Change of road conditions - no more middle lane, no more dual carriageway. Time to concentrate on the way ahead and negotiate with those going at a different speed or in a different direction. Life is like that sometimes. Can't be bad - means being back in the world of hurly burly, rough and tumble, cut and thrust, means the reality of the storm, means being sensitive to, understanding and reacting to subtler signals, means there is something at stake - something will be gained or lost. Game on.

I think that I had better dip my toe in the blogging pool.

What is the middle lane like? Well today it has involved going as a guest to the opening of new stables at a riding school in South Cambridgeshire, drinking tea, eating cakes, entering competitions to 'guess the weight of a horse', 'guess the number of sweets in a bottle' and 'indentify the mystery items in a box by feel alone'.
Life in the middle lane is totally chilled out - none of the heavy lifting that clogs up the slow lane while the press-on urgency of the world's turbo-charged passes by your elbow - you can see it all without having or feeling any need to join in.