December 2015

This month Justine was rescued by the fire brigade when her car rolled into the river. Thankfully, having rushed into a friend's house, she didn't have to witness it crossing a busy road and carrying on down the verge before teetering over the river bank, Italian Job style, saved only by a little, lone bush that snagged on the underside. The fire-brigade arrived with lights and sirens and 8 men (sadly neither young nor strapping) and 20 minutes later Justine drove away with a little dent on the car, and a reprimand from the local police officer for not making good use of the handbrake. By that time she was late for a meeting to welcome four asylum-seeking families from Iraq to our village, who all knew her as 'the one who left the handbrake off' by the time she arrived. Elizabeth penned her this useful reminder.