Sunday 3 June 2012

Of Celebrations and parallel parking

It's been a while since the last update, but (and I'm not trying to be tedious here) the British weather celebrated Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee in the only appropriate way it could. What a wonderful day for a street party (love the name of the shop)!

Roll on the Olympics! What marvelous advertising for British summer weather. 
With any luck and a repeat performance: Usain Bolt will become the first sprinter in history to achieve a world record for the 100m dash and the 100m swimming freestyle at the same time! 

It's just been that sort of day. On a round trip to the shops I came across this remarkable bit of parallel parking. Only slightly more impressive if the car had been up a tree! Note the undisturbed hedgerow in front, behind the Merc, and even between the Merc and the verge! The driver was unhurt: and initially traveling in the opposite direction, further more he managed this at his first attempt. Impressed or what? 
Bye for now.
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Err Just when I thought it was safe to be impressed by the Merc's driver's abilities there was this slightly less successful attempt about a hundred yards / meters away...

Curiously this one ended up on the track you can see. The entrance for which is 50 meters / yards away.  It would have been so much simpler just to drive to the entrance to the field and turn along the track...