The 2005 BriSCA F1 World Final is a week on Saturday at Northampton International Raceway AKA Brafield.

A first for the small stadium and I must admit to being a bit sceptical about the tarmac tracks ability to host the major event of the year. However its a done deal and I ordered my ticket at the weekend to make sure I get in. That's always been the concern with using the smaller tracks. The WF is the biggest meeting of the year with the biggest turnout spectatorwise and there hasn't been many places that could cope with the numbers. I suppose attendances have struggled recently and with the promoters Incarace hiring grandstands for seating every one, including us once a yearers will be accomodated.

Have to admit am starting to look forward to it. Main concern is parking and being able to get a quick get a way as I'm on an earlyish morning flight on the Sunday.

Hey ho...

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.