Plans to attend last weekend’s Jim Clark Rally were thwarted by a rather unfortunate reaction to the latest anti-Covid top-up vaccine, and it laid me low. It’s the first time I have ever taken such a bad reaction to a vaccine so if you’re offered the new Spikevax JN.1 Covid ‘top-up’ just be careful, a couple of other folk I know were badly affected!
Anyway, it meant I watched and listened to events in Duns from afar, and whilst the coverage from the motor sports press and social media was mostly respectful, other outlets seemed only too keen to re-hash bad memories from the past. Having read some of those weekend comments I wrote a column in anger on Sunday evening. Having read it back on Monday doubts about publishing it arose.
On second thoughts maybe I should, if only to correct a few omissions, mistruths and misconceptions which were ‘reported’ back then by some supposedly reputable national broadcasters and publishers!
I’ll keep names and personalities out of it though as rally fans will be only too well aware of those tragic events which happened eleven years ago.
See the next Post ….
