Through the post came the new credit cards, ready to be placed in a safe place.  Nowadays the credit card companies take great pains and go to great lengths to ensure that the cards are not intercepted and snatched away before they have been delivered to the rightful owners. 
A number of card companies have [...]

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In an interesting article by Adam Davidson on Reuters explains in simple terms why AIG’s trouble is something that is important for us. 
In a turbulent week in the financial markets and at a time when the rest of us are feeling the pinch with increases in fuel and food prices, the idea that CDS’s [...]

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The Tango’d Bullet appears at 1:45 into the video. Thanks again to Timmy Mallett for compiling this video.
 

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Here are some of the entrants to the Cookham Dean Gravity Grand Prix.  In fact here is a video from the BBC which was filmed during the event. (ignore the advert if it plays in front of the event)

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The gravity grand prix was an amazing success, with glorious weather and hundreds of spectators. A field of 23 carts assembled at the start for the three races.  Team Tango’d Bullet made up of Porteur Keane, Mike Mather, Simon Johnson and Tim Pottage (with Simon’s daughter Poppy in the kart)
 
The race format was for [...]

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The Cookham Dean Gravity Grand Prix is two days away and we are ready!  The cart is prepared with the last sponsors logos being applied and the tires pumped.
Tomorrow morning we are doing a test run and test firing of the roman candles.  We expect that this to go really well.  Most importantly there is [...]

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The New James Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace, uses 10 brand new fully featured DBS’s.  9 are written off during filming (actually one was ruined on route to the set) and one is kept for promoting the movie.  This is how we were introduced to a visit to the Aston Martin Factory in  Gaydon, Warwickshire.
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Earlier today scientists fired a beam of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located on the Swiss French border.  And we are here to tell the tail!
Not that I really thought that we were going to be sucked into a black hole or anything!
I love the [...]

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We are getting close to the race and the kart has now been "logo’d-up"
There are three categories:
Sponsors who did because they are cool:
Sponsors who couldn’t because they are BANKRUPT:
Sponsors we were hoping for:

A this point I didn’t manage to get a particularly good set of pictures, but these will do until I can [...]

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Yesterday the Cookham Regatta took place under leaden skies more like a November day than the 6th of September! 
This year the Cookham Challenge involved Dragon Boat racing, Canadian Canoe Cats, volleyball, tug of war and the "silly walk" race (4 man skis)
The David Lloyd Vikings were put together Emma Buckland initially from the staff [...]

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