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This has happened to me 3 times this week. After coming out of the supermarket with my loaded trolly and waiting for cars to stop while I cross on the pedestrian crossing, I seem to be invisible. Once the car is loaded, trying to get out of the car park is a nightmare! People just cross the road, either talking on their mobile, whilst pushing a trolly filled to the brim and totally ignoring the cars who are trying to exit the car park. I know we all want to get the shopping over and done with quickly, but surely people should still make sure that there are no cars approaching. I'm getting a little fed up of having to do emergency stops, just because people don't look where they are going and think that they have the right to step out in front of cars. Anyone else had this problem?

Sorry I had to giggle to myself yesterday when I literally got to help a little old lady across the road. I know that its the whole boy scout thing about helping the elderly cross the street but its the first time in my life when I have literally done it as never had the opportunity before.

Have you actually had this opportunity or are you still waiting for your little old lady to turn up?

And yes she was polite and did thank me.

Thinking about cynthias clangers brought back some old memories of toys ,can any one remember having a Hula Hoop, Diabalo, Spinning plate, and the fancy whip and tops we chalked patterns on? The Hula Hoop is back in with the children of today and I wish I could still spend ages doing it like we used to! Ah this getting older is no picnic!

There were several genres and each in their own way were individual!

The 'Greaser' look, this was for the biker boys and girls, black leather, smelling of oil, 'heavy metal' music and the 'gigs' i did for them usually featured 'born to be wild' by Steppenwolf, loads of Black Sabbath and Status Quo ending with 'Land Of Hope And Glory', honestly!

Then there were the 'Skin heads' Reggae, Reggae and more Reggae, jeans worn with braces and 'Doc Martin' shoes, otherwise known as 'Bovver Boots'!

Next on the social scale were the kids of '60's hippies, Musk oil and petunie oil were the perfumes, long hair and clothes from charity shops except for expensive 'Kaftan' coats were the fashion.

Moving on we had the 'new look' kids, they bought their clothes from 'Dorothy Perkins' and 'Top Girl' and looked lovely, makeup was pastel and sparingly applied.
'Tank Tops', 'Boob Tubes' and 'platform' shoes were their domain!

Well dressed guys wore flowery shirts, flairs, cravattes and wore 'Brut' unless they were 'hippie', jeans and t - shirt were then in favour!

So they were well dressed, usually, and enjoyed good music, that was to change when the 'Punk Years' arrived in the late '70's', but that's a new story!!!

I recently passed my CBT and I started it on a manual but changed to an automatic half way through as I couldn't quite grasp the clutch control. I then really enjoyed the experience of an automatic, but I would like to drive something a bit flashier than a scooter, so I'm curious as to whether there are any automatic motorbikes that aren't scooters and where they're available from?