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Thank you so much, Meadowmufn. I went to bed last night with an uninspiring black & gray HazzardNet and I woke up to familiar colors. I'm still getting used to some of the layout differences, but that doesn't seem such a chore now I'm not working in monochrome. I know it was my suggestion to lose the uppercase letters in the menus, but it looks much better now. ETA. I forgot to mention that the featured topics having tiles at the top of the old format listed forums seems like a good compromise (when I click on Forums) I've only had a very brief look at HazzardNet on my phone today, but it also has color again!

I have all four of the original movies and the Lindsay Lohan reboot on DVD. I saw at least one of the at the cinema when I was a kid, but not this one as it's older than me! Skipper - don't start a new thread for each movie. Keep franchises together. All the Herbie movies can be discussed here.

I'll only be able to get home from work in time for the second half of each episode, but it's great that they're showing it. Hopefully, they'll get further than when it was shown on the now defunct Forces TV channel a few years ago. I think they only got to season 3. At the end of tonight's episode, the announcer said something like, "You can see more of Lucas and Beauregard at the same time tomorrow." 😀

What a race we had in Italy today. Charles Leclerc pushed team mate Lewis Hamilton onto the gravel on the first lap dropping Lewis to 10th. George Russell took the lead at the start of lap 2. At the end of lap 2, Charles went off at the final bend, hitting the barrier and bringing out a red flag. Lewis made a good restart, but the real story was Kimi Antonelli moving through the field. With his grid penalties he started 19th (of 22), but was already up to 12th at the restart. George had a few laps swapping the lead with Max Verstappen, but behind them Kimi was coming through and had made it up to second by lap 16. He then battled his team mate for first and second places. Lewis spent a lot of the race trading places with Oscar Piastri, but probably should've swapped tires under the virtual safety car which came out at just over half distance. Kimi and Max did pit, and quickly made back the places. Kimi took the lead for the final time on lap 50 (of 53) to become the first Italian winner of the Italian Grand Prix since Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966. He was joined on the podium by George and Max ahead of the two McLarens and Lewis. Pole sitter Pierre Gasly finished seventh. I can't remember the last race with this much overtaking, and to see Kimi make it from 19th to first was amazing. He now holds joint second place behind John Watson for win from farthest back. You can see the highlights here. Only a week to wait before the Spanish Grand Prix from Madrid.

I'll hold my hands up - I'm not great with change. I've lived with the new layout for 48 hours now, and it's still not gelling with me. I completely understand the need for the upgrade and appreciate the work put in by Meadowmufn, but the site feels like it's lost its identity. The default scheme on my laptop is a really bright background (white or almost white) with gray text which I find hard to read. I switched to the HazzardNet theme which allowed me to select Dark Mode, but that loses the HazzardNet header. On my phone, dark seems to be the only option, and again the header is missing. Going to Forums now shows a load a tiles which take longer to scroll down and aren't as clear as the old list format.. Finally for now, I don't like the menus being all in capitals. Capital letters on the internet always feel like shouting. I remember when the site moved from vBulletin to the last layout and it took some tweaking. Hopefully, it'll be possible to put some of the blue and orange back into the site without too much work.

Qualifying for tomorrow's Italian Grand Prix was tight today. Mercedes have decided to take grid penalties for exceeding their engine component allocation for this year for Kimi Antonelli's car, so he's starting near the back in his home race. Liam Lawson is standing in again for Isack Hadjar at Red Bull, and he's also taking grid penalties. That meant that two of the top teams could use the car being penalized to give a tow to their other car. In Q2, Oscar Piastri blocked Liam, which earned him a 3-place grid drop. Lewis Hamilton had been quick in practice and Q1, but scraped through to Q3 by a thousandth of a second. That must've been a relief as a Ferrari driver in Italy. The real story of the day was Pierre Gasly getting his first pole position after nine years in F1. It's one of those occasions where the whole pit lane seem happy that an unexpected driver achieves something remarkable. His Alpine team are currently 6th of 11 teams, and he's just had his Monaco podium finish belatedly taken away after appeals from other teams. George Russell will start in second. He apparently lost a chess game to Pierre 15 minutes before qualifying and thought he'd beat him on the track. Oscar got third, but will start in sixth after his penalty, promoting the Ferraris to third and fourth. You can see the qualifying highlights here. You can see what a six hundredths of a second difference looks like over a lap with the ghost car comparison of Pierre and George.

...it's always the same! 🙂 Nervous

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Just after Dolly's death was announced last week, the King's Guard performed a tribute outside Buckingham Palace.

Field (1060 West Addison if I remember my 'Blues Brothers' correctly)

It turns out that there's a place called Parton in the north of England. After Dolly's death, someone added stickers to one of the signs to read "Dolly PARTON R.I.P." - see the story here.

I've never used Spotify, but it looks like they offer a free option with no credit card required. It includes ads and has a limited skip function. An individual subscription is $12.99 per month rising to $21.99 per month for a family of up to six at a single address.

Sadly, his death was overshadowed by that of Dolly Parton, and they were the same age. I know him best from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' which featured Susan Sarandon 16 years before 'Thelma and Louise'. He was also in 'The Hunt for Red October', but he looked so different that I missed him when I first saw it at the cinema.

Yes, as well as racing cars, Brian Johnson also does this...

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