Holy crap he did it! Austrian Felix Baumgartner has broken the record for the highest ever skydive by jumping out of a balloon 128,000ft above New Mexico. More importantly, he didn’t turn himself into pate in the process. Lyn and I have been spending a brilliant afternoon watching Peter Gabriel and Bob Marley concerts on Youtube, after putting the plan to go to Brick lane on hold (long story) so I only just got back to the headlines. While the very childish part of me is slightly disappointed he did not go splat all over the New Mexico desert, I am full of admiration for Baumgartner and what he has done today. We may not have an interesting new way to make pate, but we dew have a great new hero.

(ever the witty DJ, Lyn just played this on our sound system.)