I hope they name a coffee after Dee Caffari
If she wins, I hope they name a coffee after Dee Caffari. On November 9th, Dee and 30 heroes start the 2008 Vendee 
Globe round the world SOLO yacht race - the one Ellen M nearly won last time. It calls itself the world’s toughest yacht race, though I would argue it’s the world’s toughest race - full stop. Three months on your tod, in a wild beast of a boat, flat out, 2000 miles from any help in the roughest seas imaginable. No thank you. Good Luck Dee and I bet your PRs are cheesed off with the Times Body & Soul section today. They have hidden your inspirational interview behind an uplifting piece about Killer Heels. For Gawds sake, Killer Heels! Here is a woman about to do something amazingly courageous for Britain, yet the Times’ wan answer to the DM’s Femail, think that some slapper teetering in daft Jimmy’s is more important. Je ne comprends pas as the Brit yachties say on the Sable d’Olonne.
One excitement this week, in a week of not many excitements, is that I win 2p on Osborne staying in post. A couple of people whose political savvy I value were convinced he was for the chop, but I said he’d survive. He hasn’t done anything except be a twit. So a gent’s wager of one penny was struck with each of them. Well he has survived and all eyes are back on Mandelson, so pay up chaps! If you can’t afford it there is this Russian yachtsman who might sub you.