I agree … but as someone who grew up and learned to drive in a very rural area,  I’d also add that it’s a good idea to only drive at a speed that will allow you to stop well within the distance you can see to be clear …
 I well remember driving a friend’s TVR Tuscan down a hill and round a sharp left hand bend, hugging the curve and at quite a pace as you do at 17 if there’s someone you want to impress in the car behind you …
As I rounded the bend I was faced by a woman in a wheelchair who had just crossed the lane to enter a gateway in the hedge just around the bend … she was just opening the gate and to this day I don’t know how I avoided her!
It might be a string of horses, it might be a herd of cattle crossing the road to come in for milking or it might be a woman in a wheelchair … if you can’t see round a bend you should  crawl round it … if there’s something in your path and you hit it you are to blame, whether you think they should be there or not.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hosta,the reason folk "adopt" dogs from abroad is because mainly,in this country it's easier to adopt a baby human. I had dogs since I was 13, that was a classic black/white border collie. I had rough,long haired.setter cross lab. Hubby had Heinz 57. Wanted a jack Russell (Im not keen) or border collie, various rescues wouldn't let us have one. We had quarter acre garden with a bridge over a stream onto fields outskirts of a village (Lingfield) RCPCA inspector put "medium sized garden"I asked what she called today's 30 ft square gardens. Said we couldn't have a bitch because hubbies was a bitch, he'd only ever had this one, didn't want a dog. We ended up buying a border collie puppy, the next one was free,lady happy we knew what we were doing. Met lots of people with their foreign rescue dogs and this is usually the reason. Some people pay huge amount of money to get them over here and quarantine fees
An item on our local news did rather puzzle me yesterday. A lady sobbing about her terrier puppy being stolen. At first I thought the puppy had been stolen from her garden but in actual fact, it was stolen whilst she was looking around a public venue accompanied by her puppy. The reporter didn't seem to question exactly how the puppy could have been stolen. I'd assumed it would have been on a lead and as a puppy, would anyway have been kept fairly close to hand. No mention of the owner being biffed on the head or otherwise made incapable whilst the puppy was stolen. I know there is a problem with pets being stolen and sold on but I still find the above scenario difficult to picture.
I agree about safe speed Dove, but these idiots were across about 2/3rds of the road. Even slow moving traffic was at risk of being damaged by half a ton of horse smacking into it.
Woke up at five this morning realising that I left my favourite cardigan in the hospital, on the seat where I was being treated, on Thursday.
Haven’t been able to get back to sleep for thinking about it.
What is the point of staying awake and worrying? The brain is a weird thing.
Well mine is.
At least it’s recent enough that you might be able to do something about it. Phone call to the hospital? I do hope someone will have put it aside for you to collect. My weird brain insists on rehashing things that happened up to 50/60 years ago, and I’d hoped I’d forgotten!
Does anyone ever lie awake at night thinking happy thoughts? Embarrassing moments seem to have direct access.
I try to mentally walk around the garden as a way to distract myself. I used to imagine showing my Mum around, before she died, but that association became a sad one. I can focus in quite a lot of detail on the plants. The problem is sometimes I start thinking of all the things I need to do and that can be counter productiveÂ
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”Â
I know it's probably the toast landing marmalade side down thing, but why is it that whenever you drop a little bulb into a hole, it always lands upside down? Well they'll have to sort themselves out.
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 I well remember driving a friend’s TVR Tuscan down a hill and round a sharp left hand bend, hugging the curve and at quite a pace as you do at 17 if there’s someone you want to impress in the car behind you …
As I rounded the bend I was faced by a woman in a wheelchair who had just crossed the lane to enter a gateway in the hedge just around the bend … she was just opening the gate and to this day I don’t know how I avoided her!
It might be a string of horses, it might be a herd of cattle crossing the road to come in for milking or it might be a woman in a wheelchair … if you can’t see round a bend you should  crawl round it … if there’s something in your path and you hit it you are to blame, whether you think they should be there or not.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A lady sobbing about her terrier puppy being stolen. At first I thought the puppy had been stolen from her garden but in actual fact, it was stolen whilst she was looking around a public venue accompanied by her puppy.
The reporter didn't seem to question exactly how the puppy could have been stolen. I'd assumed it would have been on a lead and as a puppy, would anyway have been kept fairly close to hand. No mention of the owner being biffed on the head or otherwise made incapable whilst the puppy was stolen.
I know there is a problem with pets being stolen and sold on but I still find the above scenario difficult to picture.
My weird brain insists on rehashing things that happened up to 50/60 years ago, and I’d hoped I’d forgotten!
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”Â