Waiting to breathe .....officially !

Still a little bleary eyed from the loss of one hour to summertime, I thought I'd kill some (time, that is !) whilst waiting to go for a breathe with an interested singer - a gifted tenor who lives nearby - so many tenors around here - it must be the air....?!! Earlier, I was climbing up into the 4 x 4 to drive Anna L wih the boys, to school and dagi's (? spelling ?) when one of the builders renovating the house remarked "Aren't you a bit small to be driving such a big vehicle ?" So of course, I had to tell him that when I was working with an opera company in the U.K. some years ago, I was a singer AND stage director - two for the price of one ! A regulation was that anyone on stage management had to be able to drive the large lorry transporting the costumes, scenery, lighting, etc., etc., so I became a qualified H.G.V. (heavy goods vehicle) driver - a wonderful experience. Whenever we wanted to get through a town quickly, I'd put on my choicest mini-skirted dress - even the police traffic controllers would let us through with a look of "Oh God, a woman driver", and we'd shoot through unhindered ! In my youth I was a Rally Driver with a friend whose Father had the Bristol car franchise and we were allowed to try them out - greeeat cars, similar to Saab, built by aero engineers...Now you're finding out some of my choicest secrets - never assume -- remember.....k..p b g... x I've not checked the text, watch out for fumble finger mistakes ...!