Everyday Things I Wish I Was Better at Doing / October 4 2007
6. Driving
I have never been the world’s best driver, but it is not my lack of basic driving ability to which I refer here. More specifically, it is the fact that I am so bad at being able to sound a car’s horn properly whenever the need arises.
My driving instructor Kevin - who was so [...]
The Triumph of Good over Evil / April 18 2007
Just to keep you informed of the minutiae of day-to-day life in our Derbyshire village: the regional simpleton with the interminable, malfunctioning car-alarm has at last had his vehicle removed by the local authority. Yesterday, a man from the council arrived to carry it away on the back of a big red tow-truck. Hurrah!
It had [...]
Numbskull Avoidance / March 30 2007
We’re moving house.
I’ve always been fascinated by people who, like me, don’t always demonstrate absolute mental stability, but at the moment, I’m having great difficulty understanding the actions of an unattractive man who lives a few doors down from Audrey and me.
For about two weeks now, his car alarm has been loudly squawking and squealing [...]
