Searching for water and more: BBC Radio Devon Motor Rally

Fitz (L) and The Range CEO Chris Dawson (R), in front of Chris' Rolls Royce

“Hi”, I said to a hotel receptionist in the lobby of a busy Plymouth hotel. “I’m from the BBC and, well, do you have any water I can use, please?” I asked, holding up an empty water container to prove my point and continued, “We’re putting up some flags up on The Hoe and we need some water for them, please”.

Looking back, I can quite see why I got an odd look as if to say “What the hell are you on about? Flags don’t need watering”. Sensing the confusion, I carried on, “the flags have bases and we need to weigh them down”.

Sky F1 Paint - sorry, Media - Day 2014

"Ahhhhh, that's gone down my neck” squeals Simon Lazenby as David Croft and Johnny Herbert appears from nowhere and ambush him with a copious amount of red paint as the Sky Sports F1 anchor is knelt down composing a masterpiece for the camera.

 Croft is covered from head to toe in black and green paint like a member of an army on a secret mission with bad camouflage, and Herbert has bright red paint and a purposeful look on his face.

“Annnnnnnd that went right down my back and into my pants!" Lazenby shrieks as everyone struggles to contain themselves from pointing at the poor bloke.

Mirela

On Monday night I attended an advance screening of Natalie Pinkham’s documentary The Lost Orphan: A Home For Mirela at the Vue Cinema in Leicester Square. It was quite a change to the average cinema (says the person who last went to the movies to watch Senna and CARS before that), what with it having escalators and several screens.

Anyway, The Lost Orphan: A Home For Mirela follows on from a Channel Five programme aired  in 2011 titled The Lost Orphan: Mirela’s Story where the Sky Sports F1 pit-lane reporter went to Romania to track down a girl she had met a decade earlier while volunteering at a children’s institution during her university’s summer break. Mirela – then a three year old toddler – captured her heart, and Pinkham vowed to help her out in any way she could.