Driving, stretching, knitting, baking, being alive
Did I tell you we bought a Landrover? There is a justification for a four by four vehicle up here on our hill and we also need something from time that will tow the trailer. I test drove one (not a new one, an oldish one!) to establish that I was happy to drive it, we bought it and then very conspicuously I did not drive it at all. I am not generally a driving wimp. I happily drive on motorways and up and down the country and in all sorts of weather conditions. So why wasn't I driving it? I think I was just a little bit nervous that I would meet someone coming up our single track steep hill and, instead of merrily reversing up hill, down hill or around the corners, as I do in the cars, I would make an idiot of myself. But Ian is away working at our son's house in Manchester today so I had the Landy and, without anyone to watch me, it was time to have a go. And it was totally fine, although I did not have to reverse downhill around a ...