Wednesday, October 06, 2010

St Cecillia's RC School, North Cheam

Good King Hal (right) showing what a rufty-tufty little sausage he is by simply laughing away being run through the shoulder with a bloody big lance. Mind you, he cried like a big girly when they tried to pull it through from the other side...

It seems there was something about my Mazda car that I didn't realise. Apparently on the bonnet, as you are driving along on the motorway, there is a big neon sign that says "go on, it's only a Mazda, it can't be going as fast as it seems to be, pull out in front of it without signalling, you'll be alright!", and it is only visible to BMW drivers. It happened about eight bloody times up the M3 and also during my brief drive along the M25 yesterday. One woman in a dirty big five-series BMW did it to me TWICE. I had been overtaking her and she had pulled out without signalling, causing me to brake sharply and offer her some choice advice on her parentage. After stopping for fuel at Fleet Services I carried on up the road only for the same stupid cow to do it again! I wish I was rich enough to be a motor car version of the Sea Shepherd (radical environmentalist who attacks Japanese whaling ships). I'd get some harmless looking vehicle, a Morris Traveller or something, I'd beef up the front of the car with about a ton of pre-stressed concrete, pop a Saturn V rocket engine under the bonnet and then target arrogant BMW drivers, which basically covers pretty much all of them. Every time one of the smug gits pulls out in front of me I can simply stick my toe down and slice their teutonic bourge-mobiles in half. Oh, the power! There, I feel better now...
Back to the Henry day... This was, like Blean School the other week, my SEVENTH visit to St Cecillia's RC School in North Cheam, Sutton in Surrey. I had got up at 4am and was on the road with the jolly BMW drivers by 4.30am. I arrived at the school at about 7am and was welcomed in by the friendly caretaker with a very much needed cup of tea. It was another great day at this lovely school - the children were all dressed in brilliant costumes, as were the teachers and teaching assistants. Everything about the day was good, with only one slight change of plan for the afternoon. I had been contacted the day before to be told that the year group I was seeing (Year 4) were due for a visit from a Gaelic Football Teacher in the afternoon and would be going off for a lesson with him. So I would be running the jousting tournament twice as at any one time one half of the year group would be with me, whilst the other half would be off being taught Gaelic Football. I wasn't sure how you teach Gaelic Football. "KICK IT FURTHER!" "RUN!" "HURT HIM!" "DON'T PUNCH HIM LIKE THAT, PUNCH HIM LIKE THAT!" Mind you, you could say the same about me making them take part in a jousting tournament.
The jousts were both very loud and very exciting and were both won by... THE LADIES! This now makes our score:
GENTLEMEN 2 - 2 LADIES
All square again. The next tournament will be tomorrow when I am up at Dean Close Prep School in Cheltenham again.

3 comments:

Recycled Cottage & Garden said...

The drivers in the US are the same, perhaps you need to get one of the Hummers, nobody messes with them, after all its what the army uses. Funny thing is the people I see driving them are all tiny little blond women. Maybe it would also double as a chick magnet for you! lol

Cyberkim said...

You should try driving a Land Rover Defender.
Everyone expects you to drive like a farmer, so they generally steer well clear. The great thing about this is that when you do something unexpectedly polite, like letting a Beemer driver out at a junction, they are almost embarrassingly grateful.

Moonroot said...

Love your idea on how to deal with BMW drivers. You should definitely do it. And let me have a go driving it sometimes. As the driver of a titchy Suzuki Alto I have a lot of suppressed rage regarding BMWs and their arrogant drivers... LOL