Grandstand Seat

Every morning and evening outside my house there is an almighty jam up of traffic. It's very entertaining to watch but less so if you are daft enough to be in it. The hooting starts at about 8.40 am and 3 pm when the parents are chauffeuring their little darlings to and from school. Its the same cars every day. You'd think they would learn to keep away.

As you can see from the picture the road is very narrow and there is a three way junction with a bollard on the corner to stop cars mounting the pavement and crashing into push chairs. Cars wont reverse so it all locks solid. We cant get out of our driveway and some cars reverse into our drive to get away from the chaos. The white car should back up but won’t. The beige car is about to scrape along the bollard. Several of them are hooting.

Two London boroughs straddle the junction and can't agree on a traffic management plan. Then, when they almost reach accord the residents vote against it. Makes Brexit look straightforward.

When we can get together again I will be selling tickets to come and watch from my attic window. Except you wont be able to get near because of the traffic.