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  .... the winner of the 2021 Formula 1 Driver's Championship is still undecided.  Yes, winning a battle in a 'war', unless it can be considered and is 'the decisive battle', may give the winner an advantage in the eventual outcome of the war, or campaign, but it does not normally foretell who will be the eventual winner.  And so it is, in this the final battles of the current Championship campaign between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, and their respective teams. By using a tactical team strategy involving his team mate, Perez helping  him, Verstappen, to create conducive vortex he needed  to help catapult him to Pole position, in the Abu Dhabi Y as Marinas Circuit.  Team Red Bull has undoubtedly placed Max and themselves in an advantageous position to begin the race on Sunday.  Winning that race, however, is something quite different from taking Pole during Qualifying. Especially in a Championship-deciding race such as this one. There are simply too many quali

  And more often than not, those words will be negative, such as saying she does not want something or she does not want to do something.   This has meant that, more than ever now, my dear mother, for probably the remainder of  the end of her life, is going to be more isolated and confined in her body; and her inner world.  With her thoughts, her desires and aspirations remaining known mostly only to her; except for those times when she desires things and is able to find effective means of expressing them to the beholder/s. Is this phase a traumatic interlude in the closing stage of the life of  my dear mother?   Is it making her sad, sorrowful and distressed? Or is she, according to the level of her cognition, her insight into what has befallen her, resigned to and is at relative peace with what she is making of the experience?  Probably especially is she is not forcefully made to comply with what others, her carers, family, friends and relevant professionals consider to 'be in he

  ...The plentiful debris cleared  and teams and racers' communication chattering had abated. so, what is there to be said about the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, which was fought out at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit?  Shall we not declare it, 'the Grand Prix from Hell'? Or, 'the Endurance Grand Prix'? Yes, there were seemingly endless breath-stopping adrenalinised moments, times when we watched the fearless and apparently fearless racers.  As they rapidly made their way through the undulating corners and valkyrie-inhabited walls surrounding circuit.  Racing, they were, as if they and their gallant 4-wheeled steeds were programmed to avoid hitting and crashing into this and that opposing shock-absorbing wall.  Even though there were occasions when glitches did penetrate the symmetry between some of the racers and their cars, team control centres and the circuit, and leading to the race-stopping embrace between car and wall.  And the ensuing VSCs, and SC and Red Flagging a

  So, how will the 2021 Formula 1 Drivers Championship battle between Lewis Hamilton, the 7 times Drivers World Championship winner, and the indubitable Max Verstappen, be played out during the penultimate Grand Prix of the season?  Will Max win it, or will Lewis take the honours and move onto the final race, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with the slimmest of lead over his unyielding challenger? Well, for the answer to both questions or scenarios, we shall have to await the outcome of today's, Sunday's race at the virtual reality-like Jeddah Corniche Circuit, which is due to begin at 17.30. Sometimes, it is really much better if we are able to calm our anticipation and live each moment, each day and week at a time, and as fully as we are able to do.  That way we are much better placed to enjoy what is transpiring and have more fun and/or peace, instead of simply focussing all or most of our thoughts on the final event. It is by taking this approach that we can better relish and sav

  More anticipation of her, my dear mother, only making it to the edge of her bed, and, with legs that are no longer robust, knee and ankle joints which have been worn down with age and seemingly over-use, and now no longer dependable, generating too much pain.  She risks sliding off her bed and not being able to make it back on her feet, and her bed; on her own. However, this, like the journey we all must travel between the proverbial 'Sunrise and Sunset', is one which can only be terminated in the demise of my dear mother.  As I watch her slow down in her cognitive processes, in her speech, in her motility and in her mobility, I find myself pondering the question: ' how and when will my dear mother end her journey? This, at present, is not a question I am able to give an accurate answer to.  How can I, when my dear mother is still able to surprise me by seemingly at will, make her own way to her bathroom without her walking frame, even though it is almost painful, definit