Life for Lola

I was thinking the other night. We were driving home through Bray and we went by Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant and the pub he has now taken over too. I was wondering if the ginger chef would be turning the village into a gastronomic theme park like Rick Stein has done to Padstow. I also wondered what the late Beryl Reid would have made of it all. I should imagine she would have championed molecular gastronomy, she would have been first at the bar for a mars bar gin and tonic.

I also noted, moving away from celebrity chefs, how sinister other people's cars are in the dark. I don't mind them in the day when I can see the contents but at night the blackened windows put me off the old mirror, signal manoeuvre. There may be a nice young chap on his way to a ball, an old lady taking the risk of driving after a sherry with her bridge pals or...and this is the bit that worries me......a headless horseman!