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How difficult should it be to buy a car?

More difficult than you might think. Earlier this week Liz and I went to look for a replacement for her Ford S Max. The S Max has been a good car but it’s time for a change and Liz had in mind the Audi Q5. So off we went to the local Audi garage to […]

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You need to hire for Innovation

Innovation is a topic very close to my heart and a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending an excellent workshop delivered by Dr Anne Stevens the VP of Design at Kone elevators. The session was hugely insightful and very educational… and whilst I’m not going to share the details verbatim, I thought […]

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How ironic that the Red Bull team are relaxed, did they know they were going to win?

Another video post from my visit to the British GP at Silverstone this year. This time it’s looking into the Red Bull garage. Of all the teams in the pit lane they looked (and sounded) the most relaxed. Surely you would expect the opposite effect with Red Bull! Did they know Mark Webber was going to […]

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Memories from Silverstone with the Marussia Team (Turn up the volume the sound is awesome)

Following on from my “Petrolhead Dream Heaven” post a few days ago I promised to share some of the videos I took from inside the Marussia garage. The first is of the mechanics making some last minute changes to the cars before practice starts: Not long after here’s Charles Pic leaving the garage (how clean […]

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F1 Safety Car and Medical Car Racing… turn up your volume

From the British Grand Prix, the safety car and the medical car having a race… What if they crash? Not to worry they have two safety cars… But they only have one Medical Car

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Petrolhead – Dream Heaven

Being a certified petrolhead one of my long time ambitions was to go behind the scenes of a Grand Prix and witness first-hand what goes on inside a F1 garage. Most people normally associate F1 with the world of designer attire, fine wine, and of course a fair amount of corporate schmoozing. Whilst I don’t […]

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Scottish Power – A story of Excellent Customer Experience

If you read my blog you’ll know I’m a great believer in shouting about great service when I come across it and this time I’d like to shout out Scottish Power. We’ve been a customer of Scottish Power for a few years now and we’ve generally been happy with their service. However a few weeks […]

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The UK Tax system explained (in beer…)

I recently picked this up on Facebook and prompted by the recent LibDem conference I thought I’d share it here on the blog… Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100… If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something […]

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Jaguar XK – The Seducer

Finally got round to taking some pictures of the new pride and joy… Also been playing around with iPhoto which is really cool…

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Seduced by a thing of beauty…

This is a sequel to my “Almost Seduced by a thing of beauty” post a couple of weeks back As you’d expect from the title, the temptation was too much and I’ve finally been seduced by the thing of beauty. Putting aside my own petrol head desire to own such a beast… this was only […]