Archive for February, 2009

Granny Annexe February 2009

I am – so far – one of those irritatingly blameless drivers who hasn’t had a mark on her licence for years. Indeed, I was so conscientious recently that I took a refresher driving lesson at BSM to polish up my what are known as “skills”. When it comes to driving, at least, I’ve always thought of myself, rather smugly, as Mrs Responsible. I love driving. And although, sadly, I don’t wear, like my great-aunt used to do, a Driving Hat, I feel its psychic presence on my head as I tootle along the roads.

So when I got a letter from North Wales police saying I’d been caught speeding in a built-up area, I hastily accepted the alternative to having not only to pay a £60 fine, but, more importantly, not to have three points whacked on to my licence. I could, instead, attend a Speed Awareness Course.
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Granny Annexe - January 2009

My latest middle-of the night panic is, of course, the recession. (I wonder if those of us who wake up at 3 am gibbering with anxiety shouldn’t have a chart on the wall which shows, by means of lights  - rather like those old Metro maps in Paris – which of our friends are also awake biting their nails at an ungodly hour? That way we could ring each other up and reassure each other, instead of enduring minds humming with angst until the early hours).
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