2nd November, 2007

If you recall, I left you last week a very grumpy bunny having had an altercation with a Stagecoach Bus last Thursday. It was with a certain amount of trepidation that, on Friday evening, I returned to Cambridge railway station, the scene of the accident. Confirming my fears that I had not heard the last of Mr. Angry, who had jumped to the support of the bus driver, claiming I was driving too quickly, I found a note left under my wind-screen wiper. There is a God though....the message transpired to be from someone offering to act as a witness for me (yaaaay!) and, at the risk of enciting abusive emails from some of you, I have to show you the letter he subsequently sent the bus company....!



Dear Sirs/Madam,

With reference to the above accident at Cambridge Rail Station, Station Road, Cambridge

Bus registration AE51 RYP. Driver Mr M. Jennings.

As I stood with three of my colleagues in Station Road, we witnessed Mr Sandison driving past a line of three stationary buses, queued at the bus stop, with the last one at the rear, blocking the flow of traffic. As Mr Sandison was driving passed the last bus, at the front of the bus que, the named bus, pulled out hitting the near side rear of his car, making a large dent and scrape, it seemed to me that the driver of this bus, Mr Jennings, could not have looked into his right side mirror, before pulling out, as to what my colleagues and I saw, Mr Sandison was driving his car in a fit and proper manner, the comments made to Mr Sandison about people driving Porsche vehicles fast, is not a just comment.

Thank God that it was not a cyclist and that no one was hurt.

I am an experienced driver of thirty years.

Yours sincerely,


Mr L Cesaro



Turns out L Cesaro is a taxi-driver. Six of his colleagues, who spend much of their day with my new best friend hanging around outside the railway station yelling abuse at the buses, have also offered me their support. And Luigi has secured the job of driving me down to Heathrow the week after next as I wing my way off to our India Forum.