Katydid

Apparently our green friend is a katydid, pterophylla camellifolia. He was making his way across our back porch on Saturday late evening so being good parents, wanting to teach Jay, we caught him and put him in a jar for the following morning when we let him go on the front porch and followed his […]

Bugger off and let me wash my feet in peace. 

Bugger off and let me wash my feet in peace. 

Leptophyes punctatissima perhaps? 

Leptophyes punctatissima perhaps? 

At the beach 

At the beach 

Hmmn, not that cold. 

Hmmn, not that cold. 

Summer barbecues 

Summer barbecues 

Easy riding - going for a ride on Craig’s Harley…

Easy riding - going for a ride on Craig’s Harley
 

Still deliberating

I am in quasi-mourning over yesterday’s race and am still trying to formulate what happening to Renault, therefore my usual post-race blatherings are going to wait until I am in a more positive mood about the results. The results, posted below, tell all that needs to be told though…
On the other hand I am most […]

Get on with it! Pre-race build-up

I think we’re in for a good weekend at Hockenheim. Home country of Schumacher, Alonso still fighting him off, tensions ablaze, temperatures hot and humid much like the atmosphere on the track. Isn’t this why we watch Formula 1? The excitement and thrill. Oh and maybe, just a small contributing factor, because of the ultra […]

Pilsner and brats at Hockenheim (or reflections of things past)

I am in the downward spiral at the moment of reflecting a lot on opportunities missed. Options that presented themselves in the past and I never took. And not that I regret this, at least I’m trying not to because it’ll drive me crazy and essentially it’s up to me to create favourable situations in […]

Html CSS Hfgo Gty F$%k

Bloody technology! Sometimes I amaze myself at my stupidity. So I updated my template - again - yes, yes, I know, but it’s a bit addictive and I thought the last one was a bit hard to read, and stupidly, very stupidly forgot that when I update the template it wipes out any changes, etc […]

Finally - balls in F1

I just finished reading July’s edition of F1 Racing magazine and finally, someone has said something about Schumacher’s stunt in Monaco. Hello, did I not say something back in May about how unacceptable it was? Anyway F1 mag ran a big article and cited all the wierd (and dangerous) moves that Schumacher has pulled […]

You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet y…

You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet your prince… 

Hangin’ out with the gorilla 

Hangin’ out with the gorilla 

Sunday morning at the zoo 

Sunday morning at the zoo 

Go Warriors

Warriors, get to it!
Show your stuff
Get moving, get hustling, get mean, get tough.
Gooooo Warriors!
The Warriors (American) football cheer from Centarus High School, Denver, CO. For some strange reason Keith remembers this very well. Thought it appropriate as I attach a most amusing picture of Keith at 17/18 years old at the graduation of one of […]

Yeaaaaaaah 

Yeaaaaaaah 

Bringing on the heartbreak

Bringing on the heartbreak

Let’s rock & roll

Let’s rock & roll

Jay’s Top Ten

Jay’s Top Ten songs, well, twelve really, based on dancing and air drumming response. Heavily influenced as you can see by what gets played in mummy’s car on the way to school/work. Anything by Def Lepard is enjoyed due to the huge potential for air drumming and air guitar. The new John Meyer song and […]

Sprinkler fun

Sprinkler fun

The egg

The egg

Concentration for Renault no.1 driver 2024

Concentration for Renault no.1 driver 2024

Alonso ain’t got nothing on me

Alonso ain’t got nothing on me

In the year 2024

So I was downloading the pictures from my camera and was in the process of editing and naming them as I always do and one of the photos, shown above, of Jay in the racecar simulator I titled Renault…2024. Jay will be twenty in 2024. It wasn’t the fact that he’ll be twenty. I can’t […]

Running off all that sugar with cousin Logan

Running off all that sugar with cousin Logan

In the water at the zoo

In the water at the zoo

Ice-cream Zoolander - because I’m really, really, …

Ice-cream Zoolander - because I’m really, really, ridiculously good-looking…

Wild Things

Wild Things

All aboard to crazy town - Keith, Wendy, Al while …

All aboard to crazy town - Keith, Wendy, Al while the bored teenagers pretend not to know their family - Lane & Logan

They’re just ibis

They’re just ibis

Zoo? Whatever, totally missing the racing.

Zoo? Whatever, totally missing the racing.

Er, hello, Fisico?

Sixth place? Are you kidding me Giancarlo? So Fisi’s qualifying was pretty so-so and even though he did manage to move up one place from seventh to sixth during the French Grand Prix, he’s just not using the Renault to its best capabilities. He’s a good driver and he has a good car - let’s […]

Magny-Cours v. um, I don’t know any Nascar racetracks

So, I have almost converted Jay from his love of Nascar to Formula 1. Apparently it takes more than actually going to see Formula 1 cars and Michael Schumacher in person for a two year old to be convinced. I am under the impression however that his Nascar obsession is due partly to a little […]

Cracking Code

As some of you may have noticed there have been many changes, odd publishing and some darn strange editing and formatting going on over the past forty-eight hours to the blogsite. I am in the process of learning html, css and FrontPage and so my poor blog has become el guinea pig. As you can […]

A little something

This was something I did entirely unconsciously. Obviously in my excitement I put my camera into video mode rather than picture mode. I don’t think I could have tried to capture this otherwise. Michael Schumacher is in the lead position with his Ferrari team mate, Felipe Massa right behind him. They are coming up from […]

Team Renault - Happy Fans

Team Renault - Happy Fans

Ferraris - victory lap / Fisi - post race lap …

Ferraris - victory lap / Fisi - post race lap

Racer boys & racer babe

Racer boys & racer babe

Final Results from the US F1 Grand Prix 2006 at Indianapolis Speedway

1. M. Schumacher (Ferrari)
2. F.Massa (Ferrari)
3. G.Fisichella (Renault)
4. J.Trulli (Toyota)
5. F.Alonso (Renault)
6. R.Barichello (Honda)
7. D.Coulthard (Red Bull)
8. V.Liuzzi (Toro Rosso)
9. N.Rosberg (Williams)

What?They’re loud papa

What?

They’re loud papa

Giancarlo Fisichella, Fernando Alonso

Giancarlo Fisichella, Fernando Alonso

Michael Schumacher, Felipe Massa

Michael Schumacher, Felipe Massa

Fisico Fans

Fisico Fans

Team Schreiber (supporting Renault & Maclaren)

Team Schreiber (supporting Renault & Maclaren)

Possibly the best day of my life…

An amazingly busy weekend – we celebrated Keith’s birthday on Saturday with friends round for a barbecue and drinks. It must have been a great party because both Keith and I woke up the next day with hangovers, something neither of us have done for a while. I was on g & ts which I […]