toe-day only

I whacked my toe at some point on Friday morning or Saturday night. I don't really remember what time it was as I'd woken up in the middle of the night and was wondering about without turning the light on - hence why I whacked my toe.

It hurt when I did it, obviously, but it was only when I was getting back into bed that I realised I'd done some proper damage. As I slid my foot into bed it felt strangely wet, so I turned the light on and saw I'd left a streak of blood on the duvet.

We're not talking pints of the stuff here, but an inspection of the toe showed I'd actually broken the skin and it was all bruised and angry looking. It wasn't really painful anymore (well, it smarted when I poked it) but it was a bit of a mess, so I whacked a plaster on it and went back to bed.

When I got up on Saturday morning, it was a much less comfortable experience. I had to take the next load of stuff down the recycling place, and that meant putting some trainers on, which put constant pressure on my poor damaged pinky.

I plastered it up again, as it wasn't in any way healed and when I got back and removed the plaster it was a bit of a mess. It looked like it was mainly plasma that had leaked out, rather than blood as such, but it was definitely a mess.

It's not doing too badly now - I still get a bit of a twinge if I bump it, but nothing too bad. Certainly I'm not hobbling while I walk :/.

The Valencia Grand Prix was on over the weekend.

Well, actually, if you're a sports fan it was a bit of a mad one - Wimbledon is ongoing of course, and the world cup is in full swing (I'm not really interested in either, but understand that that manically depressed Scot is still 'in it' and that Eng-Ger-Land received a trashing from the Germans and so are very much not) but it was a bumper crop for us petrol heads as well, because the Assen (Dutch) MotoGP was on as well.

Assen was on Saturday and I have to say, it was a bit dull. This is a remarkable turn-up for MotoGP, where it's almost always a great race with loads of overtaking and daredevilry. But as they hinted at on the commentary, the layout of the circuit doesn't lend itself to overtaking and while it wasn't processional like F1 can become, it wasn't as exciting as usual.

What made this even more bizarre was that Valencia is usually incredibly dull. This is it's third year and in both previous years there have been only a handful of attempts to overtake, most ending in failure. Well, bizarrely this year the race was actually quite interesting. I mean, I don't think I'd go as far as to say it was up there with the likes of Canada, but it was a lot better than usual. And Mark Webber had one of those horrible moments that the drivers must dread - check it out on the BBC site if you haven't seen it.

Next up is the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The bikes seemed to do well around the new arena circuit (it was apparently designed with bikes in mind) so now we get to see if it adds anything to F1 as well.

And speaking of petrol heads, a new series of Top Gear kicked off on Sunday. Mixed reaction from me - the bit with Jezza in the Reliant Robin 3-wheeler was funny, but had that overly set-up thing going on. The joke was he kept rolling it, which was good, but every time he did some celebrity just happened to be there to flip him back over, which was odd.

But then they got a new reasonably priced car and did the thing of inviting a bunch of celebs to come and have a go, in order to put some times on the board. This was good and funny, but felt oddly rushed - like they'd only decided to do it at the last moment. When they last changed the reasonably priced car I'm sure more celebs turned up to have a go.

There was also a bit on James May driving up the Iceland volcano, which was good, but seemed a bit short. The news was better - the last few series it seems to have weirdly veered into being the TG boys try their hand at stand-up, where it's better when it's actually about cars and proper news and then they can make funny comments.