Car Show

Last Sunday, I went to a Japanese car show at Beaulieu. The turn out was incredible; it was by far tyhe biggest car show I've ever been too. They were filming an episode of Wheeler-Dealers there, or at least something with the host, as well as having all kinds of cars from bog-standard Nissan Jukes, to fulled modified Nissan Skyline GT-Rs. One of the reasons I was looking forward to going was to find other GT-R owners to help me with my annoying tyre pressure sensor problems. I found a group of 350Z owners who pointed me in the right direction.

But one thing we noticed, was that there were very few young people there. It seems the group of people who were into tuning imported cars 20 years ago have stayed exactly the same all this time. Like the guys from the 50s and 60s who loved muscle cars.

It's Not Home

It was never meant to be. Still, at least England beat Germany, and went the distance with Italy in the final. The ref cost us the match, but I joked with Dad that it was revenge for the English refereeing of the Euro '10 final. There's always next year, but this tournament was so full of surprises, it really felt like this was going to be our time. I'm not sure we'll get this chance again soon. Hell, Greece won the whole thing a few years back, and how often do you see them nowadays? Exactly.

Toe-tally Annoying

Last Thursday, just before bed, I accidentally banged my little toe against the doorframe. I've hit my toe on things before, so I figured the pain would subside soon, but the next day, the little thing was pink. I decided to go to the gym anyway, where we were supposed to run for 5 kilometres. Since that wasn't going to happen with my new injury, I rode an "assault bike" for 10 km instead. When I got home, the toe was now purple.

The next day, we all went to a very wet and rainy Sway Fete. On the way home, Mum suggested I go to the minor injuries unit at the local New Forest Hospital. I've been there for something before, only to be told that it was "too serious", and that they treat "minor injuries only".

This time they told me that they "don't treat broken toes" without even looking at it. What an utterly useless waste of NHS money.