We had the Hudson’s, Clive, Allan and Roy & the rest of the Bad Attitude Team in town from WA for a couple of days doing over the speed shops and enjoying some good times.  We wound it up in country Balaklava with a huge bonfire and many good laughs.  In particular it was good to catch up with Jeff Beacham and marvel at his progress recovering from that broken leg – he didn’t once try to even up by running over one of us, but the good natured sledging had everyone in stiches.  Looks like we’ve still got a clutch man for the coming season, although for some reason we haven’t had anyone show interest in what otherwise might have been a vacancy on the team.

The long long ever so long off season has seen us move our race team into a separate shed from the crash repair business and prepare another shed for Trevor Birrell and his Dutch Master team to move into.  His operation was getting too big to work from home.

All that activity and fishing have filled in the boredom waiting for the new engine to arrive.  With still no 1/4 mile track in SA and a new fishing boat in the yard, a life other than drag racing is beckoning over the horizon.  We could get used to it,.  Nah, I don’t think so, what would we do with the new engine and all the nice bits and pieces we have been buying.