I very nearly had a head on collision with a Fire Engine today. I got off the motorway and as I rounded the corner, the Fire Engine was on my side of the road, overtaking a right R Sole who refused to pull over to let him pass. The Driver of the Fire Engine saw me just in time and swerved back onto his own side of the road, ploughing straight into the back of R Sole's car. Had I been a few seconds earlier, I doubt I would have been posting this.
The guy who was my first brother in laws bestman left the navy and settled in Ireland where his wife came from. In 1982 my sister and her husband had been for a visit and she was telling me and mum about it and how they used to go to this fabulous pub called the "Drop in Well" as we were talking it came on the news that it had been bombed and and 17 people had been killed, a few days earlier they could have been among thevictims