The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

Er, frankly not what I expected. Here’s the breakdown:

2% about James May and the Jeremy Clarkson
5% childhood
5% getting to Top Gear
13% Top Gear pre-accident
75% ‘the accident’

Don’t get me wrong, of course I expected it to be about the accident. But much like the Walk the Line movie about Johnny Cash, I expected a big crescendo [...]

I bought this book to read on the plane to Croatia. It’s probably perfectly suited to flying reading, but unless your plane has been delayed 3 hours don’t bother!
May’s quirky style means each rant, or chapter, is no longer than 5 pages [edit: not being in the UK, I didn't know these are reprints [...]