SOTD #188
Today’s song is God Gave Me An Angel by Chris Rea
I was never born with the face of a movie star
I was never blessed with an easy load along the way
I have taken the wrong turning
So many times I can’t remember
But one thing I have for sure
I can always smile and say
God gave me an angel with a smiling face
God gave me an angel this I know
My churches are all empty and I’m guilty every day
But God gave me an angel anyway
Hadn’t heard this for quite a while when it popped up iTunes. I really listened to the words for the first time in I can’t remember how long, and realised that I, too, have been blessed with an angel.
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Pick me again
After yesterday’s entry – tulips in April – I’ve also added a second photo to the National Trust competition.
This one was taken on my recent holiday in Cornwall. What it shows is the beam of the working beam engine at Cornish Mines and Engines at Cambourne. In the periphery, modern day Cambourne can seen – built on the site of what used to be a major Cornish tin mine. The casting on the side of the beam and the traditional Cornish flag place let the viewer know exactly where they are, what they’re seeing and the history that comes with it.
As yesterday, if you like the image click here to vote.
Pick Me! Pick Me!
Thanks to Gareth for giving me the heads up on this one: the National Trust and the Sunday Times are running a photography competition and I’ve just entered one of my favourite NT snaps. If you like the picture, please take a moment to vote for me by following this link.
Formula One – May The Farce Be With You
You thought that I’d given up writing, didn’t you? It has been nearly a month since I last wrote anything, so I apologise for that. I’d like to say that I think it has been worth the wait, but I think we all know that’s probably not true.
Formula One has been in the headlines a bit recently, with the Renault F1 team being found guilty of ‘race-fixing’. Flamboyant Flavio Briatore has been banished, possibly forever, Pat Symonds is out for five years and the team has a suspended two year ban.
It’s a very serious situation and needed to be dealt with severely, but I don’t think that it has been. Nelson Piquet Jr, the third point on the triangle, has basically got away scot free – given immunity from prosecution for providing evidence. But why should he? The whole situation only came to light after Piquet was dumped from the Renault F1 team for not achieving results. He attempted to play the hard man and blackmail Flavio to regain his place and when Flavio told him where to go, he threw his teddy out of the pram and went to the FIA.
But the whole thing could not have happened without his involvement and his complicity. If he wasn’t happy about doing it, he should have gone to the FIA at the race last year. But he didn’t. Instead, he risked his own life and that of spectators and marshals and then kept quiet about it all.
And Max Moseley’s contention that parent company Renault should not be punished, as it was not their responsibility? Sorry, that doesn’t wash either. Ultimately, they are responsible for everything that their employees do – whether sanctioned by them or not. The team, the parent company and all of the individuals directly involved should have been banned with immediate effect.
Of course, the reasons they weren’t are commercial ones. If you exclude Renault from F1, then a number of other teams are going to be unable to compete because they won’t have engines. And then Bernie and Max’s little money-spinning empire comes crashing down around their ears.
On the face of it, though, that wouldn’t be all bad – having seen Bernie’s tap dance today when being ‘interviewed’ by the BBC at the qualifying session for this year’s Singapore race, my opinion of the man has not improved – we need someone straight running F1,
Going mobile
Thanks to the ever-wonderful Stephen Fry for the heads-up on this one.
If, like me, you’ve ever browsed The Wolfs Howl on a mobile device like an iPhone or an Android phone, then you’ll be pleased to know that I have recently installed a great little plug-in called WPTouch. This small addition to the WordPress installation makes a big difference when you browse the site with a mobile, as it acts like a mini-App and presents the site in an easier to read, easier to navigate fashion that if you’d simply looked at in your mobile browser.
If you do read the site from a mobile device, let me know what you think of the change.
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