Snapshots of my journey to work

[triskellian]

There's a little blue Fiat that lives at least part of its life in the sidestreet opposite my house where my own car lives. The reason this puzzles me is that I often pass it coming the other way when I'm driving to work. I work in a village in the middle of nowhere with no night-time employment I can think of, and there's no day-time employment visibly available in my local sidestreet. I suppose the Fiat's owner is either having a relationship with someone in my work-village and living in my sidestreet, or vice versa, but I can't help being tempted to write a polite inquiring note and tuck it behind the Fiat's windscreen wipers to ask.

There's a dark red BMW with the number plate 'LAZIO 88' which shares part of my route to work. I recognise 'Lazio' as the name of a football team, and assume '88' means '1988', but what happened then? Is the driver a Lazio fan, and that was the year they won the <mumble> cup? Is he a Lazio hater, and that was the year they suffered crushing defeat at the hands of his preferred team?

There's a middle-aged man in the village who walks his small daughter to school every day. He's short and grumpy and reminds me of my dad, in a way I find rather sweet. He carries his daughter's brightly-coloured rucksack for her.

There's an elderly man with a tiny white terrier dog, who lives just round the corner from where I work. Whether I get into work at eight or half past, he's always walking his dog on the grass verge. Today, in the rain, the dog was wearing a little coat.

I enjoy my journey to work. I like recognising fellow-travellers and watching the progress of the fields and gardens I pass. It's poppy season at the moment, has been for weeks. It started with the little wild red poppies, just a few, scattered on the verges. Then, as their numbers started to increase, the big bright pink cultivated ones appeared. Now there are complicated multi-petal poppies in lots of shades of pink and lilac and red mixed in with the simpler ones. Their flowers look almost like roses.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

You beat me, I've been meaning to write an entry like this for months, now.

Even though I alledgedly hate commuting, I enjoy watching the fields and woods flit from season to season, and watching the different wild flowers come out.

And yes, spotting regulars on the route is always fun. The lady who dirves OXO 6, a bright yellow sports car. The man in Sonning Common, who walks an enormous fluffy dog (possibly a bear, according to Onebyone). The Smart car with the ridiculous blue blobby paint job. Each has it's usual space and time on the drive in.

My favourite car to pass is a green estate of some kind - I don't know what. But its radiator grill is outlined in thick, violently orange plastic, making it look as if it has bright lipstick on. I have no idea why - I've never seen another car with anything similar.

[triskellian]

Oh! I love the idea of the car with lipstick ;-)

I've been meaning to write this for ages, too. I finally did it today because I saw almost all of the regulars on the same day. The only one missing (that I can recall offhand) is the enormous American jeep-thing coming the other direction, that is particularly hazardous to encounter under the bridge, where the road narrows and the jeep takes up about two-thirds of the available space.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

particularly hazardous to encounter under the bridge

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