The New World

I saw Terrence Malick‘s The New World last night. It was pretty amazing (as all of Mr Malick’s works are), though definitely not his best. Not quite as good as The Thin Red Line or Badlands, I’ve yet to see Days of Heaven though. It has some absolutely stunning moments – particularly the opening sequence, [...]

Track Day

Not at the Green Hell, but rather at [tag]Castle Coombe[/tag], a lovely little ring. I found it to be a very charming yet demanding circuit – lots of very fast (and flat!) corners, a completely different experience to Silverstone or the ‘Ring. Most of the track is taken flat out, which means it’s very demanding [...]

Vagueness as usual

Okay, two guys have been arrested on various terrorism-related charges, one on the charge of raising funds for terrorism, but the second guy has been charged with three counts of receiving [tag]terrorism training[/tag]. Excuse me? Police allege he was trained in the use of weapons in woodland near a caravan and campsite in Hampshire, and [...]

Aaaagh

Reason why there hasn’t been much posting of late is because two weeks ago, I had two of my wisdom teeth out which was intensely painful (and severe complications with the bottom one). I then recovered sufficiently to have the other two out today. So things will be light until a) the pain dissapates somewhat [...]