I don't recall what the price of petrol was in Sweden the other week...

... but in Finland, it was £1.88/L which seemed rather a lot. I suppose with a population of 5.7million - roughly half that of London - things aren't going to be cheap.

Out of all the places we go, apart from the usual logistical snags we have when setting up the magnetiser station, Pikkala in the summer months has taken over the number one slot from Rognan up in the Arctic Circle now that we no longer operate there. Our work in the winter in Pikkala is best illustrated by Prysmian's promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImSZiM7lpzI - one I've posted before.

We elected to catch Finnair's early morning flight home because the alternative was a later Ryanair trip. Three hours in their torturous seats against three hours in a half-empty A380-900 was worth getting up at four o'clock for. I had a middle row with bags of leg room and an overhead locker, all to myself.

Back home, I was straight into making brackets and welding in order to complete Learned Counsel's SDAR in readiness for a race at Anglesey's circuit in North Wales.

It was almost complete and by the Wednesday we wanted to do a shake-down at Snetterton, but in the heat, no one felt like donning suits and helmets and there was still work to do. The next race is at Cadwell Park and the setting up doesn't benefit from rushing. Incidentally, the corner weights were 116kgs for both at the front and 136 and 137kgs at the back, and the gross weight came in at just 20kgs over the formula lower limit. Not bad at all.

I managed to get a couple of hours in on the Special but stupidly cut the panel I was attempting to reproduce in mirror image, a few inches short. Rather than start again, I'll weld the section back on again.

Returning to an aviation theme, Counsel and I popped over to the annual Fathers-Day Fly-in at Priory Farm in Norfolk. Looking around the hangars, we came across this tailwheel version of the Zenair Zodiac. Quite a pretty little aircraft - nice proportions with hints of the CAP 10...

... though with current temperatures, a couple of sliding vents in the canopy wouldn't go amiss.