Happy Birthday KL

He's 33 today and Lucy provided a cake.........with cream !

Our First Meal !

Pie, mushy peas and gravy never tasted so good.....

This is the life - why has it taken us so many years to do this ?

A brief stop 20 miles from Portsmouth to feed and water ourselves did the trick - and KL and Chadders even washed up before we set back off !!

Roll on the ferry port......

Lucy - enroute !

Well - we've set off in Lucy for this year's LM.

She's packed to the gills with food, drink and goodies and she's doing a fine job so far.

Chadders is in for the first stint but there will be no 'Hedley-like' driving on this journey - slowly, slowly catchy monkey - although we don't need to catch one with KL on board !

I'm deep inside Lucy with a beer and a laptop - nothing new there then !!

More updates as we travel - we've got pie, mushy peas and gravy for tea !!

Toilet Habits

.....'twas the night before setting off for LM and all through the house.....not a creature was stirring not even Lucy !!

Anyway - enough of my excitement - I thought I'd blatantly steal one of Chadders' pics to highlight the frivolities of last year - especially now that they're a thing of the past for the Cavaliers due to real toilets !!

At least JT might win this year and beat his pitiful attempt from last year !!

Traditional Long Range Le Mans Weather Forecast

Long range weather... not so clever

Le Mans forecast

Perfect for the Cavaliers, not too clever for the Roundheads.

Wet throughout with Friday and Sunday merely "cloudy".

Houx Annexe

I presume we're camping at Houx Annexe again this year (assuming no flat spins when we get there).

However, I understand that this year Houx Annexe, and a few others, will have numbered pitches AND that the pitches are only generally available Thursday to Monday - "If you stay longer a local charge applies".  

Lastly, not that I'm panicking, I presume it's been squared with the campsite booking that we can take Lucy on there - I know they rarely give a toss but I suspect they're supposed to ?

So, Pikey - what's the score ?

Le Mans (Not Just) for Dummies

The Club Arnage Guide to the 24H of Le Mans 2009 is now available here

It's a fantastic read as are the other years which are also still available.

2008

2007

2006

I'll be bringing it along with me (in electronic form of course - saving the planet !!) if anyone's interested.

I've also found out that a free wireless internet access point is available at the McDonalds on the Mulsanne straight at the 1st chicane apparently.  Clearly I remember that the golden arches in town have free wi-fi too after the bitching from last year - sorry guys - won't happen again this year.........apart from if I'm updating the blog!! :o)

Pikey, do you know whether we can get to this on our existing tickets ?