I pride myself on organising my life quite well and anything to do with travel it goes like clockwork but on this occasion everything that could go wrong did go wrong, I was looking forward to my Frome Christian men’s group’s curry evening.

I set off on a moonlit evening to travel the ten miles or so. My dislike or driving at night increases because I find the halogen lights used by cars increasingly more intrusive and for a couple of seconds I cannot see what is ahead.  this is enough time for me to strike the curb or indeed the side of another car. At the risk got annoying other motorists, which I undoubtedly did, I did actually keep to the speed limit at all times.

Although I had been told that the venue had changed from Saint John’s Church to Holy Trinity Church for some reason I assume that I knew whether New Church was. First of all I arrived at the normal venue to see the car park full of a strange cars that I haven’t seen before so after realising that I was definitely in the wrong place I set off to what I thought was the new venue.

I picked the wrong church. Second attempt: In spite of using my sat nav I could not visualize the church venue and I couldn’t find it. Frome is the wrong place to drive around at night with few people to ask plus churches tend not to be illuminated at night.

Parking in Frome is a nightmare at best of times but trying to drive and figure out where you’re supposed to be going in the dark was on this occasion for some reason too much.

I decided to abandon the search as it was already 20 minutes beyond the time that they should have started and I was probably going to miss out on the meal. I made one last attempt and for some reason felt completely disheartened. I finally drove off and stopped for consolation at the pub in Buckland Dinham.

Customers were being served, a process which took some time, and then the bar lady disappeared into another room. I felt I was definitely not supposed to be there so I went off home.

So why this hiatus? You just never know. Was I not supposed to go to this meeting? Had the meeting being cancelled perhaps. Unlikely.  Was it seen by the powers above that I was going to have an accident when I left the meeting? Who knows.

I felt a naturally disappointed but not empty and I did not feel I had missed out on anything of great significance but my brain switch off was a mystery. I will leave it at that for now.