Colour supplement

Sunday, Sunday, here again. So soon. I have to say that I have been so busy recently that this week has flown by. This has to be a good thing. Mrs J has been in Miami for four weeks now. In just under three weeks, my wife will be home. I hope the next three weeks pass as quickly as this one did.

Since I last blogged, construction work has commenced at Johnsy Towers. I say ‘construction’, given that to date this has involved digging a large hole just outside the main entrance and half-filling said aperture with cement and removing the shelter that once protruded from the front of the building: perhaps I should have said ‘destruction’. Progress could best be described as slow. In the original scheme of things, the ~~Porsche~~ porch was meant to be built by now. I don’t expect that the cement will be long dry by the time my wife returns.

On Tuesday night, of course, I was up at Piccadilly Circus with long-time chum James Casey, whom I bumped into by chance while awaiting a cancelled train at East Croydon Station. We made our way up to the City to join a reported half-a-million other people watching the spectacle that was Formula 1 Comes to Regent Street. From our position, we got to see six out of the eight drivers. These were:

Nigel Mansell in the Jordan
Cristiano da Matta in the Toyota
Luca Badoer in the Ferrari
Jenson Button in the BAR
Zsolt Baumgartner and Kylie Flynn in a two-seater Minardi
David Coulthard in the McLaren
Juan Pablo Montoya in the WilliamsF1
Martin Brundle in the Jaguar

I was saddened to hear that Minardi’s Sporting Director, John Walton, died shortly after this tremendous event. My sympathies go to his family, his many friends in the pit-lane and his partner, Louise Goodman.

Today, of course, is the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, an event to which I always look forward.

While I go away and do all the things that I need to do before the race, I shall leave you with a link to the excellent Lego Holy Grail film. A couple of which have been linked to elsewhere of late!