http://topgearaustraliamates.wordpress.com/

It's basic, I haven't had time to play around with it yet, but it's a hell of a lot easier to work with than blogger.com.

THAT'S IT!

I've had it. I have wrangled with this site for months. Most people (including our guru, the MOS-man himself) have lots of trouble posting comments.

Blogger.com sucks. I'm going to look for a better alternative. One that lets you put a paragraph break in, so you don't look like some stream-of-consciousness dipstick who doesn't draw breath.

Hmph.

WOO-HOO!

And another motorsporting Aussie kicks butt & takes names... beating the Yanks at NASCAR, no less!

From his site www.marcosambrose.com/index.asp:

09/08/2008 AMBROSE TAKES FIRST NASCAR WIN AT WATKINS GLEN

Marcos Ambrose has scored his first NASCAR win with victory in the Zippo 200 at the Watkins Glen International road course in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in New York state today.

Ambrose is the first Australian to earn a NASCAR victory and his historic feat on the 2.45-mile road course lifts him into the top 10 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings.

(If this paragraph break doesn't show up on the blog, after the 3rd attempt, I'm going to spit the dummy BIGTIME!)

Now, if Mark Webber would just read the article in Top Gear Australia (issue 2), and make some uncomfortable but necessary changes (ie, suck up to the teams with race-winning cars), we'd rule the world in sport-on-wheels.

(Repeat paragraph-break tantrum here.)

To hell with the Olympics. This is real sport!

My flights are booked!

Kristabella? Annemarie? And anyone else who cares...

My flights are booked. The 3rd Un-Annual Un-MOS drinks, aka the Inaugural Top Gear Australia drinks are on.


I arrive in Melbourne at 10.15am on Friday 7/11 and depart at 12.15pm on Sunday 9/11.

YAY!


Now we need to seriously decide on t-shirts. No, Annemarie, don't worry - the Stig thing isn't a joke to be played on someone who isn't Aussie born-and-bred. It's a mysterious thing, the Stig... who is it? Why is he? How did he become such a Top Gear icon?

And how the hell do you get a job as a mystery-driver anyway???

Oh, never mind all that... I'm going to Melbourne, nah nah nah nah nah nah.

Freebay Alert!

I know, it's a lousy picture, but I can't help it. I'm an office-admin goddess, not an IT goddess.

But check out page... hang on while I get the mag off the scanner and see... BLOODY VW CATALOGUE, STOP FLOPPING AROUND & GENERALLY GETTING IN THE WAY... 76.

(Insert a pause while I rip the VW catalogue out and throw it in the garbage. I do like that sticky wax stuff, though. It's like blutack without the residue. Very clever invention.)

Right. Where were we? Page 76. Freebay. And I quote, "A 1:43 scale Evo X, 'The Devil at Your Heels' DVD and a Porsche pencil/scrapbook set as a job lot this month. All funds to the Leukaemia Foundation, silent bids to topgear@acpmagazines.com.au."

Go on. Bid. I did a bit of charity stuff in Canberra, many many moons ago, and spent a day at a Christmas party for kid sufferers. And it also took the life of the son of a good friend. He was 15. It's a bloody awful disease, so this is a bloody good cause.

And I may have been told by someone who might know (whose initials might be SC) that the bids so far are underwhelming. The Leukaemia Foundation needs better support than that, don't ya think?

I'm sending my bid in now. And, let's be honest, you don't want to be outbid by a pathetic 40 year old single mother, do you? Get your moneybox, count the contents, and then bid. Now.

PS: I typed this about 3 hours ago... then KT rang. I drank more wine while talking to her, so technically any spelling/grammar mistakes are her fault. Coz I'm pissed. And utterly incapable of editing.

Official uniform?

Whaddaya reckon?

I think Benny has come up with a winner. (It's a vast improvement on his suggestion of putting moss on the table for the Inaugural Un-MOS drinks!)