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ramtops and I are back from ((Chris & Liz)WANOLJ)'s annual party - good company (friends new and old, including spride, beermat, mindygoth, sbisson, marypcb and lproven from LJ; Liam shocking the entire assembled company by arriving in daylight), good food, good drink and fine weather. A glorious night, in fact, far enough out that the stars' glory was only obscured by a few miles of gungy impurities in the Nitrogen/Oxygen mix. Meteors (or so I'm told; I managed to be looking in the wrong direction every time ;) and aircraft stacked over Heathrow, oh, and before dark, a clutch of hot air balloons for reasons of their own.

More even than the usual collection of arsewits on the M4 coming home, but that's hardly news... We really get the worst of both worlds here in the UK: appalling lane discipline and no real legal or cultural acceptance of overtaking on the inside. I could live with either, and sometimes try, when safe, to encourage both by my actions. Not much bloody use - most people pootling along in the middle lane are utterly unaware of their surroundings. I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible for someone to orbit the fuckers without their registering anything odd happening at all.

Actually, that's slightly unfair: there are a hard core of drivers with no connection with their environment at all, but a few do take notice when a car moves pointedly into the inside lane after overtaking them (and, in one notable incident today, someone moved in after I moved in after overtaking a car behind them: someone actually looked into their mirrors! w00t!).

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