Riccardo Patrese was lucky enought to have a drive in a modern Honda F1 car last week and at the same time managed to snag a Civic Type-R so he could show his wife what he used to do for a living.

Despite the road-going Civic being much slower he still managed to scare the living daylights out of the poor woman - if only she had known she was being filmed at the time!

This is more than likely not safe for work to anyone who understands the lingo…

I was at Tesco in Carlisle the other day and became involved in a bit of people-watching.

Beside the carpark, they have a pretty big recycling area with skips or enclosures for pretty much everything you would ever want to get rid of - from glass and plastics to clothes and cardboard.

As a relative youngster with hopefully a good few years ahead of me, I’m trying to bear the need for recycling in mind and always assumed that the main users of these places would be people of a similar age to me.

Hmm, last post was on 18th June 2008 - almost a month ago, and I feel a bit ashamed at the lack of action!

Don’t really have any excuses either other than the fact I’ve just been lazy of late.  Well, we did eventually move house, but I can’t blame that for almost four weeks inactivity.

So what’s happened in the intervening period?  Well, for a start the spacebar on my laptop appears to be about to give up the ghost so apologies for any words running into each other - I think I’ve caught any so far, but some may slip through.  Pennies are tight so this thing has to last me a few years yet!

I was pretty proud to be Scottish on Tuesday and Wednesday due to the pre-match coverage of Rangers fans who had travelled down to Manchester to follow their team in the UEFA Cup Final.

The scenes on the news showed them behaving impeccably and while it must have been a bit of a pain for the locals to have so many extra people in their midst, I’m sure they pretty much welcomed them with open arms given their behaviour at that point.

By Thursday morning all that had changed.  I felt ashamed and I’m not even a Rangers fan.  How must the innocent fans feel?

For one reason or another I was reminded of this song today - it’s something we used to sing when I was a youngster and we were heading off on a schooltrip somewhere on a bus.

Haven’t a clue who wrote it or whether I’m infringing on some copyright issues by printing the lyrics here, but never mind…

It’s called Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny and is sung to the tune of She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain :-

Oh ye cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus,
Oh ye cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus,
Ye cannae shove yer Granny
For she’s yer Mammie’s Mammie,
Ye canna shove yer Granny aff a bus.