At least Abu Dhabi wasn't a F1 procession

Did you watch the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 12? I did, my first GP in many years.
This was partly due to the fact it was being shown on terrestrial TV (I’ve not joined the SKY revolution) but mainly because, for what seemed like the first time in ages, it was an exciting end to a F1 season.
I can’t say I fully understand the FIA rules and regulations. But that lack of knowledge has never stopped me from commenting in the past.
Am I alone in thinking it was an incredible last lap, with a bit of excitement and even some jeopardy?

Better than the rather boring processional races of the past few years.

My ongoing love/ hate relationship with technology

I have a real love/ hate relationship with technology. Well not really technology but with the people who develop it.
There’s so much to love about tech in 2021. For instance, being able to talk with your aunt in Australia, for free, on an app.
Or how about being able to stalk, sorry, know the exact whereabouts, of your partner when she is on a long drive on her own.
I embraced what was then called new technology in the mid-1980s when I purchased my first desktop computer.
It was a monster, an Amstrad PC1512. I acquired it when we lived overseas and remember it set me back more than £1,000 – that’s the equivalent of about £2,500 nowadays.
It had no inbuilt memory but just contained a floppy drive and everything you did relied on five and a quarter inch floppy disks. As they had VERY limited storage (about 500k I seem to recall) doing anything useful required you to continually swap floppy disks with the dexterity of a magician.
But enough of the past. Let me bring you up to date – and my current hate.
It’s the person/ people who decided to update my bank’s mobile app.
I received a prompt earlier this week on my mobile to say a new version of the app I have been using successfully, without any problems, for a number of years was available to download.
So I did. No-one can say I haven’t got my finger on the pulse.
Download and installation was a success. Trying to access my finances afterwards was anything but.
I won’t bore those of you still awake all the details but suffice to say there were a few issues which could only be rectified by a visit to a branch.
The woman I saw there was wonderful – helpful, patient and even seemingly amused by my wit and repartee as she got things sorted.
It turns out several things had changed on the updated and supposedly improved app but the bank forgot to tell anyone.