Sunday, November 14/2010

Many options this morning. Regretfully we pass up the high mass at Westminster Cathedral and the choir. And we don't join the royal family at the cenotaph for the Remembrance Sunday service. It's a moving ceremony with veterans and bands and wreaths laid by the queen and all of her children as well as the prime minister and other political party leaders. We do get to follow on television though, remembering that when we watched two years ago there were still a very few World War I veterans left - but no more.

The program we've been waiting for, though, comes at noon, just after we've had brunch - the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, final race of the season, with Red Bull's Vettel on pole. Great coverage, with lots of pre and post commentary. It's good to have a final race where the driver of the year is still undecided. There are four statistical possibilities for the championship, with Spain's Alonso - not our favourite - the statistical favourite. But the race is a good one and the new champion is a tearful young Sebastian Vettel.