Well, they weren’t exactly near misses, more ‘nearly near misses’. Yesterday evening I decided to walk to Morrison’s, one of the nearby supermarkets. Just to get some full milk for our breakfast coffee. I’d bought the milk and was on my way home when the incidents occurred. The first was on the zebra crossing near the roundabout just by the supermarket. Cars are supposed to stop for pedestrians on zebra crossings, and I was half way across this one. But a small red car just drove straight through. Now, had I not had the foresight to think that this particular car wasn’t going to stop I would have stepped onto the crossing in front of it, and been flattened. Having escaped this I then continued walking and got to the pedestrian crossing on top of the bridge. This crossing has lights on it. I pressed the button and waited for the pedestrian light to go green. As it went green I looked down the road and saw a car approaching at fairly high speed. ‘That’s not going to stop on the red,’ I though to myself, so I waited on the pavement. And I was right, this car went flying across the lights without apparently noticing them at all. Had I been talking on my phone, or otherwise not paying full attention, I might have stepped onto the road when the light turned to green for me, and then once again I would have been flattened. For two very similar incidents to happen in the space of a couple of minutes is rather worrying, no? On the rest of my walk home I was super careful. They say that things happen in threes, I hope not, I might not be so lucky the third time.

The streetlight went out at 7:45 this morning. We are moving in the right direction.

We saw Atsuko and Andy the other day. Apparently, Atsuko has been making hummous in Japan. She reports that she found it difficult to buy chick peas over there, is that true?

We got this thing for mother the other day.



Quiz 388
A person who ‘knows his onions’ ….
a) often has wind
b) has probably got an allotment
c) is an expert on something
d) doesn’t know anything about fishing

Yesterday’s was c)