Northern bound

I need to head to the north tomorrow for a couple of days. I have meetings in Manchester tomorrow lunchtime, meetings with a customer in the afternoon and then drinks / food with the people out of my Manchester office in the evening. Thursday sees more meetings in Manchester and then an afternoon in Harrogate.

Although I’m looking forward to the trip, and visiting the Manchester office is well overdue, I didn’t really want to be away for two nights. It means that the dog needs to go to the kennels and this time, rather than take the train I will drive up.

However to sweeten the pill I’m stopping at Silverstone on the way home on Friday where I’m helping do a road / track test of the Jaguar that I drove the other night. Not to tempt fate, but the last we did a track test with the same magazine at Silverstone, the two cars we were testing ended up broken by mid afternoon. The engine blew on one and the gearbox went on the other. Still Luffield was most enjoyable sideways and both cars got 4 1/2 stars out of 5 when the article was published.

Here’s hoping for another good day at the old airfield…

Tig tag, tagged

By the non lyrca wearing Quarter Life Crisis.

4 Places I Visit Over and Over:

Le Mans, London (Pall Mall usually), Bournemouth, New York

People who call/text/e-mail me regularly:

My PA, Quarter Life Crisis, one particular customer, Sophie.

Favourite Foods:

Cheesecake, flapjacks, rare cooked steak, home made stir fry, mexican food, chicken and asparagus pie.

Places I’d Rather Be:

In a big field exploring with my dog. Asleep in bed. Lying In someone specials’ arms in the morning. New Jersey shoreline, New York, sideways round Luffield, the Porsche Curves, Eau Rouge. In my favourite restuarant with a good friend. Turning left rather than right when you get on a plane. In the smoking room at the Decent Cigar Emporium in Dublin. Wherever my friends need me to be.

Movies I’d Watch Over and Over:

Rat Race. Days of Thunder. Lost in Translation. Three Colours Red.

Bands/Groups I Love To Listen To:

Ryan Adams (with or without the Cardinals), Thea Gilmore, Counting Crows, Bruce Springsteen, JJ Cale, Stew, Beth Orton, Sheryl Crow, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

Maybe some of the lurkers will come out and tag themselves?

Describe yourself in six words

Something fun for a Thursday.

You have six words to use to describe yourself in, you must use six words and they must be formed into a sentence.

My effort based on my week so far – “Invariably died of a heart attack”