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Motoring milestone

A most entertaining race on tonight’s Top Gear - across London by car (obviously) [May], bicycle [Hammond], public transport [The Stig] and powerboat [Clarkson]. To avoid spoiling the surprise for anyone who recorded the programme to view later, I’ll hide the result:

The bike won, followed by the powerboat and public transport.

I reached a motoring milestone of my own this weekend. For the first time, the figures on the currency display were higher than those on the volume display when I filled up the Sirion for my trip to Spalding. Yes, over £1.00 per litre of fuel. That’s £4.59 per gallon (or £3.82 - US$7.97 - per US gallon, where they can’t count). If I see one more complaint from Americans about the cost of their fuel … grrrrrrr.

Still, Spalding was great. Had the “client meeting” and got an agreement to spend money (hurrah!), got to play trains thanks to the chaps from Perth and got to collect the layout from M. Even those layouts on show were well worth seeing and I hardly made any impulse purchases at all.

Not a bad weekend, in fact, all in all. How was yours?