Wow, three weeks of this flu bug and still not over it. I just loove winter, not…
Anyway, my apologies for lack of updates, I’ll try harder. Lots of things have happened since last I posted. Here’s a few of them.
Marc Marquez’s chance of winning every race this season and of winning a record 11 in a row, went out the window at Brno where a frustrating lack of rear end grip left him floundering from the show of the red light. Not only did he not win, but he finished 4th, his first time off the podium in a race that he has finished since he entered the class at the beginning of last year. Typically, he failed to blame the bike, but just accepted it as a natural consequence of racing, “some you win, some you lose” The interview afterwards with Livio Suppo was most revealing.
This weekend it’s the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and a chance for MM93 to get back to his winning ways. With a 77 point lead in the championship he is still more than three wins clear and must still be an unbackable favourite to take the title by Aragon next month.
On the home front I have been spending a fair bit of time in between coughing and spluttering, prepping our van for its first big trip away. Between my wife and myself we have managed to pack everything that we will need into two large plastic bins that comfortably fit under the bed. Remember the free pit tent that I got from Trooper Lu’s a couple of months ago? It’s 3 metres by 3 metres and will make a perfect annexe. It also fits under the bed as do the other requisites, leaving us still quite a bit of floor space free. Thanks to Dean Holland and the great guys at The Coffee Garage at Wandandian, I now have some appropriate signwriting (stickers, actually) so that we will be able to find the van in the crowded camping areas. (see above)
Now to my main subject, the current fad sweeping the internet, the ice bucket challenge. Yes, I know that it is a good cause. Howard Wallace, the guy who made most of the specialised alloy parts for the Shadowfax, died at a too young age from MND, so I am aware of the worthiness on the cause. However, like most things that are popular on the internet, the IBC seems to be much more about the “look at me” factor than it is about raising money for a good cause. I wonder how many of these so-called celebrities would have donated anything if it weren’t an opportunity for them to flaunt themselves in front of a world-wide audience?
I think this newsreader sums it up quite well.
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And, to add to that, here’s a comment about it from someone who was probably wiser than any of us..
1 “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.”
Worth thinking about. Catch you next time.