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AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 94.

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  As I remain of the view that her 'strong character' and inflexibility has done much to turn a positive relationship into a negative one. There are times in the lives of us humans, when we have to consider carefully which are the most important of many important things in our lives.   That we are going to prioritise, and which are the ones we are going to compromise on. When we cannot have or maintain the things which matter most to us. Of course, for one to properly weigh up and evaluate the issues and concerns impacting on us, requires us to have the ability to perceive those things objective.  This is not a capacity which my dear mother is always able to demonstrate. There are times when she is not able to see the individual trees for the wood.  Times when she sees to be only able to see things distortedly, despite the obvious clarity with which it would appear to someone not suffering from temporary delusion. But let me not dwell on the negative, as it were, since when the

SPANISH GRAND PRIX - HAMILTON AND TEAM MERCEDES MADE IT LOOK EASY!

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  A Big Congratulation to Lewis Hamilton and Team Mercedes for making it another Win at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday 16th August.  No, it was nothing spectacular as such; just a competent and reassured mistake free drive from start to finish.   Probably partly aided and abetted by a timely and intuitive tyre call by Hamilton for his final pit stop.  Which might have offset any disadvantage he suffered from a rather long first pit stop.  As providence might have been expected to have it, Hamilton's team mate, Valtteri Bottas, did not experience the as much of the beneficence of the gods as did Hamilton. Not with a problematic race start which saw him being displaced from his P.3 position on the Grid, and pushed back.  And, although as I have said on previous occasions, or should have said.   A racing driver should not leave winning the race or achieving the highest finishing place he can, until the final laps.  In Bottas' case, not even a fast second pit stop was able to giv