1208 Mind How You Drive

All the vehicles were travelling at quite high speeds for a junction like this, and I was half-expecting someone to come to grief. Luckily, everyone must have been very alert.

1806 What a bright Boat!

0905 River, Canal and Space Centre

2101 What are your chances?

Wat are your chances of surviving this deadly crossing point by the betting shop?

Every so often, we read in the papers of some sort of miracle cure where someone gets their sight back, and we have to be delighted that someone has the chance of this new life. The trouble for some people is that they can't make sense of what they see, which must be incredibly disconcerting. This often comes to mind when I'm at some complicated junction in the road, and I realise how well I make sense of it, while someone disorientated by a sudden inflow of visual data would probably find it too much. This flat photo is more confusing to me than actually being there, and being able to hear the various engines of the vehicles, being able to feel the slip-streams of the vehicles as they fly by, smelling the exhausts, hearing the tyres on the road, the boom-boxes within and somtimes the irate shouts of the occupants. I am quite used to interpreting this complex information, and, above all, surviving in relative safety.

Hope these are not famous last words!