The day dawns for yet another stand-off in the F1 stock car world.

Later today is a the Holiday weekend at Sheffield and the BSCDA committee drivers are boycotting the meeting for various reasons - the state of the pits being one. Not the first time the sport's been in a strike situation - though its not a strike. But the first one I've seen discussed on the internet by many who don't know or understand the political infighting that goes on behind the scenes. I've been watching and reading for 40 years and have no idea about all the intrique so can't comment on who's right or wrong.

But perhaps the place for this is really behind closed doors.

My feelings are it's the sports reputation that's going to come off worst from this. Bank Holiday Monday and major meeting on shale and perhaps 15 cars turning up, not on I'm afraid especially after some good press for Sheffield to get the locals interested.

Shame its too late to have the NASCAR style leadership for BriSCA in the UK to bang their heads together and remind them its the show that counts and not screwing the paying public.

Bin playing which is why there's not much activity here again.

Toy 1 is Feed Digest. I'm using this for the various SCSA and Nascar news and views pages on my site plus crafts stuff on Yvonne's Cards. This is the latest incarnation from RSS Feeds which took over from my first supplier who seem to have disappeared. The new version is so flexible and the ability for someone like me to have mixed feeds on one page is neat. Its so easy to set up and coding for HTML pages is simple its well worth any one trying. Its so good I upgraded from the free version to support the work even though in most cases what I actually need is F...R...E...E, Well worth a look for any level of web builder.

Toy 2 is an add yourown site to a links page for my site. Tottaly unnecessary really but again something for me hack about with. Different to the Links style on Yvonne's site - this is more like a directory.

Toys 3 & 4 are for Yvonne's Cards being the shopping basket that I started a while ago and the ongoing order tracking system. I'm now working on getting the orders to go straight into a tracking system that customers can access via password or e-mail address and ticket no.

With work now full time, home office hours are at a premium.

Been missing keeping this up to date but its just been too hot to sit in the office thinking of what to put. Plus a neglected garden's been shouting at me.

So what's been happening?

Big news was spending last weekend at Silverstone for the Grand Prix.

All in all a great experience and an enjoyable couple of days. The race itself may not have made for the best television but the atmosphere in the 100k crowd made it exciting - the roar that went up when JPM took Alonso was unbelievable. Nearly as loud as the 65k cheer that went up when Jenson put in the provisional pole lap time on the Saturday. Quite funny really as Schmacher took to the track after Jenson so you had the cheers for JB then a few seconds later the jeers for MS.

Also fascinating was arriving at Silverstone at 8:00 to find the Fosters bar open and people knocking back lager for breakfast. Suppose if you'd been there since the gates opened 8:00 would be lunchtime. But what was really brilliant about this was that 100k people could spend the day in peaceful enjoyment as I saw no aggravation anywhere. So it is possible!

Silverstone has come in for a lot of stick over the last few years but having nothing to compare this years efforts to I'd have to say it was all slickly run - virtually no hold up getting to the cicuit - queuing to get in was quite painless - the facilities were clean and respectable and an army of staff was on hand to keep bins and that from overflowing. So well done.