Hi all, well it's finished!!! the pain in my side for 5 weeks now--- ASSIGNMENT 5, sent away for marking,

so who would like to tackel ASSIGNMENT 6 Garden Design!!! i havent  a clue, was never any good at drawing, and matching coloures no way (just ask my OH)

 

ANY WAY i went over the allotment today, the potatoes are growing well, onions.shallots, fine, beetroots are up,

cabbages are being stung by insects, peas ok, runners not up, parsnips hit and miss, carrots ok, sweads no were to be seen, but over all things are ok,

 

trying out some software to fix photos to place on here, pictures of my dad,

 

ok catch you soon

windy

ALL VIEWS AND PICTURES are taking from the ITV-F1 WEBSITE.

Hi All did you see the race today, MS started from pit lane, and finnished 5, JB had a badday, WEBBER and RAIKONEN blow it and went out, then DAVID COULTHARD for bed bull took 3 place, hopefully starting the ball rolling for them, BARRICHELLO 4th place leaving ALONSO 1ST place, with MONTOYA 2nd, good race with loads of over taking, safty car came out once, when webbers car blow up and finnished up at the end of pitlane,

 Alonso's princely Monaco reward Sunday, 28, May, 2006, 17:06 In the end, it was another commanding victory for Fernando Alonso, the 12th of the Spaniard’s glittering young Formula 1 career and his fourth of the 2006 season. But that doesn’t even begin to tell the story of one of the most breathless Monaco Grands Prix in recent memory. For the first hour of the race, Alonso had to soak up relentless pressure from McLaren sparring partner Kimi Raikkonen, and latterly from an inspired Mark Webber too. For lap after lap Raikkonen shadowed Alonso’s every move, able to respond whenever the Renault driver upped the ante with a new fastest lap. Webber joined the party shortly after the first round of pit stops and kept in touch until losing a chunk of time in the slower traffic that is an occupational hazard around the Monte Carlo streets. The Australian still looked in with a chance of catching the lead pair, however, since he was matching them for raw pace and was due to make his final pit stop later than either of them. So at the two-thirds distance mark we had the tantalising prospect of a three-way battle between three different makes of car all the way to the chequered flag. Alas, within the space of two laps that scenario evaporated along with the engines in the back of Webber’s Williams and Raikkonen’s McLaren. All of a sudden Alonso was gifted a luxurious lead, allowing him to cruise serenely to his first Monaco GP triumph. It hadn’t been like that in the early laps, with Raikkonen tucked under the rear wing of Alonso’s Renault and denying the leader a moment’s relaxation. Alonso, of course, is a master of defence, and did not present Kimi with the slightest chink in his armour. But the tension was palpable as both drivers stormed around the narrow, twisting streets on a knife-edge of adhesion, aware that the slightest error would probably decide the race’s outcome. Webber had lost second place to Raikkonen up the hill on lap two when he left his braking too late at Ste Devote and ran wide at the exit. But the Bridgestone-shod Williams was working a treat round Monaco’s slow hairpins and Webber managed to peg his deficit to the lead pair to around three to four seconds. He sliced another couple of seconds off that by virtue of a later first pit stop than both Raikkonen and Alonso and some blisteringly quick laps in the interim. Following the stops he was able to make further headway as Alonso initially struggled for grip on his latest set of Michelin tyres and his lap times dropped from the 1m16s to the 1m18s range. Indeed, such was the drop-off in Alonso’s pace that the top four concertinaed together and were blanketed by just 1.8s by lap 35, with Juan Pablo Montoya latching himself onto the back of Webber’s Williams. Meanwhile Giancarlo Fisichella was providing some superb entertainment as he fought his way through the field from ninth place on the grid having been relegated four grid spots for a blocking offence in qualifying. Fisi was in uncharacteristically rumbustious form and passed David Coulthard and Jacques Villeneuve at the chicane in successive laps, the first amid plumes of tyre smoke as he j-u-s-t pulled off a banzai lunge under braking without short-cutting the corner. Part of the reason Fisichella was trying so hard was that he was about to go a lap down to team-mate Alonso, but he only bought himself a few laps’ respite as the Spaniard continued his remorseless progress. Webber didn’t find Fisichella such an easy nut to crack, however, and lost touch with Raikkonen as he spent several laps bottled up behind the Italian. Cruelly, that all became academic on lap 49, when Webber came to a smoky halt at the exit of Ste Devote, the result of an exhaust failure on his Williams. With the FW28 stranded in a dangerous location, the safety car had to be deployed, bringing forward the frontrunners’ second round of pit stops. Alonso squeaked back out still ahead of Raikkonen, but hopes of an enthralling shootout between F1’s two hottest young chargers were shattered when Kimi’s McLaren detonated itself in similar fashion to Webber’s Williams. With the MP4-21 parked at Portier, a mile or so from the pits, the Finn decided to forego the long walk back and was soon seen cooling off on his boat in the company of some champagne-drinking friends! All of a sudden the complexion of the race had changed completely, giving Alonso an unmolested run to the chequered flag. Montoya was unable to offer any sort of challenge and settled for second, but third place changed hands several times as various contenders hit trouble. A one-stopping Rubens Barrichello had been a mobile chicane in the early stages as he kept the chasing pack at bay in his fuel-heavy Honda. But the Brazilian was set for his first podium since joining the Japanese team when he broke the pit lane speed limit at his solitary stop and incurred a drive-through penalty. That put Jarno Trulli in the box seat for the final podium place, but the Italian joined the growing list of retirements when his Toyota ground to a halt with no drive just five laps from the end. Into the breach stepped Coulthard to claim Red Bull Racing’s maiden podium finish – just reward for an impressive weekend’s work from the Scot. Barrichello salvaged fourth place, but only by the narrowest of margins as Michael Schumacher closed in on him at a prodigious rate in the closing laps. It will be a long time before the seven-time world champion lives down the ignominy of being found guilty of deliberately staging an incident in Saturday afternoon’s qualifying session. But if that episode was a sad reflection on the flawed nature of his genius, his drive on Sunday was a reminder of his towering ability and, above all, of his unquenchable competitive spirit. Wisely electing to start from the pit lane rather than risk his Ferrari’s front wing on the run to the first corner, Schumacher made light work of his first few targets, passing two cars between Mirabeau and Loews on the opening lap. He then spent a frustrating first stint stuck behind Jenson Button, who had one of the most forgettable afternoons of his career as he struggled with a Honda that hadn’t handled to his liking all weekend. But after expertly passing Button at the chicane on lap 21, Schumacher relaunched his charge and was comfortably the fastest man on the track in the race’s final phase. Fisichella’s heroics ultimately only yielded sixth place, the Italian having lost ground during the safety car period when the timing of his pit stop was compromised by the need to get Alonso in as soon as possible. Nick Heidfeld and Ralf Schumacher took the final two points-paying places after solid if unspectacular drives for BMW and Toyota respectively. Monaco Grand Prix result (provisional) - 78 laps 1. ALONSO Renault 1h43m43.116s 2. MONTOYA McLaren +14.5s 3. COULTHARD Red Bull +52.2s 4. BARRICHELLO Honda +53.3s 5. M.SCHUMACHER Ferrari +53.8s 6. FISICHELLA Renault +1m02.0s 7. HEIDFELD BMW +1 lap 8. R.SCHUMACHER Toyota +1 lap 9. MASSA Ferrari +1 lap 10. LIUZZI Toro Rosso +1 lap 11. BUTTON Honda +1 lap 12. ALBERS Midland +1 lap 13. SPEED Toro Rosso +1 lap 14. VILLENEUVE BMW +1 lap 15. MONTEIRO Midland +2 laps 16. MONTAGNY Super Aguri +3 laps R. TRULLI Toyota +6 laps R. KLIEN Red Bull +22 laps R. ROSBERG Williams +27 laps R. RAIKKONEN McLaren +28 laps R. WEBBER Williams +30 laps R. SATO Super Aguri +32 laps

 

 MONACO GP GRID Monaco Grand Prix provisional starting grid 1. M.SCHUMACHER Ferrari 2. ALONSO Renault 3. WEBBER Williams 4. RAIKKONEN McLaren 5. FISICHELLA Renault 6. MONTOYA McLaren 7. BARRICHELLO Honda 8. TRULLI Toyota 9. COULTHARD Red Bull 10. ROSBERG Williams 11. R.SCHUMACHER Toyota 12. KLIEN Red Bull 13. LIUZZI Toro Rosso 14. BUTTON Honda 15. VILLENEUVE BMW 16. HEIDFELD BMW 17. ALBERS Midland 18. MONTEIRO Midland 19. SPEED Toro Rosso 20. SATO Super Aguri 21. MONTAGNY Super Aguri 22. MASSA Ferrari

  Button "extremely frustrated" Saturday, 27, May, 2006, 16:37 Jenson Button ended a disastrous Monaco qualifying session “extremely frustrated” after being knocked out before the Top Ten shoot-out for the first time this season. The British Honda ace’s hopes of racing for a podium on his favourite track now lay in tatters as he faces the prospect of starting 14th on the grid. Jenson just scraped through the first knock-out session and was forced to use a new set of tyres early when he was blocked by traffic. Then in the second session he was struck by mysteriously high levels of understeer, rendering him incapable of fighting for position. "The balance of the car was reasonable on old tyres but I had an unexpected amount of understeer when we switched to new tyres,” he explained. “I was quicker on old tyres than new. “Right now we don't know why so we will have to look at the data but everyone knows that qualifying well here is crucial for the race. “I'm obviously extremely frustrated to be starting so far back here for a race I felt confident we could do well in." Rubens Barrichello on the other hand did make it into the Top Ten shoot out and for the third race running, will start ahead of his Honda team-mate. "It was crazy out there, just like everybody predicted,” he said afterwards. “I was trying very hard to avoid getting in other people's way and they were doing the same for me, which was nice to see. “Seventh is not a bad place to start tomorrow and it should be an incredible race all views given by the F 1 -ITV WEBSITE (CLICK LINK)

 

Hi All, i just like to say a quick thanks to my little brother trev,   for all the help he has given today,

enabling me to place a visitors countor and a signing in book, onto myspace,

after that we spent some time on using a software package called N-TRACK STUDIO, this  package allows  me to record music from my tape/cd unit to my pc, now  that will keep me busy, and what with every thing else, i can see that i might have some late nights for a while. still thats better than getting bored.

ok  i'm off to have a play with my new software, so who can remember the THOMPSON TWINS, (in the gap) 

BROS (changing faces) FIVE STAR (luxury of life) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (born in the u.s.a.) just to mention a few.

CUL

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Hi all, i got up earlier than usual for once and ventured over to my plot, at 9.30 which turned out fine as it's not really stoped raining, anyway  to the point, hoeing through the potatoes, onions, peas, etc and things are'nt to bad, carrots, parsnips and sweads are taking their time to grow, they have germinated, but this cold weather has slowed them down, i have runnerbeans to be planted out ( i'll see jack shortly) living in a coldframe, and tomatoes plants seeds given to me by a friend called lottie, from a gardening web site allotmentnstuff(see link section) i envy her as she has a polytunnel, just think what i could grow and all the time i could spend in there, and not with OH ohhhhhhhhh holiday!!!!!!!!!!!! radio!!!!!!!!bliss tea!!!!!!!!!!!!!thinking of all the flower show i could enter for BANG, POO thats the sound of my bubble bursting, back to normal,

any way must get back to my coursework

catch you all later

windy

Hi all, well i thought i was on a winner, an easyday on  sunday news from an old work mate, thats when the problems set in, what with ROSSI losing his race, then pain in my back all night keeping up and not allowing me to sleep, i,  in my infinite wisdom thought i would upgrade my OH'S computer from WME to WXP had a few installing problems d:\i386 not found, ohhh poo, still given a choice carry on or not i carried on, then it came to the starting, the computer fired up ok, nice new screen, signed in ok, went to sing on my ISP,

 IT WOULDNT FIND IT , so after spending around £60.00 on the phone to a help desk where they couldnt even fix it, i thought if i take out XP from the ADD and REMOVE section, and reinstall ME, things may sort them self out, now, all is back to normal. whoooooo rayyyyyyyyy,

catch you later

windy

 

i had a nice surprise today an iris flowered, it was from some i split up at the end of the year as they never flowered last year, it just goes to show a new site, some bone meal, new things happen.

 

Hi all, Good news, my daughter and granddaughter are back safe and sound from THE USA, they went to FLORIDA on a two week holiday, whaaaaaaaaa   hooooooooooo this will be fun hearing what they got up to,

seeing all the pictures, staying up london with her uncle, and will be home on saturday,

 

ok cul

windy

hi all, i had an easy day today for once, when shopping this morning, payed bills, then after dinner i went over to my younger brother's place and helped to build a MY SPACE SITE, for him,

he does a lot on ham radios, speaking all over the world to people,

http://spaces.msn.com/m0but/

go on take a look,

i was even able to place the windows player onto the site, and it works

i laugh, he knows how to fix computers and i know (a little bit- but dont tell any one) how to use the software.

we have to call each other for help a lot, ( mine you i really like that as we keep in touch) where i dont with the rest of my family, and i miss that,

 Daughter and granddaught are back fron the USA on the week end, im looking forward to that, loads to talk about.

 

 

things are growing fast now, my potatoes are up and have been earthed up,

shallots are doing fine, main white and red onions aswell,

beetroot, carrots, parsnips are just sticking their heads through the ground,

peas are up and doing fine now,just touching the string supports,

i've planted my runnerbeans,

cabbages, sprout, cauliflower are planted,

Assignment 5--- it's doing my head in, i'm having to write up a management plan, on fruit trees and soft fruits, from planting to harvesting and storing, not forgetting any problems grower will face,

good fun but hard work,