2011 British F3 International Series, Rounds 22-24 – Qualifying Report

2011 Cooper Tires British F3 International Series Rounds 22-24, Rockingham Motor Speedway, Northamptonshire, September 3rd/4th 2011, © Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas Weather: Cold, grey, dull. Changes: Back to normal without any Invitation Class runners which is probably a relief to all concerned. Instead we have a new Rookie Class runner in the shape of…

Food 2011 – Artisan, Hessle

Sunday, 22nd May 2011 – Artisan, Hessle It wasn’t the easiest of weekends. We spent the early part of Friday morning failing to solve Elaine’s bathroom dilemma by proposing more questions than solutions before finally heading to Hull to see what’s been happening with the house since January when the work started to put it…

Food 2011 – La Mirabelle, Harrogate

Thursday, 19th May 2011 – La Mirabelle, Harrogate Thursday I ended up working anyway in the morning, and in the afternoon we drove up to North Yorkshire to visit friends and go out for dinner at La Mirabelle in Harrogate. This was something we’d planned from sometime back in January when we heard they were…

Food 2011 – Roger Hickman’s, Norwich

Saturday, 14th May 2011 – Roger Hickman’s, Norwich A weekend at Snetterton is not a cheerful thing, and therefore if we have to race there, then there has to be some sort of balance to the weekend, usually in the shape of the best meal we can find. This time, after a brief search of…

Running 2011 – Silverstone Half Marathon

Sunday, 6th March 2011 – Silverstone Half Marathon, Silverstone Double espresso drunk with predictably horrible if welcome results (if you’re not a runner, you’re better off not knowing). Porridge eaten. 1 litre of water downed. Serious stretches done… Body glide applied to sensitive areas (armpits in this case) Temporary Cancer Research tattoos applied. About to…

Food 2011 – Halibut, Eat at 23, Buckingham, Brackley

Saturday, 5th February 2011 – Halibut, Eat at 23, Buckingham, Brackley It started out normally enough in that I went running first thing (4 miles at a gentle pace), but it got away from us a bit after that. We had always planned to head for Buckingham and a trip to Halibut to stock up…

Running 2010 – Spooky Sprint 10K, Holme Pierrepoint

Saturday, 30th October 2010 – Spooky Sprint 10K, Holme Pierrepoint So my 3rd 10k of the year was on Saturday, 30th October, the so-called Spooky Sprint, a 10k to raise money for Parkinson’s UK around the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepoint near Nottingham. The course was described as mainly flat and the map…

Running 2010 – Silverstone Half Marathon, Silverstone

19th October 2010 – My Next Running Task, Silverstone Half Marathon, Silverstone Well, in between updating the Monte Carlo trip I reckoned I’d add some other bits and pieces of information before I start trying to catch up with everyone else’s news (and if there is something you really think I should see, please link…

Running 2010 – Northampton 10K, Northampton

Sunday, 3rd October 2010 – Northampton 10K, Northampton Today I ran the Northampton 10k – it was great fun. Here’s how it went. I woke up a bit later than I’d intended to (set the alarm for 7am then didn’t switch the on switch, so I woke up at 7.20 instead). I lurched around getting…