of those who travel half way across the country to attend the North Wales police speed awareness course!
yes - hands up - we had all sped at between 33-39 mph in a 30 mph limit road...
taxi driver at Fflint station knew exactly where I needed to go - "been naughty then?"
but I hadn't travelled the furthest - they come from Glasgow, Brighton, Bath....
in my group was Mr White Hair - who had "been driving 53 years and never had an accident".
White van man, younger, shuffled sheepishly...
Mrs well-dressed-lady from Stafford said she had four boys in late teens/ early 20s - she was always telling them to be careful when they went out in the car but they now have the ideal retort: "you are the one on the speed awareness course, mum!"
North Wales police caught her on a mobile Smart car with camera...
oh well. the trainer was quite jolly and it was worth the £60...and we all left speed aware. street lights mean 30 mph!!
other clubs I have inadvertently not expected to join: special needs club, autism club, coeliac (parent of child with) club....dealing with a (ex)partner's severe mental illlness/mental health crisis club, angry and controlling partner club, emotional abuse/domestic violence...
there is a U.S based child neurology forum which welcomes new members thus: "sorry you have to be here - but glad you found us". there is something heartwarming about getting somewhere where other people understand where you are coming from, people who feel the same pain but are keen also to seek (and give) support and help....
Special Kids in the UK is a great place to be if you are in the UK and have a child with special needs...one club to stay attached to.
And another U.S/UK internet club I regularly visit - here are long-time friends, we have "known" each other (some of us) since 1998 as parents of children with hypotonia...we watch each other's children grow into teens - see ourselves grow too...
A week or so ago I met some lovely ladies from the "divorced and separated" club. we ate dinner, drank - had collective moans and a laugh. it was uplifting...
This week - I joined a book club. this one - probably the first club in a long time - I choose to join of my own free will. No links to my life other than a love of reading. It was great to Read and Discuss. nice bunch of people, meeting in a north London pub....set books to read now for next month...
life moves on, and new clubs to join....
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Oh dear ..Zach is going to be on one of those shortly! Mind you doing 35 on a moped is quite an achievement...!
Hope you enjoy the book club. I went to a local one which was unintentionally all women. We read some great medium brow books such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Then some men joined and it all became about "What's the most obscure, difficult book we can find?" Humph. AND there's no Richard and Judy any more!
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