.....in the last twelve months...and I'm so sorry.
Thrown the towel in with the driving job. Covered thousands of miles, mainly incident free. Got sick of other people's driving and parking in the the process.
Highlights:
Driven loads of different vans. Merc Sprinters, Vauxhall Monarvos (or something), various sized Transits, Fiat Doblos - The favourite ? The big comfortable Sprinters - fantastic van, comfortable, quick, good radio, easy to load/unload. The worst ? Fiat Doblo, slow, five speed box, horrible seats, crap turning circle. The Sprinters are the Dog's whatsits though, I did damage one by reversing into a wall and breaking a light cluster, and ironically the only one that came to an involuntary halt (outside a hospital). Met loads of great NHS staff at surgeries and hospitals big and small, visited some great places - Farndon Surgery for instance - beautiful. Some superb radio programmes on R4.
Lowlights
Busy town surgeries - (Rhyl is awful) Ignorant staff at busy surgeries. Lazy staff (real jobsworths you wouldn't believe) - crap driving and occasional boredom. Poor money for the effort involved, especially the responsibility.
The "Damascus" moment for me was in Vietnam, early morning, sitting on a mountain track, miles away from the world's troubles watching the sun burning the mists down in the valley and sucking lightly on a cinnamon leaf...I need more of that.
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