I’ve not posted much lately, and I really need to get back at it.

To be fair, I’ve not had much time but I really need to make time and get some things done!  Most of my free time has been spent sleeping, painting, demolishing or shopping - and not good shopping either (games, books, CDs etc) but shopping for washing machines, wallpaper, paint etc (zzzzzzzzz).

I need to download photographs from my phone, and write about the Red Bull factory visit which was superb.  I’ve also been to the British Grand Prix since I last wrote anything of any great interest, but the pictures I took there are pretty poor!

By chance, I stumbled across this website which allows you to test and see if a certain site is allowed to be accessed from China.

I’d read recently in the paper about certain sites which were being blocked for various reasons, and even Google is having to doctor some of it’s search results for users in that country - it seems a bit of a strange way of doing things but each to their own.  The reasoning behind the blocking is explained in some depth on Wikipedia.

I was a bit upset that they don’t seem to like this site, as I don’t think it contains anything overly offensive!

Irish chaps, The Thrills, have a new album on the horizon which will hopefully contain more of their usual catchy tunes.

You can have a look at some vidclips :

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I’ve been busy with decorating the new house, but taking a week off now to head south to the British Grand Prix.

As an extra special bonus, I’ve also been picked from the 30,000 who donated money through Red Bull’s Faces For Charity fund raiser to visit the factory and see my picture being applied to the car - out of the 30,000 only ten people have been asked to attend so I feel very priviledged!

Apprently ITV will be there to film it for a piece which will be shown in the British GP buildup next weekend so thankfully I’ll be at the race so won’t get to see it…