This is my new pal, Jenson Button.

At least, I assume he’s my new pal, since I appear now to be sponsoring the Vodofone McLaren F1 team.
It’s difficult to get wifi in most of the places we’ve been – and then when we do get it it’s often v slow or just cuts out.
In my determination to get the pictures up on the last blog update, the internet connection kept dropping out.
Oh well, I thought, it’s a one-off so I’ll just switch on the mobile data on the i-phone for a moment to finish the upload.
After all, Vodafone have a deal where for £5 you get 25meg of data per day and then pay £1 for each meg after that.
They even (helpfully) send you a text to tell you how much you’ve spent when the £5 runs out.
Trouble is… the texts take a couple of minutes to come through.
Four minutes later, I got 3 text messages.
The first one told me I’d used up the £5.
The second one told me I’d spent £25.
The 3rd one said I’d spent £43!

I switched off the data as fast as I could – then helpfully got a 4th text message to say that my 5 minutes online had cost me £96.
£96 FOR 5 MINUTES!

5 MINUTES!!

I assume I’m now an official McLaren Sponsor?
I shall have to have a strong word with Jenson next time I see him.
Top Tip: stay off the mobile data.