it was open after the flying finished

Why don't they keep the static exhibits open after flying for at least an hour. Most folks don't want to miss the fying and don't want to get straight into the traffic chaos going out. Did I mention how crap the loos were? Can we please lose the Jetstream display, Blue Eagles army display (yawn) and Sea King? More Firefly, Jordanian Eagles, F-18 etc.

Now to get over the sun burn - ouch!

Looooserrrr!

Rats - 1hr 0mins 16secs. Pah - so close yet so far. I'll have to book up another race and not party the night before. It was a good night but not great race prep...

So on to photos of me waddling around and my cheerer in chief extraordinaire!

Race day

Saturday saw one of my slowest but most satisfying 10K runs as I took part in the July round of the Regents Park Summer 10K Series.

I posted exactly one hour according to the Garmin but I'm looking forward to seeing an official time under 1 hour. It won't matter hugely if it's a few seconds over but I did promise Kate (marathon supremo) and I did nearly mullerate myself with a sprint finish to get the sub-60 minute time so here's hoping!

More photos and official time to follow...

Brand new customers only

Frankly I hate the advert that invented the strap line but having just experienced a case of such a swindle I have to say Direct Line need a bloody good rocket - thieving ****s.

Having received another utterly hateful letter telling me that they had automatically renewed my home insurance policy at nearly three hundred quid I decided to check the current online prices. I do this with vehicle insurance too. The arrogance that they believe that I will just stay a customer of theirs without question or incentive is laughable!

Anyway, the online quote was over 100 quid less! WHAT! WHY! FFS! On the phone I received no meaningful explanation as to why I should not get the same deal as a new customer. Don't tell me 'the computer says no' - that's utter rubbish. The wankers are just out to swindle their loyal customers - a diminishing group surely...

So, if anyone knows where I can get in contact with Chris Moat, the direct Line MD I'd like to drop him a line so I can find out where the F**** these dirt bags get off. Not rich enough Mr. Moat?

Yeah, right.