Three Car Trick!

Friday was a strange day: three jobs to cover which made it difficult to get any writing done, then, when I was finally able to get started on writing up my stories, a ghost from the past appears in the office (after closing time, too). Stan Lawson, the self proclaimed rebel champion from Pennywell who fought the local council (and, inevtiably, was evicted earlier this year), has returned from exile in Bury, Lancs, and called into the office.
His travails have clearly affected him - there's still all the old bluster and the defiance, but what you see in front of you is a frightened old man who sadly got carried away with all the publicity and who found his life spinning out of control. Everyone, save Stan, knew it would end in tears - and it has. It's still very sad to see the end serult, though.
As I ushered Stan out of the office to attend another job we banged into Billy Fitzpatrick, who lost his council seat in May and has been a bit of a lost soul ever since. Billy was a councillor for 23 years and he's found it very difficult to find work since his enforced 'retiral'. I feel for him and I hope he picks up something soon.
Felt a bit down after these two encounters and perhaps my mind was elsewhere when I had a wee mishap. I am in the fortunate position just now that I can use any one of three cars - my wee Citroen, which I use for work; a Picasso which we use for all othe rthings and Gail's Saxo (lying idle til she comes home from New Zealand).
Anyway, to cut an increasingly-long blog slightly shorter, I must have left the Citroen in gear when I switched off (something I never do) so when I turned the engine back on it ploughed into the Picasso. No great damage done (wee Citroen is a wee tank and shrugged it off, elegant Picasso suffered the indignity of a broken number plate) but quite a shock. Running late for the final job of the day now, jumped into Gail's car only to find the battery dead! Back into the PIcasso and just made the job on time. Too many cars, too little time!
Wasn't sorry to see the end of CHildren in Need Day, but we all get days like that from time to time ...