POSTCARD FROM MIKE PAUL IN GERMANY

FORMULA STUDENT - Yes, they seem to take this competition very seriously - presumably a matter of honour when you come from a car-making town like Stuttgart! I couldn't make it to the ICE ELAC meeting in Budapest in May as it was quite honestly a bit expensive and clashed with another meeting that I had. I hope to meet some of the other ICE european members at an IET meeting here in Stuttgart in October. A few months back I had some British visitors, as Peter Richardson and Sam Oldroyd were here to try to persuade us to make more use of Groundforce Shorco products to support our excavations, so I found time for a beer with them in Stuttgart in the evening.

Still plenty of work on here, and we had a profitable 2008, but no-one's making promises of how 2010 will turn out..!