Feb 25th

The morning is visciously cold. H's car roof is covered with wonderful, surresl swirls of ice, whilst mine has nodules of solid ice adhering to the surface. It was a shame to power up the heaters to thaw them all out.
Met H in Croxley Green and headed out to follow round the test routes. They seemed pretty forgiving, and he shouldn't really have a problem. He glugs down Red Bull all morning. He seems to regard this as a sleep substitute.
After him I head home. Good news on my answerphone ( I had left mobile behind), H's dad has coughed up for the course, so another £500 heading my way ater in the week. After this it's off to Maidenhead. I get S to drive most of the way to Wycombe, and she copes reasonably well.
In the evening, R4 seem to be devoting their schedule to the Tories. An interesting profile of Cameron, and then a much trailed analysis of Thatch and her aftermath from Michael Portillo. How likeable he is, has engineered himself to be almost. This was a man who's election humiliation was judged one of the three great TV moments of the last century. Were he still involved in politics, one might accuse him of the highest degree of cynicism, but I suspect he was actually shocked by his unpopularity, and resolved to demonstrate that he was not an uncaring monster, which overall he has done rather succesfully.
In the news another bloody woman killer was convicted of the murder of two women, and suspected of involvement in perhaps 20 more. I thought of Milly Dowler a few weeks ago, and couldn't remember her name. Now it transpires that this guy is the cheap suspect for her murder. I will always remember the photos of her messing around as she did her ironing, and wondering who could be so dernaged as to destroy such a happy life. Now it looks as if we know. Yet another macabre tale appears to be evolving in Jersey, where a child's body has been discovered in a children's home, and police seem to suggest that they are searching for more. Whispers become louder by the hour that a cover up will be found to involve people at the highest echelons of the Jersey government