Saturday: the good, the bad and the ugly!

The good:

• The weather was glorious - it was warm (about 23 C) and sunny all day long.
• The racing at Kings Lynn was brilliant, and while Frankie didn't win anything he raced really well. Daniel raced excellently as well and will be a blue top at the next race meeting and a red top by June if he continues to race as he has been racing!

The bad:

• Bev handed over a £10 note to buy a portion of chips and a portion of cheesy chips (yummy!), but only got the change of £5. When Bev queried her change, the woman said to come back when they cashed up and they would check if they had an extra £5, but when they went back at the end of the racing, they were still serving food. However, the woman very kindly took their word and gave them the £5, so our faith in human nature is restored again!
• Poor Ian Stirk in car 65 was hit very hard in the last F1 Stock Car race of the evening. Although conscious, he complained of serious neck pains, which meant they couldn't get him out of his car. After 30 minutes of being attended to by the track paramedics, a real ambulance turned up, followed by 2 fire engines and 2 police cars! As we were leaving, the fire crew were cutting the roof off his car (as happened to Frankie's car after his big accident) so that the doctors could get him out of the car and into the ambulance. The last saloon stock car race was abandoned and will be run along with the rest of their races tomorrow afternoon. Paws crossed Mr Stirk is ok.

And the Ugly:

• On our way home through Cambridgeshire, we were stopped by the police! Initially we thought it was because of our blue lights (remember the service documents that said our front blue lights were illegal), but instead we had a rear light that wasn't working and we were told that you can only have the front "driving lamps" on in the fog! So, Paul was breathalysed and told to switch off the driving lamps. He was also told that we could have been fined £60 for these transgressions but instead we have to get the rear light fixed within 14 days. Interestingly, he said nothing about the blue lights, loud music or us bears and Mr Chimp in the car! Needless to say we were all traumatised by the incident :-(
• Bev and Paul got extremely dirty at the racing, so Paul had to explain to the police why he had such a grubby face. Bev's face was covered in shale, but luckily the police didn't want to talk to her (phew)!