first tulip

attempting to get home this afternoon we found the entrance to the bottom of our drive blocked by a ridiculously badly parked yellow traveller's van.  the young driver said he had no intention of moving and that we should chill.  by now there were some workmen also trying to get to a job at one of the neighbour's homes queueing behind us, and an estate parking warden also trying to reason with him. in the end i decided a woman's touch was needed and hobbled to have a word.  he told me to chill too, and that he was a local (what a load of bull & so what! - but i didn't pick him up on that because he couldn't really argue with access for emergency services being required), so he did agree to move.  he must have had some kind of effect because i seem to have produced a rather calm blip for today.