• Lovely day yesterday @ Witley Grange but 3.5 hours in traffic on the way home was a pain. #

• Unsurprisingly wet on the wedding anniversary. Sat in the Odeon Trafford Centre waiting got Pirates 4 to start. #

• At Tatton Park. The weather was supposed to be niceish but isn't. First day of my holidays. #

• Race is now situation normal, but I'm facinated re: the McLaren boys. Both could get an additional place. Webber hasn't done well. #
• No way can people do 20 odd laps on a set of softs. Five stops? Wired stuff. #
• What is this TV producer doing showing rubbish for 4 laps when there's a battle for P1? #

Not one usually for emotive ponderings, but  I’ve been in a bit of a funk this week.

Mmy birthday didn’t go all that well, but I’ve never really been a birthday person – but as you get older you tend to get a bit more sentimental about such things. I’d taken the day off to mark the occasion, but as it transpired there wasn’t an awful lot of point in doing so, and I might as well have just worked through and ignored it completely.

Then a general lack of sleep, probably due to the funk itself created a feedback loop.

I’ve got my annual holidays (or the bulk at least) coming up starting mid-week and it will be good to get recharge for a bit, although a lot depends on the weather. April was stupidly good, May in comparison has been utter pants. There is time for the month to redeem itself – hopefully, or it’s going to be a bit boring for the two weeks.

• Well, crap birthday so far. #

Well, the birthday is a bit rubbish but it has given me the opportunity to catch up on the excellent Five Live early-morning debates hosted by Nicky Campbell – and I’ve just finished listening to the SlutWalk discussion.

The basic tenant of a SlutWalk is women walking in support of being able to wear whatever they like and protest that this should have no bearing on how they are then perceived sexually. It was a very politically correct debate for the most part, with people dancing around the issue – which wouldn’t have been the case twenty years ago. No, twenty years ago I’d wager some significantly more forthright, and probably cutting, views would have been put into the discussion.

However, for all the various nuances, my viewpoint is fairly simple.

If we were living in a utopian society, of course there would be no question of the clothes a woman wears having a negative impact. And even in our obviously non-utopian society, the vast, vast majority of men wouldn’t take the various states of undress as an open invitation to have sex with them. Problem is we don’t live in a utopian society, and there are less than fine, upstanding citizens out there who would and by force. And there is nothing anyone can do about it re: prevention – just like we can’t do anything about murder and all the other various forms of crime. You can punish, but no-one has yet solved the thorny issue of prevention.

Just like we have burglar alarms on our property and just like you don’t easily open your front door after dark, our society demands a certain degree of common sense. That I shouldn’t need to protect my property is exactly the same basic argument as is being used by those taking part in the SlutWalks – problem is that I do. Society is, unfortunately, broken and is, for want of a better phrase, full of scum who will take rather than earn. And I’ll bet that those on these marches hit their four-digit codes as they left their house, and locked their car – making sure there were no obvious valuables visible. In other words, they were minimising the risk. And if you do so for property, which is replaceable, then why would people not extend this paranoia to themselves? For some point of principle? Laudable, but high-ideals doesn’t offer any protection.

The world is a dangerous place to be, and therefore the concept behind the SlutWalk is naivety at it’s most dangerously, and idealisticly, foolish.

• Block voting again wins the Eurovision day. Better result than usual for the most hated country in Europe, i.e. Us. #
• Time to start this years Apprentice. So far the usual bunch of clueless Muppets. #

• Hmm. So You Think You Can Dance got stuck on before Doctor Who. And it's not very good. But the Doctor awaits! #
• Truly great Doctor Who episode which personified the TARDIS. Now to heckle Eurovision 2011. #
• At the voting stage, I have to say Jedward were probably the best. Is that a positive thing? Lena was the best performer but bad song. #

• And it's almost time for the Turkish Grand Prix. All set up at home with the driver tracker on the laptop. #
• Bad start from Hamilton, utterly daft move from Schumacher on Petrov. Looks like an easy life for Vettel up front. #
• What an earth are McLaren doing with Button. Too much lost vs. a stopped saved later. Can't see that working out. #
• Cracking drive so far from Button. Useless TV coverage from the host broadcaster. #
• Button will have to defend against Hamilton and Rosberg. Could get messy, as I don't think Jenson will give way easily this time. #
• Didn't have a choice. Three stop just not the way today, and cost Jenson two places. Some annoyance post-race I'm sure. Alonso surprising. #