Route critic

 It was a lovely warm day. Urban-Cub had left home very early to get to work and Silver Vixen and the Gorse Fox were on duty. Ellie was as good as gold and was soon washed, dressed, and had finished breakfast. The Silver Vixen had Pilates this morning so she took Ellie to child-minder, on the way.

The Gorse Fox had a quiet hour at home. The first task was to install Ellie's car-seat in the Fiesta. He would, after all, have to collect her later.

Being Wednesday, and back to a normal(-ish) schedule, the Gorse Fox headed across to Worthing for football. We had a good game, which was tightly fought. The Gorse Fox's Cornithian spirit got in the way. We now play a 3-touch game; i.e. you can only have three touches of the ball. Any additional touch concedes a free kick. Twenty-five minutes into the game with the score at 0-0,  the Gorse Fox intercepted a ball then as he moved it about he realised he had touched it 4 times. He shouted at the ref, and admitted the infraction. Everyone on the Gorse Fox's team stopped. The other team didn't and ran on through and scored. We waited at the spot for the free-kick to be awarded, but the ref said he had played "advantage"/ We were 1-0 down. The second half became a torrid defence of the goal-line. In the end we conceded twice more, but only pulled one back.

The Gorse Fox had a quiet afternoon with some code and also booking in for an "Experience Day". He is now scheduled to visit the Top Gear test track in October and drive a couple of Aston Martins. The Silver Vixen, meanwhile, was having afternoon tea with Cousteau-Cub at a rather nice restaurant in Bosham.

When the alarm went off, he headed to LA to collect Ellie. She was excited because it was the first time she will have travelled in Grandpa's "little car". On the wa back we chatted until we got close to home. At this point the Gorse Fox uses the Nort Bersted by-pass, whereas Urban-Cub and the Silver Vixen tend to stick on the side roads.

"Where are we going?" called the voice from the back. 

The Gorse Fox explained that he uses this route. 

"Well," came the voice, "the girls go the other way." he was informed. 

The Gorse Fox explained that he preferred to use the bypass. There was a long pause.

"Well, I'm not sure I'm happy about this." said Ellie, bring the conversation to a close.