So, there we were, in our third (or is it fourth?) week of self isolation and just about to open a bottle of wine, when the doorbell rang and our nextdoor neighbour informed us that someone had reversed into the rear corner of our car......twice.

This was sometime after 11pm and our car was parked off the lane, in what should have been our front garden but is now a two car hardstand. The fact that our lane is only about 50 yards long, is uphill, is quite narrow, and goes nowhere, for something like this to happen beggars belief. Not many neighbours so the list of suspects was short so I started knocking up the neighbours to see if they had any visitors.

Then the thick plotted. The young man across from us noticed that his new Nissan Navara, which was parked well off the driving line of the lane, had it's offside front wing displaced to such an extent that it popped the front light cluster and even cracked its windscreen. It looked as though we got of lightly which we can confirm this morning.(Touch wood)

Meanwhile back at the scene, the young man reversed down the road and headed off in hot pursuit although by this time the perpetrator ( good work used on all the Police, Camera Progs), had about a 10 minute start. He was looking for a small, black car but he didn't have to go far as the car was parked up on the pavement about 100 yards away having careered backwards across the main road through the village.

Two had run off but the young female driver was wandering about as drunk as a skunk. It took an age before a single manned cop car arrived during which time we tried to keep the young lady on the scene but she escaped over a footbridge with the young copper having to drive back around the village to find her.

The Police did get her but by this time, all our neighbours were out wondering what the commotion was all about. So, what with the copper having to take statements and standing well within 2 metres of us, what with us trying at times to restrain the young woman, what with about 6 of our neighbours wandering about, our isolation lockdown has been blown.

By the way, she blew almost 100 on the breathaliser.

Randa

You were still up and opening a bottle of wine at gone 11pm?

Shameful behaviour. The mind boggles.

Yes, it was to be the first night since lockdown that we were not going to partake and we lasted until half way through a recording of an old Frost episode before our spirit broke (pun intended).

Had to drink it at 2am this morning after all the action had died down.

R

What I find remarkable is that the damage to the rear wing of her car, a 2018 small Toyota, where she reversed into the Navarra was only light paint damage yet the Navarra is well and truely *@+&ed.

However the damage to her other rear wing where she grazed our Touran is well damaged yet it looks as though we'll be able to T cut most of the marks off our car.

Randa