After all the years I’ve been using and buying stuff off the Internet, I got hit by credit card fraud for the first time today.

Got a call from a company verifying part of my card details, fine I thought and left it at that. Then started thinking, hadn’t ordered anything that hadn’t been processed in the last few days.

So I called them back and asked a bit more about who the company was and a bit more about the order concerned. Unfortunately I couldn’t hear the name of the company – some underwear place according to the nice lady on the phone. As it transpired, someone had my card details, home address and mobile number and had ordered £180 of rollneck T-Shirts. All to be sent to an address in North East London.

Needless to say that has now been cancelled, as has my credit card (new one on the way). I’m now racking my brains to think where the details came from. I can only guess its from some website somewhere, but goodness knows.

Just back in West Lothian after our stay in Jedburgh for just under a week. Went back to a place we had been a couple of years ago, which is almost in the middle of the town and has cracking views of the town and beyond.

Had an easy time, I read through two or three books, reviews to follow. We also went visiting. Went to the Hizzy room in Hawick, had lunch in Cats Coffee Shop which also happens to be part of a bike shop and popped over to Kelso for a couple of hours.

Was great to see a lot of bikes in the area around Jedburgh, and got a wave from a group of folks on Harleys when we were in the Coffee Shop.

Didn’t do any big thinking, but such is. Sounds like old MartinS is going through the thirty something stuff too. I’ll be commenting on that soon.

Traditional weather, but a disappointment when you are paying the priviledge to see rain fall in a field. For those of you not in the know, the latest round of the British Superbike championship came to Knockhill last weekend. The racers zip around the track in a couple of sessions to set their fast times and decide their grid positions.

The first qualifying attempt finished just as we got to the track, getting up and ready and to the track for 10:10 or so just wasn’t going to happen on the first proper day of my holiday so we saw the other race classes out and about during the following hours.

The second round of qualifying for the 125cc machines came after the break for lunch at around 2 O’Clock and ran for about half of its allotted time before the heavens opened with big rain (you know, big rain drops) hail stones and a good bit of thunder rolled in for good measure.

I got soaked, then in a gap in the rain got back to the car to get the umbrella and the waterproof jacket then retrieved the rest of the family just before the rain came back on. We retreated back to the car but gave up after about half an hour and drove out of the circuit at about 15:30.

I mostly enjoyed the day, but missed the variety in sound of the superbikes which were due to come out later. The downside of going on the Saturday which is the day before race day is that slightly less is happening. The benefit is that you get to park within the circuit and it is generally quieter.

No guarantees in Scotland for outside events, so dependent on the weather, even in so-called summer months.

Thats it, I’m off work for two weeks. As per usual, things ran to the wire at work, leaving loose ends dangling in a generally unsatisfactory sort of way.

June for a variety of reasons, wasn’t a good one for me, with the last two weeks blighted by a nasty bout of a kind of cold flu virus which has made life challenging, to say the least.

I hope the next two weeks prove the tonic I need, or will at least give me time to think about things.

On a lighter note, tomorrow is a visit to Knockhill Racing Circuit for the British Superbikes qualifying. As is traditional, the weather has turned awful with wind rain and general unsettledness marking the event. All we need is snow and fog to round off the day.