Yesterday I was clipping a laurel bush that has grown massively large when a neighbour stopped to chat. He told me about an altercation he had with someone the day before.

It was a complicated story and Iwas unable to follow it all but, in essence, theother driver signalled incorrectly, confusing the teller of the tale.All we need remember is the aggrieved driver is seventy eight and the other driver was a soldier.

This did not deter the seventy eight year old from following the soldier to his house and making his complaint. Some verbal sparring followed before the soldier told him to learn to drive andwas met with the riposte that he could drive, he'd learnt in the Army.

Using some emotional intelligence, the soldier asked 'Shall we just leave it?'. Then they both shook hands and the day did not end badly after all.

InThe Times todaythe case of the Carmarthen blogger is reported. Briefly, Carmarthen Council has taken offence to the blogger's predilection for filming sessions of the planning committee, using her mobile 'phone.

This is another of those sagas that run and run. Along the way, she has been arrested andreleased.She and the council are embroiled in a wordy battle that looks as though it's going to be costly.

The Times and Derbyshire County Council case established that the State should not sue its citizens and should not pay for its employees to do so. In effect, the blogger, as a taxpayer,is funding the claim against her and is paying for her own defence.

The case concludes today.Judgement will be reserved. I'll watch out for it?